Failing again. Failing better.
Yikes, it’s been another five months without a post. Well, if I want to get back in the habit of posting regularly, the only way to do it is to do it. So here I am, posting. I’m currently reading Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann. In…
If you haven’t visited my site in a while, things probably look very different. But trust me, you’ve come to the right page. It just looks different due to a few updates. What happened? With quite a bit of help from a very patient and far smarter friend, I have made some updates to the…
Today is November 1, which means it is the beginning of National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. The goal is to write 50,000 words during the month of November. That breaks down to 1,667 words per day, despite weekends, holidays, or, in my case, an impending baby. NaNoWriMo is tough, but it is not an…
I have a confession: I’ve made very little progress on my novel. Why? Crappy characters. I’ve spent a lot of time world building (the curse of many genre writers), and I’ve crafted a decent plot. Sadly, my characters are weak. And without strong characters, “decent” is about as good as that plot can get. And…
This weekend, my sister-in-law gave birth to her second child. Therefore, my wife and I watched her first child, hosted our in-laws, and kept busy with other familial duties. While it wasn’t the relaxing Labor Day weekend I would have wanted, I enjoyed a very happy and exciting weekend. But as the weekend wound down,…