The Narrative Dude Writes

5/5/24

A hard day so I’m listening to a mix of Bear McCreary soundtracks and catching bits and pieces of the Nightly News where a group of military Gold Star families were cheated out of their money by an Army approved financial planner.

I also spent some time revising my grand plan (Often referred to as the ‘Plan’) to include these daily blog posts. It runs concurrently with Medium as my first tier. If you knew how difficult it is to break past my ADHD and anxiety, then you would understand why it’s a noteworthy accomplishment.

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While my words may not be deep or the topics explored, writing with Ulysses on my iPad and NuPhy mechanical keyboard is an effective combination for writing. (I can’t neglect the Sony headphones set to sound canceling.) Someday soon I’ll see if I can do some affiliate advertising – I won’t promote anything I’m not using, so I believe my moral balance is good.

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Some humble bragging: Today has been what I call a high pain and inflammation day. I would the day to binge something on Masterpiece (Okay, I was Netflix watching ‘The Mick’, which was hilarious. Too bad it was canceled when it ended on such a comedically induced crisis.

Now the humble bragging is that I pushed through and wrote this entry, worked on the Plan, and graded my talented student’s last proposals. This being said because writing in my this configuration eases some of the pain. Sheds some light on getting my fiction and article work moving.

I have an idea about Sundays for this blog. I think some kind of newsletter-like format with some of my random musings that I captured through the week like this one.

“As soon as my mother-in-law fills up the bird feeder several bird species dive in and gobble seed. I’ve made note of the times she fills the feeder and being aware of any repeated sounds, but I can find nothing. So, how the Hell are they communicating that the buffet is open?”