Balance in All Things

It is hard enough in the modern age to maintain any kind of balance in life. Most of my acquaintance work 50 or more hours a week while taking care of family, housework, and trying to have some semblance of a social life on top of it. Leaving them with maybe six hours a night to sleep,...

Recovery

So nearly two weeks out, here are some further thoughts on life post NaNo as they have come to me. Which is to say these revelations have not stopped coming since I shut down my computer on the 30th and accepted the fact that I was not going to get another word out in the...

Me and Mort

As far as weird obsessions go, I have more than my fair share. Little things I can't even name here because they are so ingrained into me that I cannot separate them out of my normal day to day routine. Other's however, come out at me screaming. To the point where some far away sane...

The Artist and the Monster

How’s this for a writerly metaphor? Upon some early morning reflection, after I found that sleep was done with me for the night, this vision came to me of how it really feels when you’re a writer. And putting it against what I have experienced over the course of my life from the time I...

PASK

The Portable Author Survival Kit, aka PASK, is a tool that I have found to be indispensable during this past month of wild noveling. It is a tool of my own invention, or at least my own interpretation of a common contrivance for us long distance sort of writers. Basically, it is a document containing all...

Thank You

It has been almost a year now since I began posting on this blog in earnest. Maybe not as diligently as I had hoped when I started, but I have been steady and true in my own way. Adding posts as they come to me. Which if you knew me you would realize is a...

Things You Learn While Writing

May first has come, which means the first round of Camp NaNoWriMo is done. And let me tell you, there were a lot of asses being kicked this past month. Mostly my own, as it was the one that needed kicking. But as a direct result, I also happened to kick ass in NaNoWriMo terms...