The all too infrequent update

The all too infrequent update.

It is here.

What have I been up to?  Working.  Work usually slows this time of year but I haven’t seen any let up this year until this week really. 

Kids.  The usual.  Having a kid is hard work.  Having triplets is a little like trying to manage an Alaskan Gremlin farm in a rainstorm; during one of those periods where night lasts for weeks at a time.

Writing Wednesdays.  Or more appropriate, Editing Wednesdays, but no days start with “E.”  I think I have 5 sessions under my belt so I feel confident posting about it here.  Bonus: I feel good about the work I’m doing.  The editing goes well, if painstakingly slowly.  I’ve been editing/rewriting what I am only now realizing was a horribly unfinished product.  Like dynamited stone I started the project but needed to break out the chisel for the fine work.  Revisit.  Revise.  Remove.  Reorganize.  Shorten.  I’ve lightly redone the opening to One Bad Thing to remedy some “jumpiness” concerns from Renee.  Overall I’m happier with the semi-final product.  Whether it will ever constitute a finished product, I’m not sure.  Fiction isn’t my “work” writing style, or even the style I’m trained in, and I flounder just a bit for footholds.

Updates

I haven't posted in so long that my RSS feed at work doesn't have any posts from me in it, so it must be time for an update:

- My 100 pushup challenge failed miserably. More miserably than last time. This time it took a whole week to fail. Not like last time where I followed it for like a month. This time around the fail was dedicated. It was determined.

- On the positive, I started doing 200 pushups per day, and segued into doing a push-up based workout routine from the Bible that is essentially a push up and a burpee done back to back. Envy the muscle; envy the muscle.

- I owe a shout out to my sister on two accounts: first, for copy editing the book I wrote for my kids and wife. Thank you. Also, for giving me motivation to start reediting my book. I haven't actually started yet, but I'm envisioning starting. I'm thinking really long and hard about it, so that is something. I think I'm going about it a different way this time: editing online rather than in hard copy form. Printed words are for suckers and the old, right?

- I have nearly constant money worries, even though I'm/we're OK. I've always worried more about money than was probably healthy, but now its taken on a whole new variety of torture: Instead of just worrying about money, I now worry that I'll lose my job, never find another, and my kids won't respect me. Nice.

I think that is it for now. Another new post coming soon.