the tindog coffeehouse

I had been making pretty good progress on my novel up until about a month and a half ago.  Then I got slammed at work, which caused me to put other personal projects on hold, even those outside of work.  Then as I was finally starting to catch up, I got sick with a horrible sinus infection, which took me about three weeks to fully recover from.  As a result, the writing came to a halt, and it’s been really tough getting back up and running.

So late last week, I went back through everything I had written so far (which is a lot) and made some minor corrections and adjustments.  Then I gave it all to Christy to read so I could get some well-needed feedback.

Thanks to that feedback, I now have a lot more work to do on it.  Granted, it needs to be done, and I’m very thankful for her help.  But it’s also a little frustrating because it means it’s going to take me a lot longer to finish it than what I was hoping.

If I can keep going, though, I think the end product will be worth the effort.  But for now, I better roll up my sleeves and get busy.

I mentioned back in April that I’m busy writing my first (and hopefully not my last) novel. Well, I figure I’m about 25% of the way there. That’s a pretty big milestone for me. I know I’ve got a long way to go, but I’m far enough into it that I can look back and be encouraged by my progress.

I’m excited about what I’ve written so far. It’s been really fun and really, really hard. Much harder than I imagined. I’ve written short stories before, even longish short stories, but never something of this magnitude and complexity. I’m not sure exactly how it’ll be received when it’s all said and done, but I think I’m personally going to be very satisfied.

I don’t want to go into details just yet about the plot, but I will say that it involves a young boy from the South, his African-American companion, and the Mississippi River. OK, just kiddin’ about that one.

I’m still here. Obviously haven’t been too active with the whole blogging thing. Say, how did the presidential primaries end up anyway? Really? You’re kidding! You’re not kidding? Holy cow!

Anyway, I haven’t been blogging because I’ve been busy working on a novel, my first novel actually. It’s going well. Hoping to be finished with the manuscript by around this time next year, and then we’ll see what happens from there. Stay tuned.

Consequently, I may not be blogging much between now and then. Between the novel, my job, and the rest of my life, blogging hasn’t been the highest priority for me lately. I know how that disappoints my thousands hundreds tens of readers out there. [Crickets chirping.]

OK, then. Well, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed and check back periodically, as I’ll try to be more punctual with the blog posts in the future.

Seacrest out!