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.

Reading Stoner instead of finding time to write

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

Today has been another long, yet unproductive, day. I could have easily scrambeled together an hour to write in, but I spent what free time I have had reading. The novel I am currently reading is _Stoner_ by John Williams. It is remarkable. I feel like reading a life story of a person I could have been and as I progress beyond Stoner's 35th year, it seems as if I am reading an alternate future for myself.

The only difference, of course, is that the eponymous protagonist of the novel has been able to write and publish a book, while at the pace things are going at my end, I'll be lucky if I ever manage to finish a short story.

Tomorrow is book with family and a gaming convention, Viking-con, will fill the coming weekend. It does not bode well for writing, but I'll at least try to write the blog each day and hopefully manage to keep the story alive that I am (was) working on.