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I'm not going to explain that one, buddy. A blog.



         I'm writing to my first and favorite audience here, but you're welcome to read along. There'll be life stuff and musings and boring updates on writing progress. No, like, seriously boring. That's actually why I'm doing this; I just assume, rather hopefully, that there'll be life stuff and musings, too.
February 17, 2026 at 3:04am
February 17, 2026 at 3:04am
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Goals:

         1.) Open up and read at least one line of a Susan file every day.
Yeah, sorry, no; that started to eat away at my soul, so I had to abandon it. What a terrible idea. Why did I come up with that? Absolute trash.

Yeah, I know why; I wanted to make Susan the priority, but this forced her to be the priority and neither of us like that shit. I'm not sure how to remake this goal, but I am thinking on it. The way my life is with shit I'm not sharing here means I have to be careful or risk a fucking meltdown, but I am thinking about it. Most importantly, I'm thinking about Susan.

         2.) Enter every monthly official WdC writing contest: Pff, how dare you doubt me, when the goal actually sounds smart. *Ha* You shut up about other failed goals, you stalker—because only a stalker would remember the one other time I made this a goal (and failed). Ahem. Anyway, I have roughly a third of my February [Gothic] story written with the rest of it in my mind, and I really like it. I'm a little peeved that the place I stopped for the night seemed a much more clear break in my head than it turned out to be when I got there. But I'm off tomorrow and really (delusionally; because daytime brings the guilt of so many things to be done) optimistic I might find some writing time.

Hey, what was that in parenthesis? I think I'll ignore it.

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February 4, 2026 at 10:19am
February 4, 2026 at 10:19am
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I already suck. I did not look at a Susan file yesterday or the day before. One goal for the year, pff, failed already. I am not spiraling over it, because I did do some free-writing both those days. Nothing good for future use, but good exercise nonetheless.

I can't remember the last time I did writing exercises like this, and that's bad. I know they help.

In other Goal news, we have Gothic as the prompt in February's "Journey Through Genres: Official Contest"  and I've already thought of and rejected at least five story ideas. I had one I really liked while driving yesterday, but then I had to think about business and now I can't remember it. This is bad, because I will totally waste the month waiting for that idea to revisit me.

Lastly, my final "thing" I had before I considered my working area cleaned and ready for new writing was to wrap up the Lodestar Contest. It is! It's wrapped! I had a wildly fantastic time running this contest over the years, and especially these final rounds! Please see my Notebook post for the final results:

"Note: The Lodestar Contest item will soon be deleted...."
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