Wandering and Wondering

Here comes day 2. The reason I want to take on this challenge, as I said before, is to hone my craft as a writer. A good translator needs to be able to write in his own voice - this serves to make the translation more natural, and also to differentiate his work from that of others. To get there, to find my own voice, I need to practice. I imagine it's a bit like sculpting: with each post, I'm chiseling away extraneous bits to reveal the sculpture beneath, one that bears my identity. Hopefully, after 31 days of at least 500 words, or at least 15,500 words, I can find that voice, or get closer to it. A necessary skill of any freelancer is being able to find the time. I'm constantly challenged to find time to do anything other than spending time with my two children. From chores around the apartment to exercising, from sleep to work, I'm always trying to scrape together some time, or steal some here and there, to get these things done. My wife and I have managed to sc...

I am announcing here and right now that I'm starting this challenge: to write at least 500 words for 31 (and hopefully more) days. I am one day late though; it's day 2 today and I'm specifically told not to play catch up, but hey, it's MY 500 words right? I'll just do this whole thing shifted by one day. The point of announcing this publicly is to have some sort of accountability, a bit a pressure to get me to stick to it. I am painfully aware that this post will most likely only get 10 pageviews. Better than nothing though right? This is one of those resolutions that is bound to fail, like one of Brad Pitt's marriages. I've been meaning to write more for a while, (like, a whole decade) and, with the exception of the first year of fatherhood, when I blogged nearly once a week, I have not been successful at all. I wrote a total of 2 blog posts last year and I'm hoping to eclipse that number by the end of the week. This year I'm gonna give this co...