I just got home from another day in the office. This is the 10th post in a row. I’m not sure it will be very long, but we’ll see what we can do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The thing about going into the office is that I have to get up early, and I don’t get home until late. My day is shrunk, and I’m generally more tired by the end of it. After two days in a row, I’m exhausted. Almost like having a cat in heat, yowling in the wee hours of the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m tired, but it’s Wednesday night, and I want to play games with my friends. I still have some packing to do, but it doesn’t usually take me very long to get ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The only event in my mind is the one directly in front of me. Arisia 2024. I’ve never been to it, and I don’t think I’m going to know very many people there. I’m not on any of the programming. All I know at this point is that I’m going to work the Water Dragon table as much as I can, and hope that I do a good job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a writer, it’s extremely important to finish your projects. It’s equally important for programmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When is a story finished? When the writer types “The End”? After the final edit from your publisher? After the last copy of it has been sold?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The line is different for different stories, I think. There’s a few stories I’ve written that will never see the light of day. There are some that I started and abandoned. Then there The Repossessed Ghost<\/em> which is out in the world, and One for the Road<\/em> which will be out in the world Soon\u00ae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I believe that a story can be finished multiple times. Or, a writer is called upon to finish multiple stages. It is a milestone to finish the first draft. It is another milestone to complete the next revision, and the revisions after that. There is a finishing point after submitting the story to your critique group and taking in their feedback. And for some of us lucky few, there are stages during the publishing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re struggling as a writer, it’s good to narrow your focus to the stage you’re on, and just finish that. Finish the first draft. If that’s too big a target, finish the chapter. Or finish the paragraph. Some days, it’s all you can do to finish each sentence. Finishing one can give strength to finish the next, until you have a whole pile of sentences that hopefully, someday, you can shape into something presentable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just got home from another day in the office. This is the 10th post in a row. I’m not sure it will be very long, but we’ll see what we can do! Personal News The thing about going into the office is that I have to get up early, and I don’t get home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53590,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53588\/revisions\/53590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}