Relearning The Obvious

Here’s something I already knew: when I start writing at, let’s say, nine o’clock, instead of ten minutes of midnight, I actually have the energy to make serious progress. Now I’m feeling excited about “Mars Needs Worms” again. Here’s something else I already knew: I need daily reminders that I’m going to write, no matter […]

Small successes

I’m sorry my posts this week have been mind-alteringly dull. There will be more about SF reading next week, honest. I finished Brasyl, but I’m still digesting it. I discovered that I still like my favorite Nancy Kress story. And even though I’ve been playing with a new camera all day, I managed to start […]

Persistence

What’s the saying? Fall down 12 times, get up 13. Sometimes it feels more like fall down 30, get up 31. I’m thinking of this because I found one of my old calendars that I used to log when I got writing done. It looks like back in 1999, I wrote every day for a […]

Remember to write

That was a big success. Not.

Just Start Writing

I have been writing every day, but it hasn’t felt all that productive, as I thrash about, trying to get my current story off the ground. Aside from that, I’ve fallen into a pattern that I’m trying break out of. I keep putting off writing until late in the evening. (And yes, it’s 9 pm […]

Why blogging is so damn addictive

The day after I posted about the work function of writing, it stopped working. To be honest, I stopped taking my own advice. I would pick hard things to write next, and then resist writing all day. Duh! Blogging on the other hand became easier every day. These are the elements that I think make […]

Evil Monkey Helps Me Understand

You may have noticed that I called this blog “Writing Every Day,” but you could be forgiven for thinking what I really mean is “Reading Every Day.” Now that I’m about halfway through trying to blog every day for a month, I’m starting to wonder exactly I’m doing. While mostly I’ve been sharing my reading […]

The work function of writing

I don’t know about you, but I have a very high work function when the time comes to write; I’m like a happy little electron snug in my energy well of goofing off and it takes a significant boot in the butt to raise my energy enough to push my fingers around the keyboard. Over […]

Writing every day

I really do write every single day. Even when I’m sick or traveling or busy. I’ve done so since September 3, 2000. Before that I wrote most days, and before that I wrote occasionally, and before that when I felt inspired, and before that I thought I would get around to writing some day. Oh, […]