It’s been a decent week. I’ve been active, there has been no chaos or drama, and I’m getting things done. I continue to feel better and have more energy as I get my diabetes under control with the new regimen of insulin. My blood sugars are still far from normal, but they’re headed in that... Continue Reading →
Eleven Weeks of Trying to Write and Keep On Keepin’ On
I haven’t posted an author’s update since my father died on January 8th. I want to thank everyone who gave their support and expressed their condolences here on the blog. It was a hard time, and in the immediate aftermath while I was grieving, those thoughts and comments helped. They really did. I wrote the... Continue Reading →
It Happened This Morning, an Hour Before Sunrise
January 8th, 2021: My father has died. It happened this morning, an hour before sunrise. Last Saturday, January 2nd, Dad went to the hospital with symptoms in line with a mild-to-moderate stroke. At first, we believed the great distress he’d felt at the passing of his sister — our beloved Aunt — a few days... Continue Reading →
Fresh Approaches to Old Problems
December 23rd, 2020: It’s been a week of putting things in order and trying fresh approaches to old problems. In coordination with my wife, I’ve rearranged the household schedule to accommodate my writing with fewer distractions. Primarily this involves clearing weekdays for heavy drafting and editing by transforming our weekends into shared days for chores... Continue Reading →
Shifting Gears
December 16th, 2020: This week didn’t beat me down or come with negative surprises, and that’s a welcome gift after the last few. The calm allowed a return to shifting my writing gears towards finishing and publishing novels and novelettes in the coming year. In support of that goal, I made a major decision over... Continue Reading →
Watch Out For That…
December 9th, 2020: It was a weird week with stretches that were fairly nerve-wracking. Things started with an ear infection that pained me for several days. Then I was notified via snail mail that new funding had become available for pandemic unemployment. While that’s a great thing, the government keeps changing its story almost daily:... Continue Reading →
2021 Goals
December 2nd, 2020: My wife and I had a good socially distanced Thanksgiving, and fun with our Marvel movie marathon. I was rested and wanted to put in some writing after that, but a chain of unrelated problems and annoyances that required my attention and time started over the weekend. Nothing huge and terrifying, and... Continue Reading →
Self-Care, Chores, Panic and Planning
November 25th, 2020: It was a mixture of self-care, chores, panic and planning this week. The self-care and chores were part of an effort to address issues contributing to my stress and high anxiety that resulted in panic attacks last weekend. I cleared my head by taking a few days off and then tackled some... Continue Reading →
Anxiety Annex
November 18th, 2020: I got The Forever Halloween to a completed sixth draft Thursday night, finishing it at almost 10,400 words. This became a seventh draft after my wife’s proofread and a sweep with an editing tool on Monday. I sent copies out thereafter to a handful of people that were interested in reading it,... Continue Reading →
November 5th to 11th: Harm and Healing
November 11th, 2020: A lot happened over the last week. Nationally, we had an enormous, tense and drawn out election that still isn’t fully resolved… but is resolved enough that I’m very happy with one result. ;-) On the personal side of things, my trio of problems from last week are no more: My wife... Continue Reading →
October 22nd to November 4th: The Forever Halloween
October 28th, 2020: I’m neck-deep into writing a short story, and I must finish it by Saturday! I started last Thursday, and there has been heavy revisions and editing as I go… but the inspiration is flowing. :-) It’s unfinished at 4,300 words with three of its five planned scenes done or mostly done. I’m... Continue Reading →
October 15th to 21st: Adventure Seed Time
October 21st, 2020: I finally got the draft done for the Arium Kickstarter commission on Sunday. Working to craft five short adventure seeds was a much bigger challenge than I thought it would be when I signed on to do them back in August. Being assigned the peculiar writing theme of “Gonzo” for open-ended role-playing... Continue Reading →
October 8th to 14th: The Grief Wound
October 14th, 2020: A lot of the past week was spent working through the loss of my friend that happened last Sunday. Wednesday I felt emotionally clear enough to write about our friendship and posted it as a eulogy on Facebook. It reached a lot of mutual friends that didn’t know he’d passed, and some... Continue Reading →
October 1st to 7th: Losing a Friend
October 7th, 2020: 2020 continues to be relentless. On Sunday, a friend with a long history of diabetes and kidney failure died. We hadn’t seen each other in person for a few years, but we’d done a lot together prior to that. We read bad vampire books aloud by his campfire. He was at my... Continue Reading →
Microfiction
Last week, I gave a purely personal update on how I was doing after a long silence. This week’s check-in is a more nuts and bolts talk about something I write frequently and post a lot of on this blog and elsewhere: Microfiction. I’ve begun a new approach to my weekday microfiction writing. Up to... Continue Reading →
Yes, It Is a Hard Time to Write
I’ve been dealing with a lot since I last posted an author’s update in the middle of May. I’ve been depressed with all that life has thrown at me at once. I’ve been angry. I’ve lost my motivation, and I’ve regained it. But through it all, I have kept writing. Maybe not much by some... Continue Reading →
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