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I spent, well, most of last 27 hours playing board games (I lost miserably, but that’s not the point here, ok?). During a light six hour sleep this morning, I suddenly realized that while it is next to impossible to create a good novel out of a board game (at least the occasions when I’ve [...]

This has been time that’s more like a pond than a stream. Only, in my case, it’s been that sort of a pond that is rumored to have an abyss in its bottom, or a sunken castle, or both. I have thought much, learned much about myself, and by sheer thinking about who am I [...]

I have been stalling on a story for a few days, a story that is basically all planned out, has some reason to it and is, all in all, a good material. Now I’m going to put this baby aside and never really return to it because…well, because I figured out why it won’t work. [...]

Yesterday, I practically beat myself over the head to stop trying to write and stop editing. While I do realize that there are situations when a writer must do everything to finish editing or start writing or whatever, this is *not* the situation. I am not under a deadline, I am not broke because I [...]

I’m one of those people whose performance drastically alters whenever the air pressure changes. Last night, it started snowing – something I could have expected since yesterday, I didn’t even reach 700 words. But that whas what I’ve been expecting. As long as I keep up with my best wordcounts, I’ll be fine.

So. At the first glance, St.Petersburg really screwed my writing because for the whole 3 days I wrote nothing useful and Monday wasn’t better. I sincerely hope that I’ll recover today (but don’t count on it). But it was the first time I used metro. I also spent several hours scribbling unrelated notes in my [...]

Yesterday, I barely did 164 words on Vega. I did, however, submit some stuff, and I was quite busy with RL things. Today, I’m dead sleepy, but at least not hungover.

I accomplished n-o-t-h-i-n-g today. Also,