I hate when I miss a deadline and yesterday I missed my weekly post for only the second time since I started my blog. Unfortunately, it is also the second time this year. I’ve talked about this many times and I’m sure you all have experienced it too; life has a tendency to intrude on the little things like writing every day, sleep and having fun. Now, before you get the impression that I consider those items more important than family and friends, I don’t. Family and friends always take precedence over the other demands on my time. That’s probably why I missed the deadline. I was away from home all last week and my wife and daughter have been […]

When I was laid off for four months I made sure that I wrote every single day (not to mention hunted for jobs). I put out a lot of resumes and almost as much new fiction. It was a creative time. Then I got a job and I tried to keep the pace of writing at the same level with less day to do it in. Then my wife took a second job and I worked and was Mr. Mom at night and I still tried to keep my writing up. Naturally, I crashed and burned. It was a pretty tall horse to climb back up on but I have done so and I’m starting to feel good about it. […]

If you have followed me at all you know that I LOVE social media in its many forms. Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, Podcasting. They all have given me new friends, and new opportunities that I would never have gotten any other way. One of those new opportunities hit me last night. I wasn’t looking for it. I didn’t expect it. It just blindsided me. And if it wasn’t for the fact that I have set a moratorium on new projects, I would be working on it right now. Yes, that’s right, this very minute. I’m not going to say too much yet. I know that talking about it will only make the fire that burns less. Suffice it to say, I […]