Tag: day job

  • From “‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner’s Reassuring Life Advice For Struggling Artists”: It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. That’s the faith you have to have. Seven years. Somehow that…

  • Dog days of summer

    Okay, it’s not quite summer yet, but since the A/C at work was broken for a few days, it kinda felt like it. I don’t talk much about my day job, because we all know how that can go, but there have been a lot of changes in my work environment over the past couple…

  • Recklessly optimistic

    Wow, it feels like forever since I’ve blogged. Actually, it feels like forever since everything. This has been an extremely long week, but it has also been far better than I imagined it would be. Despite my history with caffeine-induced headaches, I’ve been running on Pepsi for the past couple of days. I also bought…

  • WIP update: Just topped 17,000 words and am getting to the heart of Chapter 5. Strangely, writing feels easier now that the two MCs (main characters) are split up. Not sure what exactly that means yet, but I do think it means something. I guess I’ll address it in the revisions. (That’s my new motto…

  • I’m… surviving. The past few days I’ve had almost no free time until dinner, and by then all I wanted to do was eat and then sleep. (Or at least veg out.) For the record, I’ve STILL met my word quotas every day. Despite really really really wanting to skip them and go to bed…