Category: Sundry
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In which I stream again and finally get somewhere
Story-wise, at least. It’s so gratifying to have that moment where I randomly backread the previous session’s output to reorient myself because I was stuck at one point in the current session only to find out I had already thought about the answer that time except I didn’t remember anything from the previous session! I…
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Scrolling detox update and new stream in which I hemmed and hawed
One hour of writing, by the end of it, feels insufficient, but I swear the first ten to fifteen minutes feel like early morning Mass. I do have to make better plans so I can do 2-hour sprints again (or more). I just haven’t been able to wake up wake up these days. I mean,…
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Singing on the Spot
This week was pretty amazing. I did not expect the volume of congratulatory messages I got on my social media announcement, but mostly because I have forgotten that I did know these many people. I’m relatively old. I’ve lived so many lives. So. Many. Lives. One day I will write about them. But for now…
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OK kind of OK
Well then, I’ve had more social interactions in the past month than the two years that went before it. Yet somewhere people’s worlds are falling apart. It is hard to be perma-happy when you’re perma-informed. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be or that you can’t try. Here, with half of the remaining communal sopas…
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39
I should probably just get over this push-and-pull of whether or not I should go back to blogging by coming up with something first draft-y to get it over with. Yesterday was my 39th birthday, which was as good a time as any to not start blogging again. I had seafood dumplings, sushi, and okonomiyaki…
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Random Return of the Comeback
So gusto ko lang markahan ang araw kung kailan na-realize ko na mahalaga pala ang pagdesisyunan agad ang framing at POV bago simulang tahakin ang pagsusulat ng isang kwento. Kwento ko lang. So matagal ko na nililigawan ang kwentong ‘to, mga tatlong buwan na rin. At least itong version ng kwentong ito na gusto ko…
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The Inevitable Backslide
To make myself feel better about myself, I’m going to say this was inevitable. That anybody on a journey towards taking better care of oneself (one’s self? BAH! autocorrect in your heads, mofos) will experience these strange uncalled for pauses in routine that feel daunting. See, my last update was Day 28. That was ONE…
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100 Days of Writing: Days 27 and 28
100 Days of Writing: Days 27 and 28 I was hoping being done with the big project at my gig would free me to write even more, but they gave me a new thing where I was happy talking to a lot more people but a bit apprehensive at being assumed to be available. I…
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100 Days of Writing: Day 26
100 Days of Writing: Day 26 Finished early today, 760 words at the laptop. Need the rest of the day to focus on work, but at least I gave my best energy to writing today, so I really should be happy about that.
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100 Days of Writing: Day 25
100 Days of Writing: Day 25 220 words on the comp book right before sleeping. It was on the same day I started running again even if I had to go to work that day (the one day I show up at the office for various goings-on) so it was a little tough to insist…