Falling behind on my work due. It feels like letting down the team. The struggle is not about time on task so much as it is about mental blocks over certain parts of the assignment. I’ve been trying to right 20 yr wrongs in this work, and I believe I dug through the thick of that. Tomorrow ought to be a breakthrough morning of words. I expect to be fully done by Sunday with the main part of it. Then I’ll have another 6500 words to get in before I am completely done and on to the next one.
One truth about my writing is that once I get up to speed it is easier to keep going than it is to sit for a while, regroup, and try to get up to speed again. It is better then to keep writing and keep on task then go through the boom to bust cycle of writing that feels so much more natural. Often nature isn’t the way when it comes to writing. Nurture is–especially in terms of getting into the rhythm of the words.
Some Thoughts:
- Want to beat me at a spelling bee? Make me spell rhytyhm without a spell check. I tried it right there and screwed that up. Seriously has to be some kind of mental block…
- Giants play this weekend… woo!
- My kid played yesterday and learned that, in spite of his position coach calling him the better player, he is not going to be the starter this season (or next likely). A coach’s son is the starter and you can guess why…
- Watson’s suspension was increased to 11 games and he was also fined. Am I happy about it? No. It isn’t about what he did. It IS about how the league is focused on bringing the hammer down on player behaviors but an owner also accused of not only sexual misconduct but creating a culture of misconduct AND robbing the league and its fans is not getting anything more than a slap on the wrist. Basically his TEAM was fined and he was forced to relinquish day to day operations. In other words, he was forced to tell someone else what to do in day to day ops and given the power to fire that someone should they choose not to listen. NFL sucks…
- College NIL is.. interesting. Check out what Bijan Robinson got!