Well, what started out as a pretty awful day has turned out pretty great! I spent I-don't-know-how-long at the computer trying to write. Just when I'd put on some music and gotten ready to just dig in and get something done – the fucking alarm clock went off. Between it continuing to sound for the…
I'm feeling irritable tonight. Mostly, I think it has to do with my not being able to come up with the right details to do work on all the story ideas I have. I'm distracted, my mind is spinning, filtering ideas, trying to come up with the right combinations. I don't know if I'm just…
For some reason, when I think about all the houses we lived in when I was a kid, the one that holds a sense of nostalgia for me is Finsbury. I'm not sure why. Avalon was the party house; 20th Street was just sort of there (and the funniest memories I have of that place…
I did OK today. I did some research for the two-story ideas that I came up with yesterday. But between exercising them working on jewelry orders, I had no time to do anymore planning. I'm really trying to stop the excuses. The more I make them, the deeper the rut seems to get. The bigger…
We rented Identity last night, with John Cusack and Ray Liotta. It was a great movie! It was another one of those movies the need anything, unmanned, why can't I come up with something like that? The answer to that could be because I don't try. For like a month now, I've been doing these…
DJR gave me a great idea! When reading a book, he analyzes which techniques the writer uses. It seems so simple, but could be invaluable. One thing I am looking forward to when we have a new place is not having the television in the same room as the computer. That way I can have…