Distractions

 You may have noticed that I've been missing from cyberspace for a few weeks. My excuse, the distractions were just too much. In my inspired post to yesterday's prompt over at Creative Copy Challenge, I actually started out with an apology for missing so long:

*Missed coming here for a while. I think it’s actually harder to write at home than when I was abroad. Need to get away from here I guess.

Meeting a New Old Goal

I had this up on Twitter yesterday, but I suppose I might as well announce this here: I'm using 750words.com to try to keep a goal for myself. That goal is to write at least one thousand words a day. With writing seven hundred and fifty words, another two hundred should be nothing.

New Idea for Creating Characters Out of Thin Air

Something strange has occurred recently to me. Let's call it Writer's Block (although it's probably more akin to procrastination from an overdose of stress). And, as we all know, Writer's Block comes as monsters in all shapes and sizes, not just the cube with eyeballs I usually vision it to be. The little monster dangling around my neck of late roadblocked the way I conjure up characters. Some would say that's horrible. I, however, would disagree. It has forced me to find an alternative to my classic way. And this may actually be a turning point for me as a fiction writer.

My Good Excuse

I have a good excuse this time. I've been at a camp in Stockholm since Wednesday. It snuck up on me and I forgot to leave you guys a little memo here. My apologies. Stick around this week. The boring old routines are about to return, so there will be a lot more writings to come.

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Alas, My Lazy Day Hath Come!

Matt here, and letting you all know I have ideas for a couple of webfic serials churning themselves about in my mind. I haven't thought of either idea for a couple of days, but they're still there, somewhere locked behind a door in the labyrinth of my consciousness. Usually I forget things like that. So perhaps this is a sign that I should continue on with these ideas, hopefully opening one up tomorrow, and planning it out, at least for a couple of weeks.

And, as I have written in the title of this post, today is a self-stated lazy day. I set aside today to read a bunch of short fiction, both old and new, to inspire myself towards something and want to get back into the rhythm of writing. For the last month it has been far too easy to listen to my friends beckoning of attention rather than listen to the creative being which resides here inside of myself. It's time now for more writing and better time management on my part.

But from here on out I make the promise of trying to write a little bit more and post it here for all to reas. And I'll try to keep doing it conistently as well (i.e. Mondays and Thursdays with CCC, bringing back Fiction Fridays, #thursdaytales/#saturdayshortstories over at io9, and Thursday Tales inspired by pictures). So, if any of you notice me slipping back into this lazy stage, I ask of you to help me by sending me a little message of encouragement (or even a rant to kick my butt back into shape).

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A More Organic Future (And Maybe Not So Green)

Our brains have somehow been trained to think of the future to be this bright, cold, metallic place. What comes to my mind is flying cars, lots of glass, and robots without personalities. But that might not be the only future in store for us. Today, I want to challenge that idea. I want to offer up a different setting for the days beyond tomorrow. What if instead of becoming more metallic and cold, it gets warmer and more organic?