MediocreMan

What Am I Gonna Write Today? · 12 September 2026

I actually do not know what I am going to write today, but I am going to write.

I do not have writer’s block. I do not believe it is a thing. Really, I have even posted a few posts about it not being a thing. Or at least one. I think. Regardless of how many posts I have written (or not written) about it, I just do not think that writer’s block is a thing. So even though I do not know exactly what I am going to write this morning, I do NOT have writer’s block.

Now that I have gotten that out of the way…

I do this every once in a while. I do not know what I am going to write, so I just write what comes into my mind. Not quite a stream of consciousness thing. I just write. And something coherent always comes out. Okay. Not always. But usually. Or if not completely coherent, at least something that I can post on a blog that nobody reads. (Sorry readers. Both real and imaginary.)

Speaking of hyperbole. (Which by the way, is pronounced hy-per-bo-lee. I used to read it as hyper-bowl. I even thought that when people were saying hy-per-bo-lee, they were saying a completely different word. And this was just a few years ago. Okay. Maybe more than a few, but I was definitely an adult at the time I finally figured out what the word was and how to spell it. I-T. Sorry. You get a dumb dad joke thrown in. Which by the way is a bit insulting. I mean, is it that the dad is dumb because that is where the modifier is or is it the joke that is dumb? I suppose that in my case it could be either or both. Hmm.)

At any rate.

Speaking of hyperbole. I am not one who really likes it. Saying all or none or never or always just does not fit in with either the way I speak or the way I write. I do not like to exaggerate. At least not to that extent. I would rather give a little bit of embellishment to a story to make it funnier or more embarrassing for me. Or just a better story. But using hyperbole is just not my style. I mean, c’mon. I am the guy who likes to ask, “Always?” or “Never?” or “Everybody?” or “Nobody?” or… Well, you get the picture. I always hate that people use such hyperbole when they talk. (“Always?”)

Well, I have written nearly five-hundred words about nothing so far. I may as well make it the whole way. (Whatever that means.)

Speaking of writer’s block (which is not a thing). I wrote a story for DailyPrompt that was written to a prompt that I submitted. That was fun. It was about, wait for it. It was about a conversation at a writers’ group. I had so much fun writing it because the writers’ group talked about writer’s block. Which is not a real thing! It was great fun. I used a bunch of first names of authors that I have either read or know about. It was great fun. (Oops. I already said that. Ah well.) I will probably post that story on this blog one day. In fact, I have two stories that I am pretty sure I am going to post. One is a fun (although a bit gruesome) Halloween story. And the other is the one about the writers’ groups talking about writer’s block (which I just said). And I will probably post some others along the way. After all, I can post about pretty much anything when it comes right down to it. I mean really. I just blog about life.

Well, I think that is about it. I started out writing about who knows what and ended up having an almost cohesive little blog post of over 650 words. (You can count, if you like.) It is funny though. It seems like whenever I do not know what to write or when I just write whatever comes to my mind, I seem to write about writer’s block. If I did not mention it before, it is not a thing. And I know that because I had no idea what I was going to write when I started writing and here I am finishing a blog post about not that much.

I guess it can be fun writing when I have no idea what I am going to write. (Did I mention that writer’s block is not a thing?)

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My Latest Book – Accidental Justice · 5 September 2026

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I released my latest book on August 31, 2026. Accidental Justice.

Accidental Justice is my latest book. It is a Daniel Miyoshi book. If you have not read any of my fiction (not many have), Daniel Miyoshi is my dad’s fictional twin. I am not sure why I did that except that I wanted to tell stories from my real family from a fictional perspective. (My Autobiography of a Sixth Grader series is like that too.)

At any rate.

