We love the progress so far, but having to spend every free moment for the past few weekends shopping, selecting, running electrical, cleaning, hauling junk, or otherwise connecting the dots on the construction process, I have officially had zero time to write. I’ve barely blogged, one might have noticed. Thus, I blame the [...]

I’m sitting here looking at the collision of three simple facts:
1) This post is officially number one thousand, four hundred and sixty. That means forty posts from now this blog will officially contain fifteen hundred published entries of varying quality.
2) I (regrettably) haven’t been writing much here lately, if for no other reason than [...]

November has been a chore so far. A little more than half way through the month and yesterday we stopped to catch our breath for the next few laps.
Deadlines.
Construction.
Obligations.
Obliterations.
Tickets.
Taxes.
Timings.
Travel.
Waiting.
Watching.
Meeting.
Designing.
Spending.
Buying.
Walking.
Running.
Patiently waiting for someone to press pause.
I’ll resume normal operations when normal resumes itself.

I know I mentioned that I’d be uber-posting episodes from the novella here this week, but I’ve needed to re-evaluate that particular goal due to some random distractions, inconveniences, and other personal reasons. I’ll try and get at least a couple up before the week is out, but realistically the one-a-day thing is now [...]

In follow up to the Short Story Roundup from late last week… As FRINGE WEEK approaches and I split my time between a waft of insane volunteering and a smattering of R&R, I thought I’d toss out another self-mutilating challenge towards my novella project, particularly considering I’ve been lax the last couple weeks with [...]

I tag-lined this blog (for twelve months, at least) with the claim that my ever-growing blog, this what you are reading now, bradgarten is “where 2008 is the year of the short story.” And while many of you have been keenly keeping up with the more non-fiction content posted, I’m never certain whether anyone is [...]

Didn’t I tell you what this whole sporadic writing thing would be about? Oh, well then…
Here’s the thing. Every time I get a few days off — as is the case in the coming week — I like to set some goals for myself. I know I have been quite random in [...]

I’ve been working in the background putting together a collection of essays for a little — for lack of a better word — webzine I’m creating. Yes, yet another writing project — but we talked about that already, didn’t we? The concept is simple: seven essays on seven topics revolving around one theme that [...]

I’ve poked my nose back into Facebook now and then to keep tabs on the swarms of craziness that seems to be unrelenting. I still can’t help but feeling excessively unproductive when I’m logged in, though. Yes, it could be argued that I’m keeping a fairly pointless blog and non-Facebook online presence alive — [...]

It was one of those weekends. Productive. Unproductive. Short. Long. You get the point.
The crew left on Sunday morning. Early. Which was probably nice for them as they had a lot of traveling to do, and which was probably nice for us because we had a lot of [...]