I’m on day 16 of my latest “Don’t Break the Chain” thing, which is actually only my second thing, which is to work on or finish fiction writing every day. You will recall, or I will let you know now, that the first one was to blog every day. After 50 days, I felt like I had gotten enough momentum that I did not need to be chained to DBTC to keep on blogging. You see, if I ever achieve my goal of becoming an alcoholic, rehab for me will be away to get my drinking under control enough to still occasionally imbibe. If that analogy makes no sense, blame the beer sitting next to me. Heifeweizen, you saucy devil.
Also, I don’t want to DBTC two or more things at the same time. But I don’t know if I can find it myself to still write with any kind of discipline if I don’t have a means to achieve a daily discipline. You’ll notice I have not submitted a blog entry since last Tuesday– that’s because every time I sit down to do so, I realize I have not written or worked any fiction yet, so I do that instead. I am afraid that it will easier to skip days and days of writing for whatever else it is I try to achieve via DBTC.
Or maybe not: I decided to blog today first. [edit: woulda been true, but posting this way later than having written it.] Hooray for you. Also I’m posting a new story that I finished days ago. If I’m not careful, this writing will be just a bubble, new stories posted every few days for a few weeks and then the bubble will burst and that will be that. Of course, the bursting may catapult my World of Warcraft warlock to level 80, just in time for Cataclysm. Cloud, meet silver lining.
Anyhoo. Here’s the story: “Reverse Stalking.” It’s yet another one I found in my Unfinished folder, couldn’t figure out what I had originally intended for it, slapped on an ending, and voila. I don’t know if that’s lazy or productive.
[edit again: was going to talk about the title of this post, as it relates to Lawrence Block, his short stories, the difference between reading and writing, and why I'm actually a jerk because I don't like to read the kinds of things I write. But I'm tired so I'm going to go to bed instead.]
