I‘m going to try to get one of these posts out each week, even if I don’t publish anything else. Part of the purpose of this blog is to keep me working on things, and these little goals and confessionals are a means to that end. Feel free to skip over these posts as you see fit. They’re basically just here for my own sake. Weekly Report, Week 12 Right. Turns out I’m a bit of an optimist when it comes to estimating the amount of free time I’ll have on the weekend of my wife’s 25th birthday. In other [...]

I think this whole posting goals thing is good for me, so without further ado, here’s my first such post. So. What, then, do I want to accomplish this week? Let’s kick it off easy, with just a few things: Write at least 500 words of backstory or actual story on my current novel project. Put up the gallery I mentioned in the previous post — the one with all my rejected design proposals. Put in at least an hour or two into any other creative endeavor. I’m going to stop there for now, keeping it nice and simple, real [...]

Below follows a rather uninteresting tale in five parts about how I came to first abandon and later find again the pleasure of keeping this blog. How foolish a creature is man, that he would postpone until the next day (and the next (and the next again)) doing the things he loves? Verily, I am a procrastinating and silly specimen of humanity. Part I: Self-Ridicule The beginning, I hope, of a more productive phase in my creative life. Hah! Pfft. Balderdash! I believe that the pressure of actually trying to publish something here on a regular basis will go a [...]

I need to get back on track with my writing. I need to stop planning and plotting and get to actually writing. It always goes the same way: I come up with a beginning for a story. Something that sounds cool. Just a scene that popped into my mind, or a sketch of a character or a neat setting. I write a few pages going with the general theme I had in mind when I first got the idea. Now, here’s where the trouble begins. I start getting grandiose ideas about the setting, the characters and the ending and how [...]

Entry, the first. The beginning of this, my new blog. The beginning, I hope, of a more productive phase in my creative life. The reasons for this blog (although I really don’t like that word; it feels so overused) are twofold: I have for a long time (say three years or so) been planning to launch a personal Web site just to make public the things I make and maybe, once in a while, write some random thoughts. And seeing how all the kids are using WordPress these days, I decided to see what all the fuss was about, and [...]