Sam Reeves Blog: Somebody Broke Thursday and Friday

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Somebody Broke Thursday and Friday

Life in General...

One day you win the lottery; the next, colon cancer!

- Harlan Ellison

I don't want this to become the woe-is-me blog. I suffer from depression, anxiety, and lifelong ouchies, and so it would be easy to forget there are people out there far worse off than I am.

I also don't want to produce the here's-your-daily-dose-of-sugar blog. Life just ain't like that. (When I was in junior high school, I asked my eye doctor to tint the lenses of my glasses rose colored. I thought the irony was hilarious.)

What works best for me is what psychologists call "radical acceptance" and my wife calls "Suck it the hell up and get over it."

Anyway, this is a long, preamble way of saying: I didn't blog for the last couple of days, because they sucked. They sucked in that mother-in-law-in-hospital, somebody-stole-your-bank-account sort of way. One of those days that you mean to pour a glass of cola and a few minutes later realize you have just neatly placed a couple of ice cubes on a saucer and don't remember doing it. You know? They happen to all of us. I just assumed you didn't want to hear that kind of blogging therapy.

New diet?

Should writers let bad days stop them from writing? As a general rule, no. Give them the chance and bad days start outnumbering the good. Then again, taking an occasional day off to prevent burnout often sets up better days on the other side of the break.

Don't make it a habit--unless you enjoy stacks of unfinished stories--but every once in a while, put an Out of Order sign on your office door.

The Writing and Current Projects...

None. Same reason as above. I found some time to brainstorm the main character of the Af novel, using a technique that John D. Brown and Larry Correia talk about in their Life, the Universe, and Everything lecture (LTUE). For anyone who struggles with ideas, it is really a great series of videos. Here's a link to Brown's website where he writes about the techniques in detail and provides links to his videos:

John D. Brown's website

By the way, no charts for the manuscript totals, since they did not change from last time.