Yeah, yeah, you all already saw all of Breaking Bad, like, when it was actually running. But my method of watching tv shows is mostly to wait until they are over, and then watch Netflix streaming while I’m working. Late to the party, whatever. And so I am watching it now. So. It’s of course excellent,…
Category: Writing
My Worst Job (But I Never Got Fired!)
Over at the blogging boot camp (which I sorta go in and out of; I mean, we’re told it’s ok to only to post three times a week instead of 7, which is how many prompts we get, but I must say I feel like I’m mostly hanging out in my bunk, reading science fiction,…
How Do We Write?
Oh, joy! I went back into my RSS feeds, in order to come up to speed for blogging, and found this post from Cal Newport about How Novelists Get Work Done. Newport is — to my great interest — always concerned not just with productivity, but especially deep productivity. He thinks a lot about how…
Road Trip. With Circus.
I’m in Oklahoma City now, resting from the second day of traveling with two cats and two birds. We’ll be in Albuquerque tomorrow afternoon. In the meantime, the cats are resting in their crates (they chose that; I thought they’d rather have some space, but no) and the birds are sleeping. And I am writing…
Albuquerque Blogs
As the move back home approaches, I’ve been migrating various internet contents over to the new address. (If you’re connected to me on Facebook, for instance, you might notice that I now live in Albuquerque! Not really. Two weeks to go.) Over on the Links Page, I’ve added a new category, a sampling of Albuquerque Blogs I’m…
Chaucer’s Latest Poem: Herein We See the Difference Between Adaptation and Parody, In Case You Get Confused
Nice to know that Geoff is still working! We hadn’t heard from him since May, but last week, I see, on checking his blog, he posted his latest poem, which, in true Chaucerian fashion, is an reworking of a reworking of an original poem, though given the nature of how literature works, maybe Wallace Stevens…
Guest Post! Stephany Reihing, on ReThinking New Year’s Resolutions Mid-Year
The excellent young writer Stephany Reihing has been writing guest posts for various blogs, as part of her New Year’s Resolutions, and we’re lucky to have her posting here, on tweaking those resolutions in the middle of the year. I saw her blog a few weeks ago when she first wrote about this habit, and…
Proud Parent of Friction Heart
I take my parenting seriously. No, really, even if I did use Bad Language even when my son was young (he used to exclaim, when annoyed, “oh, bad word I’m not allowed to say!” but now he just says them), and even if I did read all of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials to him starting when…
Abbie the Cat is Dying
Just in today: Abbie the Cat, beloved occasional blogger, is dying from pancreatic cancer. Still time to go over to the blog and say something nice to the owner of Abbie, who transcribes Abbie’s musings for us. WordPress isn’t opening my hyperlink button, and I want this to go out NOW, so here’s the link: …
Deep Work
Cal Newport has recently posted a technique for setting up what he calls “deep work” sessions, a technique that seems very useful indeed. His picture of how he uses the technique isn’t very illuminating, though, at least to me; here’s my translation: He’s got a list of things he wants to work on. (In his…