This is the beginning of my new blog, and hopefully a new commitment to my writing life.\u00a0 Too often, I push aside my writing life.\u00a0 It’s easy to do.\u00a0 I push it aside to make money in my day job.\u00a0 I push it aside out of guilt for not spending time with my family.\u00a0 I push it aside out of nervousness and apprehension.\u00a0 What if I don’t make it?\u00a0 What if no one reads and no one cares?\u00a0 Or even worse, what if they do?<\/p>\n
There are so many reasons not to write, yet, it is all I think about, all I desire.\u00a0 When you write, hours go by like minutes, words flow that you never knew you had.\u00a0 You experience that bliss that comes from total release within that electric gray matter floating around in your skull.\u00a0 I love the feeling of writing above nearly anything else, and it is time I embrace that more fully.<\/p>\n
I don’t need to be Stephen King.\u00a0 I don’t need millions of dollars.\u00a0 All I need is one person, one individual soul to tell me that my work meant something to them, or barring that, just that they enjoyed reading it.\u00a0 I miss that feeling.\u00a0 The feeling of seeing your words in print, published by someone else, enjoyed by any who find it.<\/p>\n
Thus, this blog, is hopefully the beginnings of a more complete site.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My plan is to post occasional short stories I have written, track my daily progress, and generally express any other thoughts as they come up.\u00a0 I also generally read a few books at once, so I’ll keep tabs on that, as well.<\/p>\n
Like everything, it all begins with a single word, which grows into a sentence, a paragraph, a thought.\u00a0 Thoughts can entertain, change a life, or change the world.\u00a0 But it always begins with a single word.<\/p>\n
I don’t ask for the ability to change the world.\u00a0 Just to write that first word and see what happens.<\/p>\n
writing today: 950 words on a short story<\/p>\n
reading:\u00a0 Strunk and White’s Elements of Style, Burning Chrome by William Gibson, Starship Troopers by Robert Heinline, On Writing Horror by the Horror Writer’s Association.<\/p>\n
recently read:\u00a0 Write Good or Die by Various Writers, Stupid American History by Leland Gregory, Highland Martial Culture by Chistopher Scott Thompson<\/p>\n
films recently seen:\u00a0 Captain America, Horrible Bosses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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