Emerson Ward Mysteries

The Boring Writer's Life

09/07/09

September 8, 2009

Tags: mystery, novel, fiction, crime, author, writing

Up around 6:30. Wet and cold outside; didn't feel like running.

Checked e-mail. No paper--Labor Day.

Watched a little U.S. Open. Worked on the WIP; actually wrote two pages in between games of mahjong and spider solitaire.

Went to town to mail some birthday cards and pick up a few things at the store.

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Fact & Fiction

September 7, 2009

Tags: mystery, novel, fiction, crime, author, writing

Blogs: Wasteful use of time to bloviate on self-centered inanity.

Why do we blog? To fulfill some sense of self-importance? Because everyone else is doing it? Fact is, I can't think of much to write about that might be meaningful to others, especially if I avoid the three taboos--politics, religion and sex.

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