Tag: ponder
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Catering to Expectations
We all do it to some degree. And before you go off on how you always do what you want, when you want and screw what anyone else thinks, when you went to the company Christmas party, did you dress like everyone else, to expectation, or did you show up looking like a crazy homeless…
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Writers and Coffee
There are these jokes going around that inextricably link writers with coffee shops. The two have been inextricably linked long before I first thought of being a writer. When someone says the word “writer,” our thoughts immediately place him/her in some café somewhere, listening to indie music, absorbing the aroma of coffee that has bonded…
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Words and the Difficulties in Applying Their Meaning in Life
According to my dictionary: Productive: adjective (1612) 1: having the quality or power of producing especially in abundance 2: effective in bringing about 3a: yielding or furnishing results b: yielding or devoted to the satisfaction of wants or the creation of utilities 4: continuing to be used in the formation of new words or constructions…
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Someday
I wrote this up after viewing this picture on Markovich Photo Art, shot by Alex Markovich. (Yes, I know I just put up a CYA post about pictures. I also CYA’ed myself with a screen capture regarding permissions on his blog – so there.) *** We bought a boat and took it out the…
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A Pile of Buckets
It’s been a more than year since I’ve really been able to write. It’s hard for me to believe that – for a number of years, I was chugging along at a reasonable clip at my writing. Not screaming fast, not even noticeably fast, but it was a steady pace. Stories were forming, plots were…
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An IWSG Post – CYA
Despite my… ah… current creative difficulties, I have actually been trying to work on other things related to the writing gig. I’ve been doing research on random things like history and tactics and occasionally some business consideration will pop up somewhere that makes me think “Hmmm, I should think about that.” A post I read…
