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Write-a-thon, Day 6: “A player on a streak has to respect the streak”
Bildungsroman After hours of wrestling with customer service and how to teach it to people who spend their days testing oil viscosity and tracking down Mason jars sent in by irate customers, the last thing I wanted to do was light a fire under my brain. But Crash Davis was right.…
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Write-a-thon, Day 5: Write another day
(Image borrowed from the 2011 Wordstock Festival.) This morning I had a job interview and this afternoon I worked onsite for a freelance client. In one day I went from health care to lubrication analysis to trains in the mountains in 1947. You have to be flexible if you want…
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Write-a-thon, Day 4: Train kept a-rollin’
Yesterday I promised you a guest blogger, mystery novelist Deborah Donnelly. Due to circumstances beyond our control, Ms. Donnelly will not eventuate. Not on Day 4, anyway. She says hi. New kids on the block I’m speaking now to the new readers I’ve just detected, thanks to the stats dished…
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Write-a-thon, Day 3: This is not my beautiful plot
I’ve written about typewriters before, particularly how you had to cut your manuscript with scissors and tape it back together if you had a big idea in the late innings and wanted to rearrange your plot. These days, of course, rearranging your writing is so simple and quick that you…
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Write-a-thon, Day 2: Deliver me from distraction
Writing is dark and lonely work, and no one has to do it. No one will even care much if it doesn’t get done at all, so that choosing to do it and to try to do it well is enough of an existential errand, enough of a first step,…
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