While on my afternoon break at the office Wednesday, I was scanning through my Google Reader feeds when I came across a blog post from New To Writing Girl. The post outlined some of her goals for the new year. After leaving a comment and reading the response, I thought it would be a good idea to come up with a short list of my own. I could write pages upon pages of things that I would like to accomplish …
Month: January 2011
Over the past few weeks I have been walking past the family bookcase and thinking that something has to be done with it. We have books stacked ontop of other books. Paperbacks wedged into tight spaces in an effort to contain all of our reading material to one space. Staring at this form of ordered chaos, I got to thinking. Am I ever going to re-read some of these books? First on my list of questionable re-reads was the Sword …
On a quiet Sunday morning I was in bed. My head nestled into a soft pillow, eyes closed, not asleep but not entirely away either. There were two quick vibrations on my nightstand followed by the sound of a tweeting bird. The alert, which I recognized in an instant, was my phone informing me that I had received a Twitter Direct Message. A few minutes passed and the alert nagged at the back of my mind. What if it was …
Several months ago, I finished up the Tawny Man Trilogy by Robin Hobb and was in search of another epic fantasy tale. After several glowing recommendations, I decided to go with The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. Shortly after starting in on the first book, my free time became erratic. It took a considerable amount of time to read The Blade Itself and Before They Are Hanged. By the time I hit book three, Last Argument of Kings, I …
November was National Novel Writing Month and I decided that I wanted to give it a try. The goal was to write 50,000 words throughout the month, creating a rough draft of a novel. When I got started, I knew that it was going to be very difficult. With a newborn in the house, time to sit down and write was tough to come by. In addition, there was my wedding anniversary, birthdays, and Thanksgiving demanding my time and attention. …
With my infant daughter getting older, I find myself blessed with a bit more free time that I have been accustomed to over the past six months. My little girl has moved into a phase of keeping herself occupied and doesn’t require me, or my wife, entertaining her around the clock. These bits of free time have allowed me to pick back up some of the hobbies that I put on the proverbial back burner. The hobby that I was …
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