Finished Stoner and the end of Viking-con

Daily Goal: 500 words.
I wrote 0 words.
Sundays/Stories Finished 5/0.

That's it for Viking-con this year. The event will finish tomorrow, but I don't think I will attend the last day. I didn't win any T-shirt this year, but it has been fun.

Tomorrow I would like to write something when the baby hs gone to sleep, but I know that I am a little short on sleep this weekend, so I will probably be exhausted when she finally goes to sleep tomorrow. I am exhausted already, just driving on fumes now that I am back from the convention, before I get my 6 hours of sleep (if I am lucky).

I finished _Stoner_, by John Williams. What a wonderful, wonderful book, a sad, haunting tale, written in sparse, beautiful prose. I will definetly make a longer review if I get the time. My first priority is, however, still to finish a short story.

Viking-con

Daily Goal: 500 words.
I wrote 0 words.
Sundays/Stories Finished: 5/0.

Today was the first day of Viking-con, so my free time was spent playing board games. It was fun. We played three rounds of Dominion, a deck building game. I won one round, came second once, and finished third (out of four) once, but it wasn't enough to land me in the final.

If you win a competition you get a T-shirt. I have two of them and hope to win another this year. I plan on playing Agricola, a worker placement game, tomorrow. Hopefully, I will land a T-shirt then.

All this means, however, that there will not be much writing done. I really feel like I wold have written something this weekend if it weren't for the convention. I mean that this weekend hadn't been spent reading, if I had nothing better to do. I hope this feeling will stay for a while, so perhaps I could get some writing done next week.

Gaming convention

Daily Goal: 500 words.
I wrote 0 words.
Sundays/Stories Fiinished: 5/0.

I had an urge to write today, but I let it pass. Instead I used the time to plan my weekend at Viking-con, a Danish gaming convention. Not writing when the urge is there is perhaps not something new, but doing it when I have the time to write is something I seldom do.

Most often I feel, after a long day, that the urge to read is much stronger than the urge to write. Hopefully, that is something that will change from month to month and there will come productive periods in the future.

I look forward to the gaming convention. It will be a very busy weekend. I will, of course, still have the baby to think about from 7 in the morning to 7 in the evening, but instead of reading for a few hours after that (and then complaining here about not writing) I'll be playing boardgames and getting much to little sleep.

A month and no story finished

Daily Goal: 500 words.
Yesterday I wrote 0 words.
Sundays/Stories Finished: 4/0.

Another Sunday came and went, and I still haven't finished a story. If I had set myself the modest goal of completing one short story each month, I would have failed at that too, at this point.

I am still working on the same story, if one could call it work. My thoughts are still on it, when I think about writing. Either that or they are on this blog. I guess that is a good thing. I know from experience, however, that actually trying to write a paragraph or a scene is so much more fruitful than just walking around doing day to day stuff and pondering about a story.

When I do have a little bit of time for myself I still turn to reading. I keep saying to myself, Let me just get this one novel done with and I'll start writing. But there is always another novel waiting.

My parents are coming in a week, which usually means that the next month will be a busy one. Viking-con is also approaching, as is my birthday. I hope to attend the former, hope to dodge the latter. Alas, things will probably turn out the other way around.