Look at you. Sitting there with your beach novels. Blissfully, ignorantly happy with your paragraphs. You don’t know what I’ve seen. What I’ve suffered. This is a book that was made into a movie filmed in black and white. … Continue reading »Satantango
I am filled with the enthusiasm of October, when time is spent browsing the NaNoWriMo forums and making notes. The NaNo forums are a fantastic place in October. November, too, although in November everyone is scatter-brained, sleep-deprived, and running on … Continue reading »Aiming High
Ah, spring! The time of year when one’s thoughts turn to writing a 50 thousand word novel in 30 days. Can it really be October again already? I haven’t done well in the NaNoWriMo department recently. I failed last … Continue reading »There’s excitement in the air
I’m the world’s least reliable blogger, I swear. One month out of Blaugust and I’m already down to a post a week. *smacks hand* Naughty. I’ve been getting back into Skyrim and wasting my time on that, I’m afraid. (No … Continue reading »Prospect(u)s
Look at me, slacking off with my blogging. Things went so well during Blaugust. Now I’ve fallen off the wagon and am dawdling along behind, finding excuses to delay. My Japanese 2016 planner, the hobonichi techo, arrived last week. … Continue reading »Dragging My Feet
Today the sky is grey, as in my heart, And ever stronger blows the winter wind, And one begins to doubt the clouds will part Above a world whose people so have sinn’d. Alone my heart will brave the … Continue reading »POEM: Winter, a Sonnet
Tonight I spent some time going through and editing some old photos. I tried to post one on tumblr, and was told by that august institution that I had to shrink it or be damned. So it was that I … Continue reading »“Bisous xx”
I posted yesterday, but I deleted it around 5am when I decided it was terrible. (I had a bout of insomnia last night. A great deal of staring at the ceiling and thinking angry thoughts about the whole concept of … Continue reading »Never fucking up anything
Today is the last day of August, and so the last day of Blaugust. It seems appropriate to look back at the month and see how I did. I missed five days, and managed 16 without breaking my streak. I’m … Continue reading »And what have you done?
