Monday Update
Haven't updated in a while, but nothing terribly exciting. Today was shit, Comcast threatened to shut off my service if I didn't pay them, which sort of throws my grad school registration plans into the toilet. I've had to rethink a bunch of things, but the biggest one is how to live on less. I can't afford to keep living the way I was when I worked at the law firm -- I make way less money now, but I've been going on as if everything was the same. So it's no surprise that my bills have fallen behind and my credit score is shaky. So it's time to take some action.
Also, I've been looking up different writing contests. I think I will enter some of the paying ones, to add to my grad school fund. And also to get me producing work and getting my name out there. I have been falling down in my commitment to myself to write, to get published and produce work. In a rush of afternoon caffine today, I scribbled out a working plot line for the novel, which has hopefully, for good, fixed the plot issues that I hated before. It always seemed so cliched and convoluted in places, so forced, with such easy plot devices. I think I've simplified it down, and sometimes, simple is better.
Today was also the first day of my marathon training again. I only ran a half mile, but it felt good to get out there and be running again.
Also, I've been looking up different writing contests. I think I will enter some of the paying ones, to add to my grad school fund. And also to get me producing work and getting my name out there. I have been falling down in my commitment to myself to write, to get published and produce work. In a rush of afternoon caffine today, I scribbled out a working plot line for the novel, which has hopefully, for good, fixed the plot issues that I hated before. It always seemed so cliched and convoluted in places, so forced, with such easy plot devices. I think I've simplified it down, and sometimes, simple is better.
Today was also the first day of my marathon training again. I only ran a half mile, but it felt good to get out there and be running again.