Site Update

Hello everyone out there who may think I've fallen off the planet. I thought it may not be a bad idea to put together an update just to let you know why the writing has been so sparse the last couple months and to let you know what's happening in the future.

First of all, I just want to give you an idea of what I've been doing. In 2009, I wrote just under 30,000 words that you can see on this blog and about another 10,000 that you can't (because I'm not finished with those articles yet). This is not the only writing that I do either. Last year I also wrote another 100,000 words in various projects and if I count that right, that's right around 140,000 words, which is about the size of two medium-sized novels. Needless to say, I got just a bit burnt out with writing.

I was going to take a two week break from writing over the holidays, but I decided to extended it to about a two month break because I just couldn't get back into the swing of things. However, I'm definitely getting back into the groove now and I foresee some more articles coming in the future.

I need to be realistic though. I was originally trying to complete 4 articles a week for this blog, 3 for another, and between two other blogs 1 a week. That as well as writing everything else I write is just too much for me, so I'm going to cut back a little bit and try to pace myself.

I'm going to commit to trying to write one article a week for this blog. I normally like posting on Tuesday, but instead of committing to a specific deadline, what I will say is that most likely there will be at least one new article here per week and that will most likely be on Tuesday. I expect that I will write more than that on occasion as well, so I'm leaving myself room to write up to 4 articles a week, on Sun, Tues, Wed and Thurs.

I've had a lot of positive response from what I write, so I don't want to neglect this blog any longer. I hope to write more this year over all than I did last year, and if I get the time, I'll keep bumping up the amount of work I do. Remember, I don't just write, I also go over what I've written several times editing and polishing, trying to produce a good product, so there's a considerable amount of time and energy that I commit to writing, so when I feel the need, I will take a break once in a while. Still for the foreseeable future, I think my writing is going to be back to normal, whatever that is.