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It continues very dry here--I've taken to appending little requests for rain onto the usual daily prayers. Otherwise the weather is beautiful, with nearly-autumnal temperatures instead of the usual "psych! still summer!" heat spells that are fairly common around here ( Read more... )

Ah, it's a Friday-the-13th today. Not that I've ever noticed anything out of the ordinary on such calendar coincidences, unlike full moons. I've definitely had conversations with my sister where I've complained about the dog being a bit psycho, and she's pointed out lunar cycle as a possible contributing factor ( Read more... )

Amazing how easy it is to not write. All it takes a few days in a row of me forgetting to turn on the ColdTurkey Writer app before logging off for the night, and suddenly I have half a week without writing anything.

My measure of a habit's durability, though, is how easily it can be resumed if/when interrupted. Breakfast > chai > private morning ( Read more... )

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I guess whatever I wind up writing while developing this habit over the next set of days and weeks won't technically be a "book of days", since most of the subject matter probably won't be calendar-related. But my inspiration for starting this up has "book of days" in its title, and is similarly a little scatter-shot in its approach to subject ( Read more... )

I have this handy program called "Cold Turkey Writer" which allows me to lock my computer down entirely until I've written a certain number of words or had the writing program open for a certain length of time. (I really don't like how many times I've used a first-person pronoun in the previous sentence and now this one. Makes me feel very out of ( Read more... )

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Okay. I am back, I think. Got a shiny new laptop for work, which should help me separate out "time to do my stuff" from "time to do work stuff" from "just staring at a laptop because that's what I've been doing for the past 6 hours ( Read more... )