Failing again. Failing better.
I can’t believe I forgot to post this. A while back, during the peak of the replacement ref extravaganza, I wrote a short story about the future of officiating called “The Last Call.” I had recently starting working as a football official in Virginia, so I had all this material to work with. One the…
The referee entered the new stadium for the first and last time. They had asked him to arrive an hour earlier than normal, so that they could give him a brief tour of the facility. During his tour, the guide repeatedly thanked him for agreeing to work today’s game. Jim just nodded and kept walking…
The first is a poster-version of a quote from an Ira Glass video: The second is a list of 25 Motivational Thoughts for writers by author Chuck Wendig. They are really good, but some of them have NSFW elements. I kept these things short and quick so you can get a quick shot of motivation.…
Today is November 1, so that means that NaNoWriMo begins. The goal is to write 50,000 words of new material in the 30 days of November. That breaks down to 1,667 words per day. The trick is keeping up the pace over weekends, holidays, and other everyday distractions. It’s a month-long writing marathon, and November…
2K TO 10K: WRITING FASTER, WRITING BETTER, AND WRITING MORE OF WHAT YOU LOVE by Rachel Aaron is a new e-book inspired by her blog posts about increasing her word counts (I commented about the post here) and plotting a novel (I commented about that one here). Although you may be asking yourself why you’d…