Accidental Justice is a fictional book where my main character and his friends must decide whether a senator was murdered or was killed on accident. When I originally wrote the book, I had a specific ending in mind. I knew exactly what happened. Which is how I write most of my fiction. I start with characters and a situation. I know the beginning and the ending and write what happens in between. I am not sure why I write that way, but it is how I write fiction. And it is fun. Even when the ending ends up being different than I had planned. Which happens every once in a while. It is as if the characters take on a life of their own and exercise free will. I am actually amazed when it happens. Amazed and surprised.

Now, I need to tell you something else about my book. There is at least one other book out there with the same title. I actually looked before I named the book and there was a non-fiction book of law or something. I figured that was okay. But when I went to add my book to my Amazon author page, I saw that there was another book out there with the same name. I had no idea. I do not remember who the author of the other book is, but I was a bit deflated. I thought I had come up with the perfect title that nobody else had used and it turned out that somebody else had a book with that name already.

Ah well.

I do not want to give away any more of the book than I already have. I just wanted to mention that I have another book out there jamming up the internet. And I have this blog post with links going to my book, which according to Amazon, I am supposed to label as ads. I suppose that this whole promotion is an ad when it comes right down to it.

If you have read any of my books, you will find that this one is a quick read as well. I suppose that my books are really novella length. Not really long enough to be novels. Certainly not long enough to be epics or sagas. (Even though I might like to write one of those one day.) Someday. I wonder if someday ever comes. Maybe I will get to the point where I can write a book longer than I have so far. We shall see. After all, much to the chagrin of my current readers, I am still writing. And much to my own amazement, I am still writing even though not that many are reading.

I hope that you check out my latest book. I know that this was another glowing endorsement of my own wares, but that is just the way I am. I am not so proud as to brag and I am not so humble as to keep it all under wraps. And I know at least one reader of Accidental Justice who has already read it three times. (Thank you Uncle Don.) I hope you are brave enough to read it at least one time.

Accidental Justice. Now available on Amazon (print and digital). Check it out.

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Not Gonna Brag · 29 August 2026

Have you ever noticed that when somebody says, “…not gonna brag…” they are really just getting ready to brag?

I know that when I say, “…not gonna brag…” it means that I am gonna brag, and I think it is true of everybody. I mean, why else would you say that. Not gonna brag, but this. Not gonna brag, but that. It is totally bragging. Not gonna brag. Sheesh.

It is a strange idiom, but I suppose we all know it. So we just wait for the brag. We wait for what the speaker says he or she is not gonna do. We may do so with arms crossed or with a wink to our neighbor, but we wait for the brag. And when it comes, we either have fun with the bragger or we laugh. And sometimes we are really amazed.

I wrote the title of this blog post when I wrote the title and first line of the previous blog post. I knew I was bragging and I wanted to own up to it. After all, I do not really think that I have that much to brag about. So I figure that I can get away with it every now and then.

When I do brag, it is in front of family and/or friends. People who know me and my idiosyncrasies. They know that when I brag about something, it is usually a cue to laugh. And they do. They all tend to laugh out loud at me. Not with me, mind you, at me. And I expect it. After all, I know that the only kind of humor that gets me genuine laughs is the self-deprecating kind.

(Now, I must say that there are people out there who cannot use self-deprecating humor. It just does not work. I think part of it is because most of us cannot laugh at ourselves. Personally, I laugh at myself all the time. I even brag about it here in my blog. It is crazy in many ways. I mean, who does that? Well, I like to write about my foibles and follies. But I do not know why. Okay. Maybe I do know why. There are so many of them.)

I like to write about my missteps and mistakes because I know that there are people out there who just need a laugh. Or maybe they need to know that there are other people out there who make mistakes. Maybe even mistakes just like theirs. Or at least close enough that they can relate. Which is part of the reason I chose MediocreMan, when I started writing in earnest. I am just a normal guy. A mediocre guy. A mediocre man, if you will.

Which is why I do not often say, “I’m not gonna brag, but…” It is not really part of my vernacular. Not part of my shtick. So I suppose it is okay to use the phrase every now and then. Especially when I use it like everybody else does. Especially when I use it just before I brag.

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