Welcome to a new week, Lurkdom! Unfortunately, I don’t have a thought-out blog post in mind for today*. What this means for you is that I might just ramble stream-of-consciousness style**. I’ve been thinking a lot about the different forms of writing space. Not just where I can park my butt, but the space in my brain and also on
Task-Setting For Writers, Part III: Bargains and Compromises
Welcome to part three of task-setting for writers. You can read weeks one and two here. There are some people out there that totally own the hand-off. My experience shows this happens with managers of some sort who drop the crap tasks on their underlings/interns. But your’re not here to discuss my traumatic work history. You’re here because you want
Task-Setting For Writers, Part II: Multi-Tasking
Welcome to part two of task-setting for writers. This will be a weekly feature for the next several weeks. If you’re like me, you want to accomplish more things than reasonable during the day: blogs to read, TV watch, peeps to catch up with, that book you want to finish reading, not to mention the gym. This is on top
Task-Setting For Writers, Part I: Priorities
Welcome to part one of task-setting for writers. This will be a weekly feature for the next several weeks. To say that the art of writing is time-intensive is like saying chocolate is awesome*. In my fantasy world, I have an unlimited amount of time each day to work on my projects, still train for a marathon, and give the
Dear Monday, Come Back Later
You know I’ll never get sick of this one. Life has overrun the day job and the day job has overrun my brain. I can feel the stress level creeping up to the point where neither chocolate nor ice cream will eliminate the problem. The headache is pounding to the point where holding my head like Deadpool here might be