As I close out the month of January, I’m pretty pleased with my results. I’ve written every day this month, with a high of 2400 words (today, which is a Saturday) and only a couple of “bad” days where I managed to only get 100 to 200 words. I’m closing in on 40,000 words for…
No, this was not “winter storm <some stupid dumbass weather channel name>”. Seriously, just give it up, weather channel, no one is buying it. Hurricanes get named, blizzards get a year. The blizzard of 2016. End of discussion, your marketing scheme has failed. If we must name them, the people will come up with clever,…
23.714 words. As of this morning, January 20th, I’ve written 23,714 words of literature. I’m pretty gobsmacked by that number, actually. It’s more than 4,500 words above the amount I set for myself based on a daily expected average of 959 words. I’ve completed one story but for the ending, have made real progress into…
It snuck up on me, it did. The Holidays came and went, and I’ve been on a “learn all about typewriters” binge since I got my Smith Corona before Christmas. I almost pulled the trigger on an early 1970’s Olympia SM9, considered by some to be the finest manual typewriter (portable, though it’s a big…
Happy New Year world. May 2016 be significantly better than 2015 was. That’s what happens during the ramp up to a Presidential election year in this country, we get a lot of pandering and fear mongering which seems to infect us like a virus, dumbing down our populace and turning us into frothing lunatics. I…