Since writing this post three years ago or so, I’ve discovered that the ‘little voice’ I refer to below comes from what I’ve come to call the ‘badbrain’. I will go into more detail later, perhaps in another place, but suffice it to say that, no matter what its motivation, the badbrain is a decidedly… Continue reading From the Vault: Lies We Tell Ourselves
Month: March 2015
Flash Fiction: The Wreck
It’s been too long since I’ve gotten in on the weekly Flash Fiction Challenge over at Terribleminds. Chuck double dog dared us to write 100 words exactly of original fiction. Here’s what I came up with. I start to wake up. I remember a lot of noise. I’m on my side. Glass is everywhere. I… Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Wreck
When Will Words Come?
Courtesy Floating Robes Writers have to write. Just the way that runners have to run, or smokers have to smoke, or brokers have to… broke? Break? Something involving breaking. Anyway, writers are compulsory creatures and writing is a compulsion. It’s felt under the skin. It’s an itch in the fingers, a burning behind the eyes.… Continue reading When Will Words Come?
Interference
There are a lot of things I want to say. Work regarding my words is, I feel, egregiously being left undone. Forward progress I want to be making in my actual, passionate career simply is not happening. I am physically capable, and mentally as well, but circumstances are such that I simply cannot say or… Continue reading Interference
From the Vault: Use Your Anger
Here’s a “Breaking Writer’s Block” post from a few years ago. I’ve been finding myself a bit more irritated of late, for many reasons. I need to remind myself that anger, in and of itself, is neither good nor bad; what we do with our emotions is what matters. Also, the below works more for… Continue reading From the Vault: Use Your Anger
Me And My Spider
As of yesterday, I finally have a complete set of Transmetropolitan. When the final volumes arrived, and I got home to pick them up, I immediately stretched out on the couch to finish reading the series. Then, last night, I started reading it again. I’m planning on reading through every trade paperback in sequence once… Continue reading Me And My Spider
Control+S
Folks, it is very, very important to save your work. After a harrowing and edgy day of front-end coding work, I came home and wrote. I did some other things, first: watched the rest of a movie I’d started the other night, checked in with friends, got some food. But I finally returned to what… Continue reading Control+S
Energy Ebb
Change, even when it is welcomed, can be difficult. I’m not just talking about daylight savings time, and losing an hour of potential sleep to an antiquated means of preserving candle wax or lamp oil. I’m referring to the fact that on top of the new dayjob, and all of its responsibilities and pressures, I… Continue reading Energy Ebb
500 Words on CSS
Cascading Style Sheets are not exactly in my wheelhouse. They’re kind of in the supply shed next to my wheelhouse. They’re right next to what I work with and I am familiar with them, but they aren’t what I work with all the time, and the nature of working with them slows me down quite… Continue reading 500 Words on CSS
Whups, Missed A Day
Okay. I said last week that this week the normal blogging schedule would resume. But for various reason that do not bear divulging on this particular outlet (which is why I maintain others), things have gotten in my way. I’ve been struggling to find more time and energy for more writing, and the emphasis here… Continue reading Whups, Missed A Day
