CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Wow – I can’t believe I left you guys alone for so long—I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to neglect you like that. So, this is last week’s progress report, which should have come out Sunday. I got a little sidetracked editing and writing. Who knew? Anyway, here’s what was achieved in the second-to-last week of December, 2015.   Overview   New words produced: 6,733 Old words revised: 0 Outlines and Notes: 3,704 Works completed: 0 Works revised: 0 Covers created: 1 Works published: 0 Works submitted: 1 Competitions Entered: 0 Bloggery: 6,442 University Prep and Assignments: 0 Story-A-Week Challenge Update Completed Seppelitus Holiday Extension Challenge Update Started Rocky Rides the Space Range , but did not complete. Publishing Tasks Created 9 blog posts for this blog; Created 4 blog post for the C.M. Simpson Publishing blog ; Created 2 blog post for the C.M. Simpson Art and Photography blog ; New Arrivals Nil

I can see you asking the question, even as I prepare this year’s collections for release, and it’s a good question. It’s a question I often asked myself. I can’t really explain why I want to inflict my very short stories and poems on the world, except that I love writing them. I love knowing I need to write at least one of each every day. I create the excuses to write them every day. These short pieces have provided me with an age of pleasure and, over the last 24 months became something I could not imagine discarding from my day. And I’m not alone. There are plenty of other writers love their work and make a living from it. I think, way back in July, Dean Wesley Smith summed up the why of writing very well —that when you sit down to write “you are there to play, to have fun, to do what you want without caring”—and Kristine Kathryn Rusch said something that struck a chord with me, also— keep doing what you love and that she finds it essential to write. These writers write b