Saturday, January 31, 2009

By the numbers...

35 - how old I'll be in 13 days. No happy birthday needed, save them for my soul brother Fidel Castro, born the same day.


235 - a number that is pissing me off....see earlier blog for details


200 - number I have to find if I want to see 35+64 one day


4 - number of months I have to find 200. Place your bets folks...


6 - the minimum hours of sleep I need to be functional and mostly non-violent.


5 - hour at which the day will now begin.


3 -  number of novels I am writing simulataneously. Bit masochistic aren't I. 


1000 - number of words a day I have to produce come Hell, highwater or the Gathering.


approx 85000 - number of words I have in the longest work right now.


whats it all mean?


People set goals, make plans and never reach them. Our culture seems to encourage this and as long as you keep trying, it's okay.


Bullshit.


Tomorrow is an option you may not have. While it is necessary to make long term plans, deciding what you will do day to day, moment to moment to make something happen and forcing yourself through it is the only way to suceed.


If you know the numbers, the math involved, any problem can be worked out, solved, eliminated.


Later days...much later


 

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