Starting a Journal . . . Again

I don't know how many times I have read some sort of book or advice column on writing that says that a writer should keep a journal. I have tried this innumerable times and have always failed. Part of the problem is that I wait to write the journal entry until the very end of the night when I am drooling from fatigue. Another problem is that I inevitably write something personal and then dread the idea of having so much of me down on paper. My forays into journal writing usually end with me tearing the entries out and ripping them up. Despite this, I will open up my graph-paper composition book (don't ask me why; I just like them) and try again.

Blogging but Longing for Fiction

I started another blog in addition to this one and the Charles Darwin Blog. This new one is called Socket Wrench, and it describes all the blood, sweat, and tears (oh so many tears) that go into fixing and maintaining my and my wife's first house.

Though I am happy I am doing the blogs, I want to get back to fiction. I am trying to figure out how to fit it in and still be able to do freelance editing to pay down my bills. Suddenly, the final scene is Fight Club is looking pretty appealing. Not the part where Ed Norton shoots himself in the head, but rather the part where all the major credit-card company buildings implode.

Back From a Long Hiatus

Well, I have completed my MFA in creative writing and now have six stories sitting on my hard drive. I cannot get to them to finish because I am doing freelance editing to make ends meet. I also have a gig writing for the Charles Darwin Blog. It is fun, but I am itching to give my stories a final line-by-line edit and get them out to some publishers. I also have a number of novel ideas kicking around in my head and I wonder, with the freelance and the day job, when I am ever going to find the time. I think I have the solution: no sleep!

I plan on posting here at least once a day. Check back for some good posts and lots of rants.