So I guess I'm writing just as much today as any other day? Why? Because even if it's my girlfriend's birthday, there are moments when I actually do get some free time. And I haven't reached a stage where I need 3-4 hours to write in a day. 

That's what...

When Temujo  arrived in the middle-lands, which he considered the westlands, he was astounded by how little grass there was. Every step his horse took there was grainy sand. It caused him to wonder how the people here ate anything at all. It was no wonder they were so easy...

Cool, so today's my girlfriend's birthday. As part of our celebration I'm writing much less and dining indoors at a restaurant for the first time since last year. 

What's on the itinerary? The best  sushi restaurant in town and a  tapas bar. I'm also getting my first haircut since this...

It's a Korean tradition to make seafood pancakes -- or buchimgae-- when it rains. There's two reasons for this. First is audible, the sizzling in the oiled pan sounds eerily like rain. Second is the cool calm that follows on a rainy day.

buchimgae on a cool, rainy afternoon....

The toughest thing to do as a writer is to step away from a project without stepping away from writing itself. I think this is what distinguishes beginners from intermediates. A beginner must have a project they are inspired by to be able to write. Once inspiration from that project...

I was now using Gmail like a dating app. Only that I had a single prospect and I was uninterested in finding others. Plus who else would chat with me like this over email.

I think it was easy for Jeannie and I to carry long-winding multi-threaded conversations over email...

I'm writing this to document how i felt today about writing Unfair Yours Truly .

The output is not significantly better. The words itself are no better than any of the words I've written in the past 191 days on this site....

Later while alone it what I wanted when around Jeannie became clear. It went beyond her flesh, past the mere material -- just as how the story of a book is worth more than the ink and paper that contain it, 

I'd been daydreaming too much about my meetings with...

Many things I grew up being taught turned out to be backwards. Like the fear of dirt my mom instilled in me. I never actually feared dirt like I did monsters in the dark, but her binary way of treating dirt as something filthy like feces meant that I categorized...

A common pitfall in storytelling is not choosing to tell a story that leaves the character changed forever. I was sitting outside feeling summer breeze under a tree when this thought came to me:

We fear changing our characters forever because we fear it in our own lives. We want to...