The other night Mark and I went over to Barnes & Noble so he could indulge his new bridge fetish by browsing through the Games section. We both brought our laptops along so we could hang out and be trendy in the cafe for a while. But it turned out I was more interested in…
Category: Writing Life
Bridge Building 101
You know that feeling you get when you sit down at your desk in the morning? That ugh, I don’t want to be here, maybe I should get some cocoa or browse around the interwebs, blah, mornings suck kind of feeling? If you don’t, you’re luckier than me. That’s how I feel pretty much every…
Here’s To Misery!
Recently I’ve been having a lot of trouble staying on task. I’m approaching the end of the book (or at least the end of the first draft), but for some reason it’s become really hard to run this last lap. For help, I looked to Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art, which was rated reasonably…
I Could Really Go For an Overpriced Sissy Drink About Now
Over the past several months I’ve been toting my laptop out to the Borders and working there. It’s been a big win for me, productivity-wise. I don’t get distracted by the chores that need doing around the house. There’s no refrigerator to poke around in. And I’m about 100% less likely to curl up in…