july 8 odb

Regular readers of this blog will know that I've been working on a story. It's happening in fits and starts so I've shared it in fits and starts. First here, and then here. I haven't written a story in a long time because way back whenever, writing became my job, and the last thing you want to do when you're done work is the thing you do for work. It's different, but it's not different enough, and because this is the way I felt about my creative work a lot of ideas simply didn't get put on the page. It took a while, but I've made peace with this. Eventually you realize that ideas are cheap and that motivation and execution are the hard parts. That helped a lot. I went from a guy who felt bad about things to a guy who accepted reality. When I couldn't pin an idea to the ground and flesh it out properly, I started to shrug and let it go because there was a high probability another idea would come along sooner or later. I used to be precious about my writing. Like, the Dave writing. I…