Writing is paradoxical. Great big universe of endless possibilities with the only limitation being one’s own imagination, and you have to be confined to a chair and write it all down on a little black box. Coupled with the overwhelming fear of not knowing how the project’s going to turn out or how it will […]
Summer of 210000 Words
A Playful Mojave Undertone & A Veteran Pitcher’s Savvy
The shakes started my day. Didn’t get out of bed for two hours. Sat there checking stats. I let one bad day on a 40% completed project get the better of me. Nobody Successful Goes Undefeated. Even Muhammad Ali Lost his title fair and square at one point. So I showered, met a friend for […]
Dixie Meringue & the Seven Heaven’s Eleven
I watched a section of the Magnolia tree fall outside the bedroom window during the storm. It was just one of those awesome, random acts of moments that I happened to witness. Life Has Been a Lot Like That Lately. I was cruising through the day’s 3,500 words when the shivers came over me. Fears. […]
Father’s Day – The Summer of 210,000 Words Can Wait a Few Hours
It’s about an hour until the OldOld Man comes and picks up me and my mother for Sunday dinner. We’ll be sneaking down back roads out in the country as we head out to some out-of-the-way place to eat dinner and watch the water roll on by. We don’t do it because it’s Father’s Day. […]
Have to keep movin’ to keep movin’
45 minutes, alarm to walking. 11.4 miles of walking – broken into segments of 7.3 & 4.1 miles. The runner’s high got me through the day. But I looked at the damned stats again. Luckily, they were encouraging. Bad, bad habit. I know I can get that alarm to walking time down to 30 minutes […]
Borrowing time from tomorrow to pay for today
Midnight. The only light in the house is coming from the monitor, letting me know that there’s only 14 more updates to perform before it shuts down for the evening. Well, and this iPhone 4. Come Hell or high water, midnight’s becoming the shut down time. I’ve borrow from too many tomorrows to keep today […]
I workout before I touch a computer because the chicken came before the egg
This morning I spent an hour in bed curled up like a ball, checking web stats over & over again as if my looking at them will change them, all the while paralyzed at what else might not go my way. I’m not Superman but I think I get strength from the Sun. Preface: so […]
210,000 Words and Redemption to Be Found – #210K
Starting Wednesday, June 15, 2011, I begin my Summer of 210,000 Words. I’m scared, I’m nervous, I’m excited. I’m rolling the dice. What Is the Summer of 210,000 Words? While I sort out the next phase or two of my career, I’m completing most of a huge first stage to a commerce / branding project. […]