Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-fifty-two of Operation Achieve Anything. Here we go with another Sunday, so I’m going to make this one quick in order to enjoy my last day off before having to return to tomorrow’s day job schedule. I’m also going to make this one short because yesterday I put in the time to write a six-page post that’s reception was absolutely flat. It’s funny how often it seems like I’m on the right track when it comes to drawing an audience, and shift gears thinking that I have a brilliant plan only to instantly see my readers drop off.

I’m actually okay with this though because ultimately, though I do always want to create compelling content, I don’t really want thoughts of the audience’s needs to influence my work. I often complain about this in my reviews of Saturday Night Live when cast members go from rookies to stars and then start to phone in their performances by sticking what used to work while losing that newcomer drive that brought them to these levels of fame.

That’s not to say that I feel anywhere close to famous, but I do see that I feel a bit filthy for not practicing what I pretty when I think that I know what the people will want. I do still think that yesterday’s post was a good one that’s worth the read. My issue with myself was how I kind of just expected that it would lead to a new batch of readers.

In fact, I was hoping that yesterday’s post would lead to the fulfillment of yesterday’s assignment where I was supposed to make a new friend. I thought that someone might comment on the post and, if they seemed interesting, I’d drop them a line to say hi. Then, when more efforts bore no fruit, I just kind of gave up on the task.

Either way, it probably would have led nowhere because I’m just at that age where it’s difficult to meet anyone new. Even if I wasn’t an anti-social shut-in like before I became this way back in my youth, I’m a single fat failure over forty which is a friend profile that not in high demand. It’s sad but I’ve grown to accept it, and really enjoy my time with my words. This is why I’m not going to beat myself up for failing yesterday’s task.

As for today’s task, I’m supposed to explore my history of friendships as the book carries on with this theme. Once again, tomorrow’s post may be a bummer considering that I no longer talk to anyone who I used to know and have to force myself to be okay with it. Oh well, we’ll see what I have to say when I check in tomorrow. Until then, it’s now time for me to sign off as usual by saying, good day and good luck to you and all of your projects.

Talk to you soon.

Sincerely,

The Wicker Breaker

P.S. Below are links to my novel, which I plan to promote as part of Operation Achieve Anything, as well as a link to where you can buy the book that is providing the structure to this project in case you would like to purchase it in order to play along.