Wednesday, February 4, 2026

IWSG Feb '26


    So post titles are still not my thing.  ðŸ˜…

More relevantly, or not so relevantly maybe, I am still in a sort of "muddling through it" phase in my writing.  I alternate between being full of enthusiasm and being completely unsure how to continue or what to write.  Frustrating, but it just sort of moves along at its own pace, so I guess it's fine?  (Frustrating in a different sense is my ever-growing realization of how much I use "just" as a crutch word in my writing.  I try to notice as I'm writing and replace it with "only" or "merely" or "simply," but I fear that's treating the symptom rather than the disease...)

On the plus side, I did just yesterday finally get past a scene in my current massive rewrite project that had been blocking me for weeks.  So that's at least something?  (Better still, there's very little between where I am and the climactic showdown with the remarkably undeveloped villain of the week.  ðŸ˜…  So at least the end is in sight, I suppose?)

I feel like I don't ever have much to say that would even interest anyone, let alone potentially help them get through any of their own problems.  ðŸ˜°  But if I didn't have the IWSG posts to write, I might go six months or more without making any blog posts at all, so... 😰