Well, I broke the Talisblog. I took a night off of uploading, allowing the writing to be done by hand again and when I came back to all things normal tonight I discovered that there was an update to be done. The update did not go well. Facebook killed the code. Facebook always kills the code. It is the result of some unfortunate coding on their end and the lie of 100% compatibility. So here we are, just me and a once blank MS Word page and less than ten minutes left on the clock.
I’ve been swirling around a lot of big ideas and unable to lock down a single one. Perhaps it is the endless din of barking dogs that surrounds my backyard (seriously, shut your dog up. It is nearly midnight!) or it could be the heaviness of wanting to write a novel that is an instant best seller without having what I would refer to as a best-selling idea in mind.
Lately I’m all about ideas, though not entirely about writing. I’m about parenting and teaching and games and building and a dozen other areas of my life that don’t necessarily find me home alone in a dimly lit office. I think the previous paragraph holds the key: I need to do low stakes for a while. I need to just write stories and not get caught up in creating something award winning. It is a task far easier said than done.