1000 Days

When I was much younger, still a boy in Scouts, our Scoutmaster took us out to a local airfield to get our Flying merit badge. This kind of thing was his thing. He brought rattlesnakes to our church basement meeting room and set them free on the floor among us boys. He [...]

I’ve been thinking about doing a regular post to sum up the week’s aikido practice. Recounting my experiences would give me a nice career log as well as an excellent forum to teach back to myself. (Is that the word ’study’?).
Recording my progress now might give me useful perspective in the weeks and [...]

Real writers are voluminous writers. They have completed novels, abandoned novels, and unwritten novels. Never mind writing more than one story in a lifetime or year, they write more than one a month. Sometimes after tens of pages they give up on a story because it turns out to be going nowhere. [...]

The outstanding looking Scrivener software for the Mac stumbled into my Internet surfing yesterday. As a result I began googling ’scrivener for windows’. Most of the hits were people wishing there was such an app, but a very few proposed candidates. I installed and played with three contenders: yWriter, Liquid Story Binder [...]

Yesterday was not what I’d planned.  I meant to write about the dialogue of Coupling.  Watching Star Wars: Episode II last night reminded me.  It turns out that no matter how much glamor you throw up on the screen to dazzle the audience, you can still fail big because you can’t get the right words [...]

It is fair to say that a fourth daughter is taking it’s toll on my daily writing habit. When I haven’t been writing short things or bad things or reworking old things, I’ve been writing nothing. While the first three styles don’t conflict with what I do here at 1000 Days that last [...]

A song called “Wang Dang Doodle” off the definitive Howlin’ Wolf collection got me to thinking about atime in college when we were coming up with our hobo names. In the song are several Blues names.
There are a ton of name generators out there. They can tell you your porn star name, your [...]

Somewhere here in the next couple years it’s going to be time for me to write a children’s book. Or rather, a series of children’s books destined to become wildly popular for both their authenticity and their unabashed look at femininityism.
We have four daughters. People ask if we were trying for a boy. [...]

I was writing yesterday–enough to count, but not enough to be finished enough to post here–when I was looking for a word.
I found it in spades and then got lost in this site.  You should too.
http://phrontistery.info/index.html

OK, bitch.
That’s tough talk from a three day loser. Take it for what you will.
I just finished an email to newly in touch old friend in which I describe my recent and record string of fail as an unplanned hiatus or an all out fuck up. Since I’m only accountable to me I’m [...]