8r4d The weather is still holding around freezing for some late #winter #running adventurers, but the forecast is not looking so lovely for next week. I’ll take ice and puddles over minus twenty and more snow!

8r4d #running has shifted to #hilltraining in the cold #winter blur that makes me yearn for something worth training for now.

pixelazy Atop the infamous #hilltraining hill at dusk is a precious view of the crazy wild world.

pixelazy The buggies are emerging from the long winter hibernation as the weather improves. Nature is a beautiful thing. #buggyland

castironguy Those day old #doughnuts are better than nothing, huh?

bradsalomons I’ve been spending a lot of time #writing and drinking #coffee but progress on the novel has been a little slow this year so far. I had a great big push late in 2024 to get though the second half and then hit a bit of a block.

Many writing folks will tell you to push through the block and put in the effort and just write, and I did that, getting in my daily word count on other side projects. And that was fine to a point, but none of it was dislodging the plot block in the novel.

Last week I decided to brute force the damn thing and so I’ve set my daily word goal a bit lower and have been writing a bare minimum of words into the novel regardless of other factors.

Specifically, where I was usually tasking myself with sitting down and writing a scene, usually amounting to between 1000-1500 words, now I’m setting the daily goal of 250 words. Yeah, that’s a lot less, but after a week of generously meeting my goal each day I’m nearly 2000 words ahead of where i was last Monday, and that accounts for (sadly) more than half of the words I’ve written in 2025 on this project.

Happily, progress is progress is progress, and the “just write” advice is definitely locked in and valid.

adventuredog Just a bit of #sidewalkart on a #winter #walk

adventuredog #march has come in like a big wet lamb melting all the snow and leaving a lot of #puddles and moments of #reflection in its wake

8r4dsfeets #running in slush is not for those with cold feets

8r4d The weather has been holding above freezing for some good pre-spring #running tho the trails are generously wet and slushy, so… adventure!

8r4d Great photo grad photo? I had to sit in the waiting area…

8r4d It’s grad photo day at the kid’s school. Her choice of prop? The dog of course.