Orson drew me a picture a couple weeks back. It’s a drawing of our house. He drew a line on it and had me write in my name for him. I took this one to work and put it up in my cube.
From Orson
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So just a little background; I started working for my current employer back in December 2007. Their reporting was a mess, as were some other things, but now we’ve got a brand-new, from scratch data warehouse. Our internal team worked with an external team to build it out and it transitioned over to us officially maybe a month or so ago. Now that we’ve got it, we’re uncovering a few things that need to be fixed or re-engineered. We expected that; it was a tight deadline and we were already aware of certain areas that would required our attention once the transition occurred. Read more…
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The chain runs so deep
well below the choppy surface
the links so impossibly strong, made of so many realities.
Lower and lower into the black abyss
threatening stability,
I’d follow if I could.
Would it be too much to ask?
It would. Read more…
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So my stated goal was to update my writing journal at least once per week; I’m finding now-almost a month after-that that might be a little too ambitious. I’ve been so swamped with work and the kids that I just haven’t had the time or energy to do it. I have a couple posts I started but then I just ran out of steam half-way through.
I’m responsible for bringing on a new section of our data warehouse and the deadline is fast approaching. They’re looking at sometime in November and it’s already almost November. That means I’m scrambling to get this finished and, just like tonight, I’m working some overtime to make that happen. That’s cutting into my “creative” time.
I’ve also been sick for the past four or five days and had to stay home from work yesterday. I really felt like shit. There’s no way I’m going to be able to churn out anything in that state. Read more…
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So now that I’ve been back in “writer mode” for a bit I’m falling into the writer’s mindset again. Just about everything in life is an opportunity for reflection, even some of the most mundane things. But isn’t mundanity somewhat subjective? I feel myself wanting to write about these things, to extrapolate on them primarily, to some end that might not be obvious. I feel compelled to write something down, that transference from the brain to written word so important.
The enemies of this process-at least for me-are lack of time and distraction. The real conundrum though is when the lack of time and the distractions are spawned of one’s own choosing. For instance, my lack of time and my distractions come from my work and my family, primarily. In the case of my family I chose that, I continue to choose it, and have no regrets about choosing this distraction. They force me to interact with other humans, they keep me from becoming a recluse or a digitized version of a real person. They provide me with real life, with experience, and with feelings I’ve never had before.
In other words, in so many ways they’re actually my muse. Read more…
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Cold.
You’ve been here for lifetimes, clinging, frozen.
Alone.
The rest of them are dead, the ones you left behind.
Now you’re alone.
You’re permanent now, you’re forever now;
fused, bonded, a macabre embrace. Read more…
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The goal: write a poem in five minutes.
Burning out so quickly,
exquisite randomness, hollow vision.
How many of them were there?
And does it matter anymore?
When dangerous things aren’t keenly kept,
whispers silenced by the empty night. Read more…
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So I’ve decided to keep a writing journal. I figured I’d update it at least weekly to ensure I keep it in the forefront of my mind and in it I’ll chronicle the creative writing process for me. I’m not a professional writer by any means but I enjoy writing (and enjoy writing fiction in particular) and have found that I tend to let myself get distracted easily and end up not writing at all.
So this little “journal” of sorts will really just be postings that fall under the writing journal category. I’m looking forward to enforcing a bit of discipline back into my writing schedule again while trying to balance it with the hectic life I now have. Should interesting, at least for me.
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Here are some pictures of Orson and me 103 stories up in the Sears Tower while in Chicago for Lollapalooza this past August. It’s even scarier up there than it looks.
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I added the remaining 4 fictions works I’ve written to the site. I call these “practice” stories since they were written so long ago and were primarily written to provide an opportunity to get some much-needed practice. I’m giving them their day in the sun, mostly because I just feel obligated to them. :) Read more…
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