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Morning Pages Entry – April 02, 2014

So, here we are, and it finally feels like winter is over this week. This is like the third day in a row, we’ve been well over zero degrees, and it looks like most of the snow is melting. I may actually have to start thinking about working on the boat. It would be really nice, to get that leaky front window fixed, and maybe now is a time to start talking about dealing with the boat. I’m always a bit anxious about dealing with the boat this time of year, because I think there’s going to be...

Morning Pages Entry – April 1, 2014

Ah here we go with April fools day. Nothing foolish going on in here today. Today is serious, as all my days seem to be lately. I will be trying to finish the intro to my novel today. I have a the first section of three finished, and the 2nd section of three 95% finished. So, today, I should be able to finish that one, and then finish the third. I’m calling them sections, because I’m not sure they are scenes anymore. The first one ended up at almost 8000 words. I’m trying to keep the subs...

Morning Pages Entry – March 31, 2014

So, here we go, with the last day of March, and it looks like I’ve done another full calendar month of writing. Ah well . . . yawn yawn yawn. It’s getting so easy, it’s boring. If that’s not the power of habits, then, I don’t know what is. I can remember, the last time I started a new habit and stuck to it, for as long as I’ve stuck with this one. We’re up to 119 days, with todays writing, and it doesn’t really seem all that tough. I don’t dread it, I don’t fear it, and I don’t mind doing...

Zero To Hero

So, you say Christa disappeared and Alex stayed with Chaz. At least, that’s the way that I thought this was going to go, but then you changed that up a bit in the last scene, when you said, that Alex was also in a coma, and that Christa put both of them into a coma when she left. Oh, yes, and it seems that Patzy had something to do with them going into a coma … or perhaps, I should say, I’ve already explained, that she had someting to do with Chaz’s coma. At the very least, she was monito...

Comatose Dreams

So, here we go with the next scene. Chaz woke up from a coma, and has made a somewhat mysterious deal with the General speaking on behalf of the government for Chaz to do some undisclosed mission and the government won’t court martial him for his behaviour, and they won’t throw his family in jail for illegaly leaving the country six years ago. Which of course, gives Chaz a chance … a small one to reunite with them. So the other question I would like to address here, is how did Chaz actual...

Family Ties

So, lets talk about the family. Oh I don’t know about this, so where do we go. I must admit, I do really like this friggin about with writing whatever or whatever that is sort of on topic, but not really, and I really do have to say, that I’m kind of excite about how this has worked so far. It does kind of get my brain thinking about what it is that I should be writing about. So, with Chaz’s family … oh yea, and I forgot to mention, that I have the spotify jazz channel playing while I wri...

Welcome Back

And, so what would you say, if Chaz was just waking up, and wondering what it was he’s supposed to be doing here in this bed. Well. Wait a minute, why is this damn thing spacing so much out. Allright, there we go, now it’s not doing anything so silly. So, what are you going to do to snap out of this crazy shit. Right now, I’m just writing for the sake of writing, as fast as I can, and really without too much sense about what goes down on the page. So, just suppose for a moment, that I had...

Morning Pages Entry – March 30, 2014

Looks like, I’m about to put another full month of writing under my belt, which is sort of cool. This journaling has been my one bit of success these past few months, that I can be proud of. Certainly, I don’t always have a lot of great things to say, but at the very least I do sit down and do the work. Which, is more then I can say for my novel writing. But, the journaling is helping me deal with that, and seems to be pushing me in the right direction, when it comes to getting into the w...

Morning Pages Entry – March 29, 2014

So, today is saturday, and I’m writing this from upstaris again. Nice to get out of the basement a bit more often, and it’s time to sort out some new goals I think. We’re heading into spring finally, after a riduculously long winter, but I think we may finally be turning the corner. Number one, is that I haven’t lost the weight I’ve wanted to my this point, and I need to do something about that. But, it’s not all bad news. I have been eating extrodinarly well, just a bit too much I think....

Morning Pages Entry – March 28, 2014

Well, yesterday was a real bummer. We ended up losing in the quarter finals, to a team we beat all year. That just sucks. Really though, I need to quit taking this crap so seriously. Of course, I was too wired to sleep last night, and I felt crappy this morning when I woke. Felt crappy mainly, just because we lost. Never should have went down that way. Ah well fuck it. One good thing that happened, is that even though I did have a glass of wine last night, I didn’t indulge in any junk foo...