In Episode 6, I talk about making deadlines and watching as they sweep past. No audio tests these episodes, just breaking up the...

I would say the passing of another month so quickly comes as a surprise, but then I’d be repeating myself from the last several years. Looking over the first four weeks of the year I can’t judge whether I’ve done a good job or a bad job. I finished a novel (+1), wrote two flash fiction pieces (+1), and am halfway through a short story (+1). I also didn’t meet my 31k goal for the month (-1), got sick and didn’t write for 9 days...

I mentioned last week that my goals for the writing project spanning August through September folded like a stack of cards in the wind, and the plans that surrounded them. I also mentioned a few previous projects that just went belly up in some way or another. Plans just explode sometimes. My reasons is pretty common but sometimes things do just go awry without the screw up being on your part. This is inevitable and it’s not that they...

Mentioned in a previous post, I’ve now officially lost my contest with Andrew. I didn’t reach my 100k words and the novel didn’t take off. It’s still sitting comfortably at 13k words, waiting for me to come back to it. This isn’t the first writing challenge I’ve lost, but I’m going to make it the last. I love this process, and I hate the disappointment I feel when I fail due to my own action. A writing challenge like this...

Monday morning I did something I haven’t done in a long time. I killed every single game on my main computer. Around 350GB’s worth of data went poof and now my computer is sitting defragmenting and wondering what’s to come. Why did I decide to remove so many games all of a sudden? I haven’t been able to resist them is why. This past weekend was supposed to be a game free window of writing, projects, and efficiency. I fumbled that...