Monday, December 21, 2009

Silence is not golden!

Apparently, I'm not talking. :) My muse has escaped me, abandoned me, even. I'm not writing, either. :(

It seems my brain is totally caught up in the possibility that I will have to relocate next year due to retirement and the economic conditons.

Upside - we're thinking about Roswell, NM, the mecca of the sci-fi world. Okay, I write mostly horror, but I don't see a problem fitting right in.

Downside - it's a major move at a time when I'm just about out of major move energy.

Maybe I could write about that. Nah, better stick to fiction, where I can explore so many different ways to kill people.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

BLOG LAUNCH!

Today is the first day of the rest of my writing life. It is also the first day of what's left of my life. If I have any advise at all to give my fellow writers, it is this - DO IT NOW! BEFORE IT IS NEVER! Your dues are paid, my friend, they were paid the day you were born.

Don't listen to those who say you don't have the life experience - you do! Don't listen to anyone who tells you to wait until (fill in the blank here: The kid's are grown, you're out of school, you have more education, you're more qualified, you... ).

Waiting is highly overrated. I waited for all these things. I listened to all the reasons why I shouldn't pursue a writing career. Now comes the realization that whatever I write, it will not become a classic in my lifetime, I will never see a movie on the big screen made from my manuscript and I will not go to my grave feeling I have done the most with the talent with which I was born.

Better late than never is all I have to offer. My advise to you, my friend - Don't follow my life's example.

Back to the Garret of AnnNoE to work on my NaNoWriMo ms for November.