strokin’?

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I’m re-reading the scene I wrote yesterday and I have questions about my mindset.

For example, I used the word dude instead of dug, and referred to someone getting on their hands and knees as being on “all floor”.

I might be glitching out.

Target: 1500 words
Written: 584 words, novel: Father Lightning

Read: The Legend Of Bagger Vance, Steven Pressfield
Comics: Gen 13 v4 21-24
Music: 70s Soft Rock Essentials, Various (I mean, I did this for my wife, and while I'm cool with stuff like Ride, Captain, Ride, Ooh La La, and Elton John, like who the fuck thought Boz Scaggs was good? Take the most generic, corporate, boring fucking bullshit with no heart, no intelligence and no emotional content and put it over music that isn't even fucking catchy? It's no wonder punk rock blew up. Between Boz Scaggs and Dan Fogelberg, I wanted to pop my eardrums.)

good saturday

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Also, super quiet day, capped off with a very good dinner (though this time not made by me).

Also, I discovered salted caramel white Russians.

That’s fucking dangerous.

Target: 1500 words
Written: 2304 words, novel: Father Lightning

Read: The Legend Of Bagger Vance, Steven Pressfield
Comics: Gen 13 v4 17-20
Music: 66 Breakout!, MC5!

good friday

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You know what? It was a good Friday.

Time off, time to write, time to read and play video games?

I’ll fuckin’ take it.

Target: 1500 words
Written: 1428 words, novel: Father Lightning

Read: Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone , J.K. (don't call me Joanne) Rowling
Comics: Gen 13 v4 13-16
Music: 54-40 Essentials, 54-40 (nice to love you, baby)

welcome to the shitshow

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Holy fuck. Couldn’t focus on anything at all today.

Failure of a day. Failure of a man.

I think maybe it’s time to go.

Target: 1500 words
Written: 878 words, novel: Father Lightning

Read: Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, J.K. (don't call me TERF) Rowling
Comics: Gen 13 v4 10-12, Gen 13: Armageddon 1
Music: 50 Cent Essentials, 50 Cent

unproductive start of april

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Well, that shit went way off the rails.

Way off.

Target: 1500 words
Written: 310 words, novel: Father Lightning

Read: Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling (look, I know, but it is a good book, and before she radicalized on the trans issue, she was actually quite liberal.  Calling people out is one thing, but she's a perfect example of how weaponizing outrage can actually turn possible allies into monstrous enemies - not that she doesn't need to take responsibility for her beliefs, but all those angry fans ragefarming against her definitely caused her to double down, over and over, until she's little more than a MAGA mouthpiece now.)
Comics: Gen 13 v4 6-9
Music: 4:13 Dream, The Cure

productive end of march

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I mean, look at that word count. I haven’t hit three thousand words in a day in a long, long time.

I’m proud of me.

At least today.

Target: 1500 words
Written: 3043 words, novel: Father Lightning

Read: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Tom Wolfe (like Hunter S. Thompson, if Thompson were into status and name dropping and not drugs and rebellion.  Got a bit repetitive in his descriptions - how many times can you refer to bouffant hair, or his weird obsession with women's butts, or tits pointed straight up like a torpedo in launch?)
Comics: Gen 13 v4 2-5
Music: 45 Or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough To Go On Our Other Records, NOFX

fiscal year end

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Not my end. My fiscal end always feels imminent.

Nope, just my workplace. Which means reviews, scrambles, last minute struggles, and hopefully, a fucking raise, finally.

Lord knows I’ve done the work.

Target: 1500 words
Written: 1648 words, novel: Father Lightning

Read: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Tom Wolfe
Comics: Gen 13 v3 14-16, Gen 13 v4 1
Music: 420station.com, Bill Hicks (I don't know, man, that's what it's listed as on my iPod, and yes, I still have one of those)