There’s a special feeling when you’ve got a niche and you fill it so nicely. Everything’s in its place, because you know this place and it’s your place and you dictate where all the things go.
You’re in your comfort zone. Your little personal bubble. You’re hidden away safe and sound where you know all the dark corners and all the damp spaces and juuuust where to lay down on that mattress. Continue reading
It’s Monday, May 30th. Which means this post is a day late, but whatever, let’s get to it!
I’ll be brief this week because I’ve got a lot of stuff to do before going back to work tomorrow. A fair amount of my time has been taken up with home stuff as I’m preparing to take over my two-bedroom apartment in full instead of sharing it with a roommate. So shopping and planning and all the chores that go with keeping up the place now fall directly on my shoulders.
Which is to say that it’s my excuse for not getting as much done as I’d have liked. Continue reading
Holy cow, it’s closing in on the end of May already? Let’s talk about stuff I’ve been watching, reading, and playing!
I watched two movies this month, Special Correspondents which was kind of a stinker, and Captain America: Civil War, which was not, so Civil War takes the prize!
Things I loved about Civil War: Captain America gets actual character development. Black Panther. Spider-Man. Ant-Man’s twist on powers. Falcon and Winter Soldier hating on each other. There were issues with the movie (partly because there were only a thousand people in it), but overall it was highly enjoyable and shoves the MCU into an interesting direction.
It’s May 22nd, 2016. Let’s talk about goals and things!
My goals for Second Quarter of 2016 (April-June) are as follows:
We’ve all been there. An idea pops into your head and it’s so ludicrous, so fun, that you just have to start writing it down. Erudite and lusty space dinosaurs? Go for it! A world in which you can taste colors, giving completely blind people a way to describe the spectrum? Why the hell not!
Then you get excited about it, and because you’re not a soulless automaton, you talk to people about the thing you’re excited about, which in turn excites them. You have just built anticipation for the idea.
Now you just have to write the thing that will live up to what’s in your head and in their imaginations. Continue reading
It’s the 19th week of the year and normally I’d be making a weekly update post, but I have been traveling, and visiting friends and family, and it has been difficult getting anything done.
So I am giving myself the day off! Normal posts resume Tuesday.
Until then, give yourself a day of rest, too
It’s Thursday and I’m traveling today, so I thought I would talk about how to get your work done while riding around. It’s a valid question for public transit commuters as well, managing to utilize your ride time for productivity. Continue reading
It’s May 8th, 2016. Let’s talk about goals and things!
My goals for Second Quarter of 2016 (April-June) are as follows:
Here’s the brief accomplishments toward these goals: Continue reading
One of the most common “tips” you are likely to hear for writers is that you have to read. And read a lot. Read in your genre. Read out of your genre. Read everything.
I completely agree with this and it’s going to be somewhat my focus for this post.
If you want to be a filmmaker, you should be a fan of film. If you want to make sculptures, you should know about sculpting. If you want to be a coder, you need to know coding languages.
If you want to be a writer, you have to read similar writing to what you want to write. There’s a few good reasons for why this is so: Continue reading
It’s May 1st, 2016. First four months down!
My goals for Second Quarter of 2016 (April-June) are as follows:
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