So, the Warrior Writer Workshop. I was scared it was going to be too similar to Todd A. Stone’s Novelist’s Boot Camp, but reading the book, Who Dares Wins, I realized the Blood Lessons and the Circle of Success rang much truer and allowed me to take those ideas beyond the writing and see the…
Yup, Summer’s officially over and the kids are back in school and that means I have more time to myself again. How can they both be in middle school already? Despite appearances to the contrary on the blog, I have actually been doing some writing related work. You know you’ve neglected the blog for too…
I’ve been floundering along for a while with some of the keys on my laptop not working properly. The buttons, F5, 5, T, G, B, -, and [ as well as weird things with the left butterfly or command key. It kept working on and off and it was very annoying. Back at the beginning…
So May is also a month of insanity around here. So why did I jump on the RD May Wri Mo bandwagon? Cause I’m a sucker for wallowing in pain and suffering with as many other people as possible? Maybe. More likely, it’s the fact that I work better knowing others are working at the…
In photography terms, a focus point refers to the small brackets, lines or circle in the middle of an autofocus point-and-shoot camera’s viewfinder that indicates where the camera is pointing. In broader terms, I like to think of it as what I’m currently putting my energy toward: be it a project, a routine to reinforce…
I honestly don’t think it’s quite that bad. It just feels like it. I’ve got a lot of stress going on in my real life (with the boy’s never-ending headache(s) and the girl off at camp on her own) plus I’m hating how the second part of my opening chapter is going. It feels like…
Sorry, no fancy image today. I’ve been so tired this week. It’s crazy. We camped out Saturday night and I didn’t sleep well, as usual. Only it was worse than usual, because my legs ached from hiking to the bathrooms and back several times and they decided to cramp. There was also a lot of…
Don’t worry, I’m not going to wax nostalgic about an 80s movie here. But the title was fitting for how I’ve been thinking about this blog lately… It doesn’t matter what I say in this post, it’s more a matter of a need to “say anything” at all. I just need to post something, and…
I now have less than a week to finish and submit this short story. EEEEEEK! Where the heck did September go? I’ve been up against multiple deadlines this month and I’d hoped to have this story finished well before now. However, that’s definitely not the way it has worked. The characters have been not cagey,…
13 Things to Avoid When Changing Habits As you can tell from Monday’s post, habits and routines have been on my mind alot. Leo Babauta from Guam has a great blog titled: Zen Habits where you can go see his comments on these pitfalls. He gives permission to reprint his posts, but in…