Preoccupations.

Taxes, my fiance's homework, and my roomie upgrading their desktop have sort of cut in on my computer access the last couple of days.

WoW, Fallout 3, Civ 4, and Oblivion are also contributing factors... and the fact that I haven't gotten another word written. I've got to make myself remember that blogging and daily writing are supposed to be mandatory for me - I have to establish the habit of doing this day in, day out, if I'm going to make writing a career rather than a hobby.

On the plus side, I've got $120 coming back to me in tax returns.

And now, my notebooks and I will spend the day at Barnes & Noble.

Where, my hope is, I will be able to focus enough to get some writing done. At this point I really don't care what I write - it may be fifteen pages of drabbles that go nowhere - so long as I can have a day of decent output.

Of course, I owe someone a comic book script on Saturday, so I suppose I should focus on polishing and revising that.

Yes, Clever Reader, you're right. That means I've thought about it a lot and haven't written a blessed word yet.

But then, I tend to think for a long time before I write. I call it letting the ideas 'marinate,' and to a certain extent, it truly isn't laziness, and it does help me work out the shape of what I want to write. I've just spent far too much time marinating, and not enough time in the damn kitchen, actually cooking.

So: off to fire the burners up.