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What inspires you to keep writing?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer from 2017:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Right now?  That I\u2019m waiting for these repairmen to return, finish the job I hired them for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More generally?  It keeps me somewhat level.  I can sit back, close my eyes, and pound something out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Novembers, it allows me to reflect some on where I am, correct mistakes I\u2019ve made, and find some peace in time for the holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stretch from September of last year until July of this year is a complete blur.  (Well, that\u2019s the case of many, many things, on account of my failing vision, but….)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think I still can do some quality work, although I have to approach things differently.  Things really scream by.  I hope that I haven\u2019t disappointed too many people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My desire for revenge is kind of gone.  Things do occasionally pop up that I have to look into, dig back through my archives, and inquire whether there\u2019s something that might bite me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much of what\u2019s coming out in the news is about behavior I just can\u2019t comprehend.  Have I done things I regret?  Absolutely.  Is any nearly as bad as what (long string of celebrities)<\/s> did?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not by a longshot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still haven\u2019t had the opportunity to delve into stuff from 2012 thoroughly. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe Friday Who knows? For tomorrow:  How do you feel about people\u2019s need to post every detail of their relationships on social media? Are you guilty?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In previous years, it was really just something to see if I could do it. Obviously, I’ve more than shown that I can. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The summer writing periods were something to get my mind off the horrible situation in which I’d been placed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My psychologist says that it’s a symptom of OCD. Obviously, I haven’t written during the summers in a while, and this may very well be my last November. This is fifteen years. The first time I did it, I was a newlywed seeking to figure out if there was anything creative I could do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not really doing that much reflecting at this point. This year, while, yes, there’s some things I’m lining up for the rest of the year, things are somewhat predictable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Am I bored with it? I don’t know. It’s not really a chore, but I think I’m so busy that it’s something I have to remind myself to do. My early idea of setting aside a specific time each day came and went. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year’s been spent working way too much<\/strong>. Maybe I’ll get some benefit from that, but I’m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stupidity with the election is over, so I can peek in on that and see what’s going to happen. I don’t have high hopes, but there are some streaks of promise. Elon Musk posting videos of Milton Friedman is great, but I kind of think that things are past the point of rescue; bad things are on the horizon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, find something to enjoy, maybe. Silo<\/a><\/em> is back, but I go back and forth as to whether we should get a start on it, or wait until it’s all dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I said recently, I do have some medical stuff to do, but that’s not until next year. I haven’t seen any donor meetups for the things I support. Football isn’t great, but I am kind of interested to see what Jameis Winston does to the former Failcons guy tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe I should get back into the rhythm of pointing something out as I wrote about in the old entry about this? Ummmm The doc disagrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, two-thirds finished which is a bit of an accomplishment. I’m getting proved right more and more with work, which has led to me being sidelined on decisions where I might pipe up with disagreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just ignore him; he doesn’t let us waste the money we want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What inspires you to keep writing? Answer from 2017: Right now?  That I\u2019m waiting for these repairmen to return, finish the job I hired them for. More generally?  It keeps me somewhat level.  I can sit back, close my eyes, and pound something out. For Novembers, it allows me to reflect some on where I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}