Category: 2023

Blaugust!

It’s been a week since I started my Blaugust journey. As with every event centered around a month of activity, at this point maintaining a consistent writing habit feels like a very doable thing. Being a NaNoWriMo veteran, there’s part of me that feels some similar feelings as I go through this practice of daily …

So Many Parentheticals…

The least conducive activity to writing (for me anyway) is having our TV on. Regardless, it’s our most-used appliance, for everything from Netflix marathons to hopscotching through YouTube’s algorithm. In this age of smart TVs, practically every program or movie is at our fingertips. There’s dozens of new things friends and the majority of the …

Whomp whomp!

A year ago, our household tested positive for COVID for the first time. We’d spent so much time and effort avoiding it, and then it showed up and was entirely unpleasant. As the anniversary of our infection approached, my wife’s job saw an outbreak beginning to bloom, and I started seeing more references to people …

Blaugust?

Yesterday, I threw together my writing prompt based post, went through the ritual I’ve seen others use to share their post on any algorithm based social media site, and then immediately complained about it to my best internet friend. I’m sure there’s some definitive information somewhere on the internet, about what you should and shouldn’t …