1000 Days

    “You really are a pilgrim?”  The extraordinarily large man emphasized the noun and not the verb in his astonished query.
“You don’t think I am old enough?”  Tritti asked.
“No, no, no, darling.  You arnt, but thass not why.”  The man’s puffy hands rapped the reins and the two kabs shambled up.
Tritti watched him goad the [...]

    “You really are a pilgrim?”  The extraordinarily large man emphasized the noun and not the verb in his astonished query.
“You don’t think I am old enough?”  Tritti asked.
“No, no, no, darling.  You aren’t, but that’s not why.”  The man’s puffy hands rapped the reins and the two kabs shambled up.  Everything about this round [...]

It’s working.  It’s really working!
Writing every day has helped me to recognize and begin to conquer three things: not writing every day, flat passive voice, and quality over volume.
The first and most obvious of these three is that I am writing every day.  The proof is right here, but I am also writing more elsewhere.  [...]

While Gane’s bimonthly trips to the ah’Taconscienteen spike kept him lean of body and broad of billfold, they rolled tidal on his spirit. No hres he instantiated scoped his fluctuating emotions. Gane was certain the problem lay with the nature of his visits not the frequency or timing. One month wasn’t down [...]

Yesterday’s review felt a little like cheating. I haven’t established any rules about what content makes it into these little sessions. To be sure that review was significantly more meaty than all of the first week of effort.
It feels unfair because it is meta-writing–even if it’s original for me. I wont be [...]

“Stranger Than Fiction” with Will Farrell, Maggie Gyllenhall, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, and–look for him–Tom Hulce is done well.
Before I internally remarked on the plot, theme, tone, acting, humor, or whatever one might normally consider first, I thought, all these actors should be pleased. The smoothly done quirk and humor permeates the [...]

After my first bonus post last night I was expecting to rock the keyboard this morning with competence and verve.
I won’t regale you with the whiny Dad events, suffice to say there were events and they were Dad-like in relevance.
Let’s give it a try…

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Think of the most improbable place people [...]

I really do love the morning.
The trouble is that it comes so early in the day.
For writing it’s great.  For this daily journal it’s been suitable.
Being so close to the start of the work day puts pressure on wrapping up faster than I would like.  I suppose I could use that force as encouragement to [...]

It shouldn’t surprise me how often writing tips, advice, and strategies drift to the top of the various aggregators’ lists. The whole world seems to be writing now. Last night I came across something that I’ve hoped for for some time. I am writing in it now.
Not that you could tell.
DarkRoom is [...]

I have been avoiding writing about Bringer for the past couple of days following my struggle to get Johnathan into a boat.
My reluctance is due to my desire to avoid a flat out inventory description of Johnathan.  It may be time to bring that to an end.  I need to have an mug shot of [...]