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The lack of posts on Fringe of late (well, okay, yesterday) is a result of a well-financed campaign by my bosses to keep me busy. I knew August would be bad, but this has been absolutely nuts! My life is a series of timed activities; shaking up the routine throws everything into a panic. I prescribe for myself regular doses of time away from Fringe because I am not a blogging fiend, but I’m beginning to think that I may need to do some after-work blogging. For now, I’ll wait for September to come along and reveal herself to be a friendly month for blogging or not.
Actually, September blogging may suffer as well. I’ve had it in my mind to finish writing Turnpike Blues, the damnable detective novel I began writing last November. The last chapter I finished was back in February. Since then, I’ve been almost completely dry in the creative writing department. Hence the blog.
Since I sort of vowed to myself that I would finish it by October 1, I’ve got to get a move on. One thousand words a night would do it in a week’s time, I think. Wish me luck, or leave a comment promising me a swift kick in the you-know-where if I don’t finish the novel. Look for the next and long-awaited chapter excerpt this week. Then October 1 begins pre-November novel preparation. I’ve not yet begun thinking about the details, though a kernel is waiting for a little heat. It’ll happen sooner than I like, I think. Then November brings the new novel to the fore, and I try to remain sane while disgorging more than 50,000 words into some semblance of order. Ahhh, I love writing!
I have some articles lined up for Fringe for this week. A review of Hero is in the works, and a humour column about the lameness of cell phones used in lieu of lighters at rock concerts is swirling around in my brain. Also a public apology, since I like to remain accountable to my readers for gaffes I commit.
That’s my online life in a nutshell. Stay with me as I hack through this final, wheezy day of August and pretend I’m looking forward to the next three months.
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Finish! Finish! Finish. Get the words on the pages. Even though they probably won’t be the right ones and rewriting will be needed.
The satisfaction in finishing is wonderful and the regret at not is galling.
Finish the novel? What happened to your race training? A while back you were starting to train for a Marathon, did you finish that project? Don’t start a project you don’t intend to finish. Worse yet, don’t intend to finish but don’t.
I talked to some people about running a marathon, and was advised that I should shoot for a little more reasonable goal, since I’d never done any running a long-term event like that could be dangerous without proper training, and even then it could still be dangerous. So in lieu of that, I’m running in a 5K event on the 25th and then an 8K on October 31.
Not entirely successful in my original goal, but at least I’m still doing something to that end.
As for the novel, this has been in my “garden” waiting to be harvested since last November. It’s the last month before I break out my scythe and gather the crops. One doesn’t write a novel in a day, though I’ve heard of it being done in a weekend. My particular situation is borne of a dry writing spell and a lack of time, both of which aren’t entirely conducive to finishing a project of such length. Nevertheless, I am going to see it through, despite your appraisal of my “intentions”.