Week of: 6/20/26

A day late, today, though hopefully not a dollar short.

Well, that too, I'm sure.

Writing-wise, I didn't have my most productive week ever, though I did start work on a new short story... and I have plans for another, which I might have to try to bang out, first. I'm really leaning into my Summer Reading project, and trying to take big bites of Karenina -- the only way I feel I have a real shot at completing it.

Speaking of which, I'm going to wrap this up to go read so I can get that time in before the family wakes. Writing isn't just writing, you know? It's writing in context, the context of one's life. It's like in martial arts -- and how you can't (or oughtn't) throw an attack without keeping yourself balanced. Or maybe I don't know what I'm talking about and just need more sleep...

But that's just it. Sleep. Food. Reading. Family. Friends. Work. All of the things that come up on a day-to-day basis, all of the little challenges along the way -- that's the true test of writing, beyond whatever it is that makes it onto the page, and that the reader will never know, never see, except in the myriad ways it becomes transformed into plots and characters and the rest. The story is only the beginning of the story.

But I'm putting my reading off. Till next time.