Profile Editor. Writer. 9-5er. Lord of the Dance. Blurredline.com Apodis Publishing Fusion Fragment cterrill(at)blurredline.com Buy Goodbye, Darwin Amazon.com Amazon.ca Chapters.ca Barnes&Noble.com Read it free in PDF Format Buy Blurred Line Amazon.com Amazon.ca Chapters.ca Barnes&Noble.com Read it free in PDF Format The Short Stuff "Learning Magic From Mint" - published May 2007 in Atomjack "Between Eternities" - published October 2005 at Speculative.ca "Smoke and Mirrors" - published June 2005 in Byzarium Submissions Log Total Subs: 25 Acceptances: 3 Rejections: 17 Withdrawals: 3 Subs Out: 2 Quality Blogs Scalzi's Whatever Dave's Blogography Bookslut The Struggling Writer SF Signal the0phrastus Paperback Writer Scribe's Writing Desk Nathan Bransford Lyons Literary LLC The World in the Satin Bag Book In The Oven The Word Perhaps We Learned Something... Words, etc. Archives March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 Et Cetera Cavan @ Last.fm Cavan @ LibraryThing Feeds Atom Feed RSS Feed	Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - Escapist Writing Aside from this blog, I haven't done any writing since last week's unfortunate Thursday. Nothing on the short stories or Mass Romantic. No brainstorming sessions for Archive. This got me thinking about something the founder of the first writing group I was in always used to say. Writing, for him, was an escape for his troubles. It's never been that way for me. I've never been one for disappearing into my writing. No, I always need a good, clear head on my shoulders when I'm going to write. I need to be able to concentrate. Writing doesn't work as a way to blot out exterior distractions doesn't seem to work for me since they tend to end up manifesting themselves in whatever I'm working on. Sometimes, that can be a good thing, but a lot of the time it just doesn't fit. I'm hoping that a little bit of structure will get me back on the wagon tomorrow. I'm going to set an hour and just sit and write for the duration - hopefully something coherent will emerge. Anyone else have any suggestions for returning after a layoff? Cavan blogged at 11:45 PM | 0 comments	Progress Zilch! 0/0 Listening A.J. Croce - "Maybe I'm Amazed" My Music Reading Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney My Library Watching Black Book: B Sweet and Lowdown: C Breakfast on Pluto: B Wishlist Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart