MacSweeny’s Maniacal Material Market
Welcome back! I missed you all last weekend. Last weekend was the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday weekend. I was preoccupied for the weekend visiting relatives. So, this will be a two week report. Because I can. In the first week, I literally had two time blocks the entire week to get anything done. Seriously, where does all the time go. How can there always be so much stuff that needs to get done at all hours of the waking day? Granted,…
…I can taste it… This week did not go as I had expected. My inability to stay asleep the last nearly two weeks has caught back up with me again. This made for a very long week and a very tiring week. It was hard to focus on work and my current projects at work. Which writing a an editor tool. Which requires a lot of thinking. And my brain was mush all week. It was hard. This also meant…
Woohoo! This week has been productive! I made the effort! I also had the time. I even managed to get to bed mostly on time and get up reasonably early. I hope I can keep the momentum going. I’m also making good use of Grammarly now. After going through this program, I feel like it’s got at least one set of extra eyes and gives me the second final pass over each story that I’ve been needing to do on…
Only two more weeks to go… 13 more shorts to go… and I’ve only got one of them pre-written. It’s going to be a full on mad dash from here to the end. Please pardon the mostly non-edited stories at this point. This has been quite fun so far. I just wish I had more time to visit other blogs also doing this crazy month long project. At least it’s getting me writing again. And then I can go back…
The noise started off quiet, unheard over the din of the shoppers as they milled in and out of shops, down vast arcade halls with a multitude of stalls, and marveled at the displays. In moments the sound became a low guttural grumble as the massive steam fed engines cranked out of idle. A small handful of people turned their heads towards the growing noise but continued their business. As the engines thundered to life, the rumbling pitched itself into…