Friday was off to a rocky start, even though I had taken it as a vacation day. Or, perhaps, -because- I had taken it as a vacation day is what led me into a half day of doddling, watching a movie, a random nap, cooking some lunch, etc. I got nothing down on paper before…

So I sat down last night to work out a better tactic to move this piece forward in a direction I could sink my teeth into, or if not, at least a direction I could see. I failed to that end yet again, as I still have no idea what I am writing about, even…

My Twitter update last night pretty much said it all: “@AcdntlPoet… pushed through a hard fought 1658 words in an hour and a half. Today felt like blood from a stone, but the words still came.” I was exhausted, physically and emotionally from the long day of work that was behind me. Because of that,…

Also behind me is another 1831 words. Marking a grand total (as of Day 5’s start) at: 4,262 words in 4 days. As I intimated previously, last night’s effort would be focused on a different character. This worked well to get me started, but things soon swung back to the initial character’s focus. A scene…