Labor Day: Writer at Work

Full carafe of coffee and fresh ice in water glass. Check.

Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C Minor in full trumpet on Pandora . Check.

Braver Deeds prepped and ready on Scrivener . Check.

An empty day. Check.

Enthusiasm, motivation, determination. Check, check, and check.

On this Labor Day, I have time off from the Day Job and a reasonable stretch of hours in front of me. I also have the closing chapters of my work-in-progress (the aforementioned novel Braver Deeds ) waiting to be written. And that’s exa...