Tag: writing

Strawberry Blonde

Tonight’s writing fuel. Part of a mixed-four pack procured from Capitol Cider House at the DC Farmers’ Market on our way back from Myrtle Beach. It’s hard to find actual dry cider in New Jersey; this is it, and it’s good. “Strawberry Blonde.”

There are no objective metrics

Kristine Kathryn Rusch has a post up today on “How Writers Fail”; the topic is “competition.” Specifically, the thesis is that viewing yourself as competing with other writers will tend to provide excuses not to write, because there’s always a worse writer doing better than you. If you’re competing against someone less skilled and they… Continue reading There are no objective metrics

To every path its season

I’ve written before about how lifting is good practice for writing: It teaches you the value of consistency and incremental progress, it shows you how long it really doesn’t take to do more than you ever thought you could when you began. I’ve written a number of books, rarely on more than 1000 words a… Continue reading To every path its season