Category: writing

I feel like I’m definitely getting more in a writing groove, although still a bit scattered. I’ve changed my graph game up and instead of the pie chart, there’s now a stacked line chart which gives a better combined view of how much writing I did on a day by day basis and how often […]

Another of my Chicago Sonnet sequence. I was walking up Halsted from attending Mass at Our Lady of Mt Carmel on my way to a brunch at the St Francis Catholic Worker in Uptown and spotted a sign on the metal wall outside Sidetrack. Something about the sign reading, “Caution metal is hot” caught my […]

Having gotten relatively clear of my depression, I seem to be finally being a bit more productive. The new story is almost ready for workshopping and I hope to have revisions done later today or, worst case, tomorrow.  Bunches of rejections over the course of the month, but also one acceptance, my first of the […]

So I’m climbing out of the depression, although not quite as fast as I’d like. Most of my writing this month has been on the working on the new story, which I have managed to finish the rewrite on which seems to have expanded the story by a bit over 10%. I only had two […]

My big revelation this month was that wasting time playing games online isn’t the cause of my not writing so much as a symptom of the cause which is that I’ve been kind of in a depressed state for most of this year.  That said, I did manage to at least complete the revisions that […]

Another disappointing month for progress. I’ve been a bit more attentive to my mental state though and I’ve noticed a few things: With the fixed-goal approach, I ended up being reluctant to get started when the daily amount of writing I had to do crossed a certain threshold and I ended up doing nothing instead, […]

I recently encountered a delightful malapropism in an article I read online: Greene’s final text of his so-called Catholic teratology Given that DiCamillo lists four books after this, I’m pretty sure the word he was reaching for was “tetralogy” and his spellchecker did him wrong giving him instead a word that means: 1 Medicine Biology […]

This poem began life as the alt text on a picture I posted to Twitter back before Twitter turned evil. After I wrote the alt text, I realized that the alt text applied to itself and not just the picture and with a bit of editing turned into the poem that was published in Hanging Loose.  […]

Yet another disappointing month of little progress. A nasty flu at the beginning of the month and a new job haven’t helped. but mostly it’s indolence and procrastination to blame. New Novel. Ideally I’d have at least finished a chapter to be on pace this month. Not so much. I wrote 2037 words over the […]