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Morning Pages Entry – March 14, 2014

So day 102 now on my current streak. I need, to get back into a good rhythm with the writing thing. Or, to be more succinct, to get back into a good habit. It’s all about the habits you form, and stick with. I was in a routine of writing a bunch for a number of days in a row there, after I did a bunch of the Tony tapes, but I didn’t stick with it. And even after yesterdays morning journal, which I thought was pretty good about how I obsess over things, specifically the install of all the...

Morning Pages Entry – March 13, 2014

And, here we go on day 101 of our streak, almost halfway through march, and my book, is still not published. I really need to get it in gear on the thing. It’s really just habit it seems. It’s like the more I procrastinate on something, the more I want to proscratinate on something. It’s like every day I put off doing something, the harder it is to get started on that thing. How am I supposed to have six books out by the end of summer, if I keep screwing around on the first one. I need to...

Morning Pages Entry – March 12, 2014

Well, here it is, big day 100. That’s 100 consecutive days in a row of writing my morning journal. Even if I haven’t completed nearly enough of my other writing, I can still be a little bit pleased with myself, that I had the staying power, and persistence to continue writing my journals every morning. That’s 750 words every morning for 100 days in a row without a break, that brings me to 75000 words. That’s basically a novel. An unedited, very rough draft of a novel, that doesn’t make a...

Morning Pages Entry – March 11, 2014

Well, now on day 99 of my writing streak. That’s a small accomplishment, but an accomplishment none the less. I’ll take what I can get to this day. Have what seems like a bit of an overwhelming task these next few days now, of editing my 50,000 words of draft on my first novel. It seems a little bit intimidating, as I suppose I’ve never done it before. I’m thinking, the first approach to take, would be to define the overall structure a little better, and see where what I have currently fi...

Morning Pages Entry – March 10, 2014

OK, so I’m going to rant for a bit, or maybe not about how David at London Squash screwed up on our league governing body, and it’s relationship with Squash Ontario. Or maybe not that much. Maybe, I’m actually over it. Not sure. Suffice it to say, that he butted in where he knew he shouldn’t have and took matters into his own hands, when he should have respected the decision of the group. Whatever . . . friggin condesecending pricks at London Squash, always doing what they think is best f...

Morning Pages Entry – March 09, 2014

Well, getting closer to that 100 day streak with my morning journal, which is kinda cool. I actually have more words written in my morning journals, then I do for my novel. Which is not as cool as it could be. I would rather it be the other way around, but that’s just the way it is at the moment. That’s something I definitely need to work on. If I can get my writen daily word count up to something greater then 5K words per day, then that disparity will disappear in a heart beat. But, I’m...

Morning Pages Entry – March 08, 2014

Little bit late getting to the journal today, but none the less, here I am. Yesterday, it was a pretty good day. I got a fair amount of editing done on my novel, but could have done more. I think I have everything properly broken down into scenes now, so it should be much more manageable. Just need to do a bit more cut and pasting. Then, I think I need to go over it scene by scene, and make sure they’re interesting enough, ie. that they have enough conflict in them. I think I was a little...

Morning Pages Entry – March 07, 2014

Well, another week gone by. Nothing too interesting to report on the squash side of things. We had a bit of a match with the other GoodLife team Greenwood, and I’m not really sure, but I think they may have won. They only had 4 players, and we had six. So their top 3 guys played out a few extra matches. So, of course, they should have won. I lost in 4 to Kyle, but whatever. We both made a lot of unforced errors. I need to get to the novel today. I also guess, that this is day 7 of my new...

Morning Pages Entry – March 06, 2014

Well, feeling somewhat cautiously optimistic about things this morning. I’m sleeping at a decent time, I’m eating pretty good, and I actually did a bit more work on editing the novel. Not nearly as much as I could have, if I wasn’t so busy being distracted by the internet again, but an improvement. I’m sure, I can get through a lot more of it today, if I could just focus. Still at the moment, trying to break things down into scenes to make it more manageable, but that’s ok. I did about 10...

Morning Pages Entry – March 05, 2014

I feel, like I’m moving back into a better routine these days. I’m eating better, getting to bed at a decent time, and actually did a little bit of real work yesterday. I think, I will make it official, and go for at least another 30 days of no chocolate, no junk food, no treat eating. Actually, a little bit longer then that, as I plan on taking it up to the finals night for league. And, I plan for my team, to be making it into finals as well. That would be cool. Especially cool, if it’s...