an exercise in percussive maintenance
Category: A Bit Of Silliness
Apparently my post on the broken spambot has been taken as a challenge by the other spambots out there – that post has now already received seven additional spam comments (with none on my other posts). And some of them are pretty good, even referencing the post itself. A sign of intelligence?
Here’s the poll.
I’ve been blogging consistently every day now for an entire week. I think I’ll take today off as a reward.
(And yes, the several levels of irony have not been lost on me: writing a blog post to say I’m not writing one today; rewarding myself for consistent posting by skipping a day…what can I say? I do stuff like that.)
I wonder what happens if I post it as an aside…
No, this is not a review of Stephen King’s book (though that’s coming, once I’m done reading it). I merely wanted to write something about writing and most post titles on my blog begins with ‘On’. Not much you can do with that. Maybe I should start thinking up more creative post titles…
But what I wanted to say is, writing is hard. I was told when I started out that it took discipline and perseverance, and that I must develop a thick skin to deal with critique, criticism and rejection, and that it’s a lonely road, and that success isn’t guaranteed, but no one actually said it’s hard. Even if you enjoy it, it’s hard.
I finally finished the second chapter of my novel yesterday. In fact, I wrote most of it yesterday. I had started with it in the middle of February. Many days passed when I wrote not a single word; when I did not even open the file on my computer. Continue reading “On Writing”
Yesterday evening at 8:30 South African time I became an uncle for the second time. No, please don’t offer any congratulations. That’s the whole point of this post. This morning I made the obligatory calls to my father and stepmother (their first grandchild) and to my step-sister and brother-in-law to offer my congratulations. Then my wife asked a very intriguing question: For what am I congratulating them? What did they achieve? Continue reading “On Congratulations”
Happy New Year. Don’t you think it is very fitting that I write my first post of 2013 on the seventh day of the year? Especially since my one New Year’s resolution was to write every day this year. And sure, I could have written the post and then set it to be published on the first, but honestly, then I’d have had nothing to write about. Now at least I get to write about not writing.
I wonder where this whole thing of New Year’s Resolutions got started. (No, I’m not going to check Wikipedia. That’s a distraction and a writer’s worst enemy.) In any event, I think the term is a misnomer. Continue reading “On Resolutions and Intentions (good or otherwise)”
if all else fails...use a hammer 