Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Hello. Goodbye.




Sad day, perhaps. For me, it is. A day of overwhelmed realization: I'm trying to work too many jobs at once. I have a full-time job making steady pay; I'm trying to have a second full-time job marketing my ebook; I'm trying to have an infrequent part-time job helping my fiancee with her business, when she's a little swamped; I'm trying to have a second part-time job writing a novel; I'm preparing for our wedding in 8 weeks; I'm preparing for college in 12 weeks; and there's the everyday/everyweek stuff, cleaning, shopping, et cetera. It's a lot of stuff. Too much, in fact.


I started this blog, and my Twitter account, and my Facebook account, to try to build something of a platform -- to connect with potential readers before my book even comes out. Well, no book will be forthcoming for a while. I hate to admit it, but it's very true. And as things continue to pile up on my to-do list, it might actually help to be able to dump off some of them, at least till after the wedding.

So, this will be my last post for a few months. The announcement of this post will be my last Tweet and last author Facebook post for a few months.

But when I come back, I should have all sorts of things to tell you, and hopefully the time to tell you about them.

See you later.

Monday, June 4, 2012

The Source of Inspiration


Some time ago, I was reading an article in The Writer's Chronicle magazine (February 2012) by Alice Mattison titled "Where Do You Get Your Ideas?" Now, all respect is due Ms. Mattison for a deep and thought-provoking article; and I'm sure some account should be taken for word-count requirements, and a certain level of intellect required to be featured in such a magazine. But my golly: way to take the fun out of writing.
So I thought I might take the next few weeks and talk about the inspirations and impetus' for the stories featured in my anthology, If They Keep Silent.And I thought I'd kick off this little series with some of my own thoughts about ideas, inspirations, and general sources of this stuff we call writing.