Racking up the rejections

As I continue to rack up the rejections, a comment I received from The Furlow Writing Lab got me thinking about why I post my rejections here. I think I was inspired by a post by Benjamin Rosenbaum about keeping score and the old story about papering the bathroom wall with them. Alas (to borrow […]

Pushing the rock

So after my gripe yesterday, I dragged out the printout and worked on the silly story a little. And after a while, the “ugh” feeling went away, and I felt pretty good about what I was writing after all. Which is what usually happens. Why is it so hard to remember that?

Arg

Back in don’t wanna write mode. I think I did everything but write today. There’s just enough energy left to poke at the story a bit. Ugh.

So far, so so-so

Okay, I have an outline. I don’t know if it’s silly enough, so I’m going to take a print out and mark it up for places it could be sillier. And then I’ll set my next deadline, despite my resistance to deadlines. Because of my resistance to deadlines. I’d still rather play with updating the […]

Curse you, deadlines!

Curse you, self-imposed deadline, for getting me to work! Here I was all comfy and ready to blow off making serious headway on cleaning up an outline for that silly fairy tale. After all, I hadn’t done anything yet; there was no way I was going to get it done by today. Besides, when I […]

Sticking to it

In general I feel like I’ve taken leave of my senses to start working on this dumb fairy tale that I’ve chosen to work on. And yet, why not? It might be easier to finish if I’m not trying to write the best story I’ve ever written. Besides, I have to choose something. I like […]

Gripe, gripe, gripe

I’m in the fun stage of alternating between thinking I know what I’m trying to do and thinking that I should be working on something else. It doesn’t help that — no, stop whining. All I know is this story has been bugging me for a long time. It said it wants to be finished, […]

A noncommittal commitment

It’s an odd thing. I haven’t been entirely convinced that I’m committed to fixing up this fairy story that’s been kicking around my files, and yet lately I’ve been waking up thinking about it. So I guess my backbrain is committed to it. Or maybe it just wants me to finish the silly thing and […]

Something seems to be working

I’ve been poking at “Thou Art God”, a little bit of cosmic poetry, and I think I’m pretty happy with where it’s gotten to. I’m definitely happy that I’m meeting a deadline for a change. I’m just not sure how it happened.

Still plugging away

Not much to report on the writing front, except to note that yesterday, I was getting the feeling that I was due for another rejection. One of my stories came through on that front this morning, and I sent it right back out again. I like to think that expecting a rejection made it easier […]