On Monday night, as I mentioned, I had a meeting with a guy about a thing. I'm being vague until the idea has legs ( Read more... )

Everyday, any number of things can send my thoughts on a tangent in to my past. From short jaunts into the recent past, to longer treks back to my childhood, I never know what's going to trigger the trip or how far it'll go ( Read more... )

I'd like to say a lot has happened since I last posted, but it's not true.

The Hundred Pushups people have redesigned the program and I've started up again. Still on Week 3 Tier 1, but this time I've actually managed to do the day's requirements. 10+12+7+7+9 = 45 on Wednesday, 10+12+8+8+12 = 50 on Friday ( Read more... )

Finally got around to transcribing a pair of stories written a while back.

Both are inspired by the song "Paloma" There's a sample on Last.FM which happens to have the relevant lyric. Convenient.

The first is the story of Seamus O'Connor, a young Kheldic warrior/skald and why he's walking the world: The Courage of a LambThe second is the story ( Read more... )

The sun was setting in the West; the light was filtered through every tree outside my window. And right in to my eyes ( Read more... )

Work was aggravating today. I went out for lunch and found the Wicked Tinkers - Those Marching O'Neills to be a good angry bagpipe song / march ( Read more... )

Mur challenged me to write my own entry about unconventional ways to mark the passage of time ( Read more... )

I took out the electric clippers and trimmed my hair and beard tonight. Not quite as short as the last time, but still much shorter.

Stopped in to the diner on my way home from work and finished the old man's expository bits for what may turn out to be a retelling of a role playing game alarin612 ran a few years ago. It ties in with this vignette (which ( Read more... )

As I sat in the diner, staring at the blank page in front of me, waiting for my sandwich, I was drawing a blank.

I thought about putting the pen down and pulling out the book in my bag. I even closed my writing journal for a moment. But then I thought of sailormur and her podcast I Should Be Writing. Specifically I thought of the phrase "butt in chair ( Read more... )

Ever have a good idea for a story, and fleshing it out in your head gets you all excited about it, but then you sit down to write it and get bogged down in the minutia of exposition ( Read more... )