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 Okay, it’s been a few days since I last put anything out here and I promised that one hour a day I would spend working writing.  In fact I have.  I have been either reading The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing or I have been thinking about how to formulate all the disparate pieces of my story.  How to bring them into a complete and cohesive structure. On top of that I have also been writing stuff for an episode of The Masonic Roundtable.

I am going to be a little honest here.  The one piece that I have the most difficulty with is not so much creating the idea of each of my characters and in some cases bringing them almost to life but naming them. I mean, I know some names that I might associate with bullies and want to use that but I get that naming association with people in my real life and the last thing I want is for them to figure out I created a character, even loosely, based on them. I know, I’ll work it out eventually and most likely won’t run into too much trouble with old bullies or clichés either.

It’s definitely not easy to remain focused on the goal of writing every day. I want to but like with so much else that we may want to do, it is easy to get distracted.  Now I will admit that next week, it may be a little less likely that I will spend much time writing.  I am on PTO from my regular job and much of that time off will be spent clearing out a lot of things in storage and mostly getting rid of it.  We have accumulated quite a lot of disposable stuff in the 10 years we have lived in this house.  Not all of it will go but as Marie Kondo says “if it doesn’t bring you pleasure, throw it away.”

Look for me to post only a few short pieces over the next week and a half. In case I don’t get back to you all before, have a wonderful Labor Day weekend.

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