by Rob | Jul 7, 2021 | Writing
Hello, folks, and welcome to the second day of my journey toward 1.5 million words by the end of 2021. Today was a much more productive day for me in terms of writing. To my rough eye and fuzzy math, I managed a little over 1.5 times the word count I achieved...
by Rob | Jul 6, 2021 | Writing
The final volume of my Cole & Srexx series, The Fires of Aurelius, went live today. I finished it back around June 24th, and I have since struggled with my writing being fun. In the wake of completing Fires, I nibbled around the edges of my next major project, The...
by Rob | May 25, 2021 | Writing
I’m winding down for the day, and I wanted to start the habit of an end-of-day post to share my writing progress. Sadly, today’s progress is not what I would’ve liked. I wrote 3,217 words of new fiction, which brought my monthly total to 86,682 words...
by Rob | May 24, 2021 | Writing
It is always important to challenge ourselves. And beyond those challenges we choose, there are always some we struggle to overcome. For example, I am constantly fighting what I call “sleep drift.” When left to my own devices, my sleep cycle will settle...
by Rob | May 21, 2021 | Writing
This is an old post involving my struggles to increase my output. I originally published it on 14 March 2019. It’s always good to improve. Whether you’re a woodworker, a painter, or even a writer. Each person is better than s/he thinks s/he is, but...
by Rob | May 21, 2021 | Random Thoughts
Ah, the Oxford comma. Few things have been more divisive in the English-speaking world. I originally posted this on 5 March 2019. A Little Bit About Me It has been said that I am something of a grammarian. A colleague even opined one day in the office that the...
by Rob | May 21, 2021 | Random Thoughts
Independence Day 2017. I remember the complex feelings this experience evoked in me. I feel like a reached the correct conclusion, but it’s always good to re-evaluate in the face of new experience or new information. Remember… we’re all...
by Rob | May 21, 2021 | Tech Geekery
A little while ago, I wrote a couple articles about learning why backups are important and, then, following through with the creation of said backups. If you managed to miss them on my incredibly busy site (try not to trip on the sarcasm, there), you can read them...
by Rob | May 21, 2021 | Tech Geekery
I originally posted this on 15 October 2016. And I’m here to tell you, it was was little bit of a fight. I still remember going back and forth between my SSH session and the Amazon S3 bucket, looking for new files. I also remember the cheering excitement when a...
by Rob | May 21, 2021 | Tech Geekery
I originally posted this on 14 October 2016, and to this day, I can still feel the icy claws clenching my heart as I realized what I’d done. So…as part of my day job, I write a series of articles about technology issues, and a few months back, one of my...
