Been down on myself about my writing lately. Can’t explain it except to say the novel I’m starting won’t start. Can’t call it writer’s block, exactly (I am writing things, just slowly and badly), but it does have me navel gazing and getting frustrated with my pace and lamenting the hours I lose to the vagaries of life and the hours I waste with pointless things (note: this category usually contains just about everything besides “writing” and “my wife and kids”).

So, I’m going to post here a couple songs that have always been good kicks in the pants for me. Some are new, some are old, some are from Disney movies. I hope you like them! If you don’t, well, then feel free to list your favorites in the comments. Maybe I missed one.

That one there has been my mantra for the past five years. It still is. I am not “there” yet.

Yet.

Hell yes, AC/DC. Hell yes it is.

Used to play this song a lot back when I bailed on my Secondary Education minor at college in favor of becoming a writer. Still a good song.

This one is a bit cheesy and somewhat overwrought, but it still gets me.

Okay, enough time-wasting from me. I’m off to climb Word Mountain. Hopefully today I’ll make it out of base camp.