Crazy Talk and Sometimes Socks
Photo by Suzy Hazelwood on Pexels.com The autumn wind is whipping across the battlefield as I pull my too-think jacket tight across my shoulders. It was a hard day in the trenches, and I look toward the morning with a sense of resigned duty, knowing that earning tomorrow’s respite will be no easier than gaining … Continue reading The Old Nemesis Returns
You might think that’s somehow a weird Election Day image, and I can come up with like a dozen different ways to make that work myself. However, this pic is actually about writing, and it goes along with my Twitter posts from Sunday... https://twitter.com/jasonarust/status/1191185343803985920?s=21 And then, of course, yesterday... https://twitter.com/jasonarust/status/1191574396512722944?s=21 Which is to say, I’m … Continue reading Remember, remember the 5th of November
With the fun of Halloween behind us, the first of November arrived today, and with it the ominous spectre of NaNoWriMo. If you've been reading this blog for a few years, you might remember that this is code for "National Novel Writing Month". It's an adventure that thousands of brain-fevered writers embark on every November … Continue reading The Perfect Socks For The Start Of An Imperfect Manuscript
Hour Of The Day When I Realized I Forgot To Eat Lunch: 4
Seriously, I’m not entirely sure who’s been feeding amphetamines to Time itself, but the calendar is whipping through days at a ridiculous pace. I mean, waaaaay too fast. Faster than a over-stimulated toddler after a full bowl of Sugar-O’s, running stern to bow on a Federation starship screeching through the vastness of space at Warp … Continue reading National Disappearing Days From The Calendar Month
Lights on driving homeDay feels done before dinner.Suck it, Standard Time As you can see, I’m not a huge fan of the whole fall/winter Standard Time business. If you ask me, we should stick to Savings Time year round. I’m mean, sure, it’s dark in the mornings then, but AM darkness makes me feel like … Continue reading A Haiku For One Week of Standard Time
Man, have I been slacking. Well, okay, so that’s not the kind of news you wake your significant other up for. Truth is, the idea that I’ve been slacking about something is roughly akin to getting all hyper and jumping up-and-down while screaming because, *gasp* the tide is getting higher! Get it, because the tide … Continue reading About Time For A Kick In The Pants
How to win NaNoStart to write; stop for nothingRepeat 30 days
On October 1st, not only did certain members of the US House of Representatives decide to take their football and go home (thus ruining the whole Federal Government game for all of us), the website for National Novel Writing Month 2013 went live. How are these things related? They’re really not. They’re wholly independent. But! … Continue reading Thoughts in advance of NaNoWriMo 2013
It's suddenly come to my attention that I've somehow recently shared next to nothing about the current state of my author-ly pursuits. I mean, I did little but badger you poor readers about writing back in November (well, when I wasn't trying to ignore everything blog-related competely) as I worked feverishly* on my NaNoWriMo novel. … Continue reading Things that made me smile: catching-up on literary things
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