One Last Flight – Day Nine

Maybe its a classic case of ye olde fear of success, but there is definitely something about deadlines that always leads me to sabotage myself. I made the end of September my deadline to finish One Last Flight. I'm not going to make it. I dithered away the last six days with one distraction or … Continue reading One Last Flight – Day Nine →

One Last Flight – Day Eight

Micro Sprint: 203 words Macro Sprint : 758 words

One Last Flight – Day Seven

Micro Sprint: 256 words Macro Sprint: 616 words I haven't yet broken a thousand words a day and with only ten days left in the month, I doubt that I can finish this tale in time with only one writing session a day. I will begin adding a second one tomorrow. Might as well start … Continue reading One Last Flight – Day Seven →

One Last Flight – Day Six

Micro Sprint: 111 words Macro Sprint: 594 words

Hans Urs von Balthasar on Beauty

"We no longer dare to believe in Beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order to more easily dispose of it. Our situation today shows that Beauty demands for itself at least as much courage & decision as do Truth & Goodness, & she will not allow herself … Continue reading Hans Urs von Balthasar on Beauty →

One Last Flight – Day Five

Micro Sprint: 117 words Macro Sprint: 384 words Maybe allowing myself that day of editing before the work was complete wasn't such a good idea after all. The urge to edit gummed up my sprints, reducing my out put to my usual numbers. I will double down on the separation of writing and editing discipline.

One Last Flight – Day Four

I took yesterday off from the sprints and spent it editing instead. I felt really good after having actively suppressed my inner editor for the last few days. I never realized how much I enjoyed editing. Today I returned to the edit-less writing sprints: Micro Sprint: 101 words Macro Sprint: 566 words

One Last Flight – Day Three

Micro Sprint: 97 words Macro Sprint 615 words I took no more than a couple of hours to think about it before deciding that I will dedicate my NaNoWriMo efforts to the writing of The House of Islam, the second book of The Omega Crusade.

One Last Flight – Day two

Micro Sprint yielded 167 words and the Macro Sprint 666 words. A good day. NaNoWriMo is nearly upon us. I tried it out a few years back and failed miserably, couldn't so much as break beyond 5000 words in thirty days! I think it's time to try again. By week's end I must decide between … Continue reading One Last Flight – Day two →

One Last Flight – Day One, sort of…

It was supposed to be a short story but, One Last Flight had its own plans. I started it three weeks ago and after working on it for two-to-three hours, six days a week I managed to reach 6,892 words and the uneasy feeling I was only 1/4 of the way through the story. My … Continue reading One Last Flight – Day One, sort of… →