Today was not a normal writing day for me. The snow continues to fall (I think we are up to or very close to twelve inches or twenty-six centimetres of snow in the last three days) and people continue to get worse in their driving. As an example, the first day took me forty minutes to drive to work (it usually takes me twenty minutes). Day two was a forty-five minute drive and today was an hour. You might argue that the driving times are worse because of the extra snow but the road crews have been doing a yeoman’s job keeping the streets clear of snow. Anyway, long story short, I’ve been leaving earlier and earlier which means I […]

Let me lay it all out on the table. I didn’t make my 1,667 words today. I did write some, but not nearly enough. I actually managed to convince myself that I could have a slow day for a change and now I’m shutting down feeling guilty about it. Having said that, I had very good output this morning. I managed almost 450 words before I had to brave the blowing snow and go to work. The roads were no worse than yesterday but the drivers were. What is normally a 20 minute commute was 45 today (yesterday too, unfortunately). Such is life in a northern city, I suppose. I didn’t have any opportunity to write at lunch time so […]

I’m sure glad I’ve given up on planning what and when I’ll write. I would simply be disappointed and you know how I get when I’m disappointed. What? You don’t? Hmm, probably best that we leave it that way. So, we had our first snow of the winter season (or close facsimile) and it was a doozy. I believe we probably had four inches (approximately 9 centimetres) by this morning. I looked out my window and realized I couldn’t in good conscience write and leave the snow lying on the sidewalk. So, I reluctantly (and will much grumbling) went put on my winter gear and went outside to clean sidewalk. Since I live on a corner lot, I have a […]