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Morning Pages Entry – May 02, 2014

So, it seems that more success stories were the order of the day yesterday. I’m beginning to not mind so much reading them, as I suppose one of my big worries, is that I’m going to miss this train. That train, being, the opportunity to start writing stories, and make money at it. Part of me thinks that, we’re in this era, where anyone that makes a prolific amount of good stories can make money. And, that does seem to be true. Right now, I’ve read about lots of people that put lots of stor...

Three Zombies And A Dinghy

So, where do we go with this one now. Originally, this was supposed to be a bit of self discovery after Andreas was rescued from under the water. But now, I’m not sure. I suppose, there does seem to be something, where he starts to get a sense of what he is. This guy has to have a bit of a steep character arc, given that he’s quite a jerk in the beginning, even the beginning from before we meet him on the boat with Christa. But, I would have to think, that since I plan to kill him off bef...

Morning Pages Entry – May 01, 2014

So, today, the first of May, and where do we sit in the grand scheme of things. Hmmm, well Jennifer has moved home, which is sort of cool I think. Haven’t seen here a whole lot yet, but we’ve certainly seen a lot of her stuff. It’s been plunked in the living room cluttering up the whole place ever since she moved in. I’m sitting at around 171 pounds, and a bit annoyed with my weight loss. But, of course, yesterday, I took steps to remedy that. I did some intermetent fasting, by only eatin...

So, today, the first of May, an...

So, today, the first of May, and where do we sit in the grand scheme of things. Hmmm, well Jennifer has moved home, which is sort of cool I think. Haven’t seen here a whole lot yet, but we’ve certainly seen a lot of her stuff. It’s been plunked in the living room cluttering up the whole place ever since she moved in. I’m sitting at around 171 pounds, and a bit annoyed with my weight loss. But, of course, yesterday, I took steps to remedy that. I did some intermetent fasting, by only eatin...

Morning Pages Entry – April 30, 2014

Ahh, so it looks like this will be another complete month of writing morning journals for me. That’s getting to me not such a big deal anymore. What I really want, is to have a story out there though. I’ve been reading a number of interesting posts on the Kindling FaceBook page about some huge success stories people have been having with their books, by promoting them through FaceBook ads. The last one, was about someone getting to over $10K per month within 5 months. That’s pretty impres...

Morning Pages Entry – April 29, 2014

I want to know what it feels like to have a book published on Amazon. I’ve been debating this for so long now, and I’ve been working on it for so long now, I really need to see this happen. I want to know it’s like. I want everyone to know that I’ve accomplished this. I want to put it out there, like it matters. To put it out there for the world and everyone to judge me on it. Tell me if it sucks, tell me if they like it, tell me if it’s great or not so great. It doesn’t really matter whi...

Morning Pages Entry – April 28, 2014

It’s monday morning, and only 3 days left in April. Time to get into gear. I should have some new big goal set at the beginning of each month. Like, I should have this book published, and the next book published, before the end of May (next month). That would be pretty cool to actually publish two books in one month. Even though the first one has taken me forever to write, it’s pretty close to getting there, and if I could just finish it of, and get back to doing my 5K per day writing thi...

Morning Pages Entry – April 27, 2014

I really shouldn’t be up this early on a Sunday morning, but I had to drive Sam to work for 7am at CHOC this morning. Apparently, they were short on coaches, and need her there two hours earlier. Yeeech. I thought I had a sleep in this morning, after driving home from Toronto late last night, and staying up to watch one of my Sons of Anarchy episodes. Ahh well, I don’t feel too tired. Good thing, I’m eating well these days. Yesterday in Toronto at the GoodLife Ontario tournament was a lot...

Morning Pages Entry – April 26, 2014

Up early on a Saturday morning by 6am, and not feeling tired. That’s good, because I’m driving to Toronto today with Peter Urkedel for a GoodLife Ontario Tournament. Should be sort of fun. I’m also happy, that Sam decided not to stay out late last night after her semi-formal, and make me drive her home at 1am or something in the morning. I’m sure, that’s part of the reason, why I’m wide awake. Should really be a good time today. Probably my last squash event of the year, before any summer...

Morning Pages Entry – April 25, 2014

I’ve come to some conclusions during this entire editing process for the novel. One is that, it’s just more important to get the damn thing finished and out there in whatever condition it’s in. This is not going to be a pulitizer winning novel, so you may as well just finish it, and get on to the next one that might be. You need to get your first million words of published crap out there, before you really start doing the good stuff. Getting it 80% good, is about as good as your going to...