It’s nice when the stuff is flowing.

Last week, I wrote two days in a row for over four thousand words a day, then another for two thousand.

Those are NaNoWriMo numbers. It felt easy, it was fun and it flowed.

Monday, Kiddo and I had a mini writing jam since the weekend was packed and I was off anyway and in just under ninety minutes I managed to get down over a thousand words without particularly feeling it.

I’ll put some of that to Kiddo, I love writing with her. I’ll put some of that on my lovely wife who I know supports and approves of this kind of activity. I’ll put a bit on the story. I didn’t plan it, I wanted to explore it and figured it might make a good short story but now that I’m almost twenty thousand words in, I guess it might make a novel (I personally don’t like writing novellas…it’s like playing 7/21…once you pass seven, you got no choice but to go all the way).

I have a new writing platform. Instead of trying finance a whole new gaming laptop this year (which I can’t and shouldn’t), I found a super duper cheap laptop and was surprised at the deal. The battery life almost tops five hours, it boots up super fast and it’s light and small (14inch). It’s very very portable unlike my regular one and doesn’t require a plug or an extra keyboard and mouse. Like Kiddo (who I’ve been jealous of, since I got her a new laptop not long ago for schoolwork), I can now just sit, open and write within two minutes of getting somewhere (instead of futzing, making room, finding a plug, booting up, fiddling to get the USB keyboard working etc..and maybe settling down to writing in ten or fifteen minutes). I really enjoy it.

I just wanted to touch base with this place. I plan on continuing to show signs of life. In fact, I’m toying with the idea of resurrecting The Expensive Universal Instrument periodical story I used to do on here because it was a lot of fun. Stay in touch and I hope you enjoy!

It’s been a while.

I’m back, although I was never really away.

I’ve had two short stories published and I’m proud of them.

I quit my very very stressful abusive job and through a good friend found another which allows me to heal a decade of damage. It feels good.

I now have a writing jam (trying every weekend) with my lovely daughter who is cursed with the writing bug. The result of which is those aforementioned two stories, well definitely the second one (born of those jams) and a word count even if life gets away from me during the week.

And it’s daddy daughter time with kiddo, which is worth more to me than anything in the world.

I decided to start contributing to this blog now and again partly because of that. Everything is starting up again. This is part of it. I’ve had good ideas writing down my thoughts here. I want to play with that again.

Another reason is that during a chat with Kiddo (Hi Kiddo!) , I mentioned this website and her eyes got really wide and she said “You have a website????”, then scampered off saying “I have googling to do now!”. Never mind that she does not have to google me. I would have given her the address.

It definitely gave me the impetus to post SOMETHING here. There will be more. I can’t promise something new every day or even every week, but there’ll be something.

Keep writing folks.

Well it happened. I skipped a day. I guess that’s bad news.

Still, there’s a lot of good news.

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I’ve got a rough outline that I’m pretty happy with.

I’ve had a couple of breakthroughs.  I’ve identified a few things that really didn’t work with my last attempt at this story.  I’ve killed off some ideas, cleared some plot bunnies and added a few more.

The story is both more streamlined and more complex.

It will be the first time I have a cast of several main characters and viewpoints.   It’s a challenge but that’s ok.

Now on to fleshing out those characters!

There is no point to this post other than I really want to see words, any words here.

A long overdue conversation (read:  Long, bloody, ugly slugfest) with the shithead is underway.

The recent short story I’ve been shopping around got another rejection this week (the 8th I think).

This one was different…

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