I want the world // I want the whole world // Don’t care how // I want it now Veruca Salt, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Greetings friends, and welcome to week two of my wonderfully uplifting delve into sin’s grip on the world and what we can do in our own lives to …
Don’t ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next product! Jay, Red Letter Media Well, here we are. After spending entirely too long choosing a title (One I’m still not overjoyed with, but deadlines are deadlines) and the order in which I’d be covering the subjects, the day is upon me. But …
No, I don’t need no help // I can sabotage me by myself // I don’t need no one else // I can sabotage me by myself. – Paramore, Caught in the Middle Pictured above: Me. Ohai there, everybody. Turns out yes, I’m still alive. No, I haven’t succumbed to whatever flavor-of-the-month terrible thing is …
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. Annie Dillard, The Writing Life It comes as little surprise that, as the dust …
Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. G.K. Chesterton, A Chesterton calendar Happy 2022, everybody. Hope it’s started off well for you. Last year was, well… it was something. I think it was simultaneously the longest …
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. Leonardo da Vinci Happy December! First of all, I want to apologize for this being a day late. When I finished the final day of NaNoWriMo, I …
It is impossible to make time but you can always make a commitment. Johnnie Dent Jr. This upcoming Tuesday marks the end of my first NaNoWriMo. Obviously. It’s the last day of November, after all. I won’t lie, this puts me at a bit of a weird point for this article. I’ve discussed why I’m …
That’s the trouble with humans. We stumble over things that aren’t even there. Sai Pradeep Good thing there’s nothing important going on in the world to talk about at the moment, right? Right? Anyway, week 3 was definitely not the best for writing productivity. Between having my family come into town, my 14th wedding anniversary, …
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Confucius, Confucius: The Analects It’s not that I’m running out of ideas that aren’t retreads (I am), but after last week’s NaNoWriMo update I figured why not keep these going for the month? It’s a once-a-year thing, after all, and NaNo is a …
Do. Or do not. There is no try. Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back Well, it’s over. I’ve checked the calendar a couple of times today – not that I needed to being Halloween and all, hard to miss all that going on – and the clock many, many more. Just did again, in fact, to …
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