Note to my readers

Well, I've missed a few of my regular posts now, and if I do have any actual readers, you might be wondering why. Well I've decided to briefly let you know what's going on.

I like to write. That's one of the reasons that I'm actually keeping a blog right now, but blogging isn't my passion. When it comes to writing, I think it's SF. As a matter of fact I've got quite a few stories floating around in my head, and I want to get them out and on to paper. However, I've met a challenge with this, and I'm trying to conquer it. Time.

All this month I've been very busy, with kids, work, scheduling changes, and all the other unexpected things that happen in life, and my schedule is not liable to change at least until mid-summer, maybe later. I'm getting to the point that I need to back off on something to make everything else fit. So for writing, if I have to make a sacrifice there, this is where it's going to be. My other blog is a one or two a month thing anyway, so that's not much time. However, finding topics for this blog actually require a little research time, and some thought, so I'm going to channel some of that energy into my other writing right now, and go down to maybe 1 post a week for a while here. I'm also going to take about a 1 month hiatus from this blog completely to catch up the other stuff I'm doing before I come back here.

Here's the good news, it's working. I was able to finish a short story very early in the morning on 3/9 that I probably wouldn't have finished nearly as fast if I were still pouring myself into this blog as much. It's not just time, but writing is an effort and it takes something out of you, and if you don't watch it, you find yourself in a mood that the last thing you want to do is write, and I was getting there. My dark little short story however was probably about 3 hours of writing (spread across 9 days when I could find the time) and was some of the most pleasurable writing I've ever done. It went really well, and for the first time, I wasn't stymied for a time trying to figure out how something was going to work. Sure it's only 6000 words, but I'm pleased with the story, and I'm looking forward to the next one.

Currently I'm working on about 6 articles, 2 novellas, a few short stories, and one full fledged book. I'm definitely stuck in a few spots, but I'm hoping to get out of some of them this month, and maybe get at least one story and a few articles done, so I don't have so many things hopping around. If so, I'll probably bump these posts up to 1-2 a week instead of just one.

So bye for a while, but see you again either late this month, or early next month.