Am I going to finishe anything?

I have three writing projects bogged down at the moment. A novel, a short story, and an entry for my political blog (AnArch Liberal). I'm proud of my work habits, but not proud of my accomplishments. For The Feral Bond novel, I've thrown out all the Ginger Snaps fan fiction elements that I started out with, and there's still a lot left there. The problem is organizing it now that the protagonist has changed. After so many false starts (in which one or another of the target audience gave a less than sterling review) I've begun to outline it using Tiddlywiki. (Thank you Ann Leckie.)

The short story is turning out to be longer than I thought. I've gone over the 6,000 word ceiling. Details have taken over the story again.

The blog entry, well, editorial and factual stuff has always been hard for me to write. I wish I could sit down and just write an article like that from start to finish. I have shown that I could just zoom-write 750 words in a half hour. Making it any good is the real challenge.

Reading is work. And it's the trick of the creative writer (with the help of an editor or two) to make the reader forget that their minds are working when they read. That's where story immersion is so important. Unlike a movie, which is very labor intensive, the reader does a lot of the storytellers work.

I find my eyelids getting heavy, just at the time of day that they should. That's one thing I had to do so I could write. I cured my insomnia.

Other things I've accomplished so I could write include:

• Living on a minimum amount of money.
• Staying off social media during the day.
• Living without a car, and making the minimum amount of errands.
• Having a reading regimen

There's more, but unfortunately, it's too close to midnight. I just keep on cracking at it until I get good results.