Of Toads and Other Things

This is a Colorado River Toad.  I don't know much about this particular variety of toad, but I did at one point have a pair of toads, and we have had several toads around our house in wetter years.

What I know about toads is this, they hang out, they don't venture off too far, they eat quite a bit, and they look generally fat and lazy, though they do have some energy stored in them, so that in the event something startles them, they are off and running (or hopping) and might actually get away.

What does this have to do with writing?

Sometimes I feel like it's a "toad day" - by that, I mean that I have it in me to write and sprint away towards some finish line (which is just far enough away from where I am to escape where I was) if I am startled, but I am content otherwise to kick back, digest works of other people, and be lazy.  However, if the motivation is right, I can find my way into a few hops, and that can keep me moving forward, at whatever pace I need to.

Lately, I've been lazing around, waiting for crickets to come my way.

But, I have found some motivation from various people to drop a few words on this blog from time to time.  And, although a couple of posts have been late in the evening or even retrofitted a day, I've continued to pop out a poem weekly on the poetry pages.  And now I have, for a little while, thrown something fun or edible or consumable at least out there on Fridays on the blog section.  You would think this website was actually getting updated now.

But there has been little by way of fiction.  Mostly because I'm trying frantically to finish Mockingjay before my Kindle loan expires, and that's my excuse du jour.  Oh, and because I am trying to do my next novel in a planned, different format.  Oh, and because I just don't have any good ideas for short fiction.  Oh, and because... yeah.  That's right.  There are plenty of excuses.  And one reason.

So, I can only hope things are going better for you with words on page.  And in the meantime, I continue to plug along at blogging and whatnot.

The good thing is that I am coming up with a strategy for getting some things done.  And that might be a topic for another week.

Until then.