New Home, Same Rules

For the two people who follow me, I deleted my Wordpress website. There were several reasons, but I mostly just put the cart before the horse. I need a website if I take the plunge into self-publishing, but I don't have a book that's 100% just yet. The website just fell into the space of being a pointless blog that was only ever visited by other Wordpress users. And they would only follow my site in the hopes I would follow them back. It became a waste of time and money. Hence the deletion.

I still feel the need for a blog, so I created this. I doubt anyone will really visit it, but who knows. I just really needed to do a monthly update on my senseless shit. Given my tone of cynicism and self-deprecating humor, there was only one logical choice for this site. The Flog.

For the update part, there isn't much to update. I started a new book a couple weeks ago, but I haven't gotten very far. My plan is to complete the first full chapter and pass it around to a few people to get some feedback. The narrative is experimental, to say the least, so I need someone to tell me if I'm on the right track or if I'm just crazy. At least before I spend the next couple of years writing an entire book that way.

I also have another writing project on the side. Poetry. Yeah, I know, it's probably a bad idea, but I think I have a method to my madness. For the time being, I intend to write a poem a week. That is unless I find a means to expedite the process I'm currently using. I completed my first poem just before writing this entry, and it took me almost two hours. Can't afford to do something like that every day. Not unless I do it during my office hours. Of course, I would never do that. Honest.

As for the future, I have a writing conference to go in May. I sent off a sample of my novel to someone who is going to critique it before I send it off to the people who will actually consider it. It's the most important item on my writing agenda. I don't know it will result in an actual career, but it's better than nothing.

For a note about the blog, I also intend to post reviews of random things I've consumed. Books, movies, and whatever I find the time for. Something to fill up the page in between the monthly updates. A way to keep the juices flowing as it were.

Until the next time.

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