My last blog post was on 12/06/2019. It was titled “A Brief Hiatus”. Well, here I am again. It’s been a bit longer than the brief break I intended to take, and I’ll detail some of that here (at least the parts that matter).

First thing to address, I’m writing blog posts again! Nobody really reads them as it stands, but they’re going to be here. For those that wander in from the dark and need a place to stay for a moment. Now, there were previously quite a few blogs posted on my old website. They’ve been archived, because I feel like the things I had to say about the craft then were coming from a place of far less experience, and they don’t reflect how I look at it today. Maybe I’ll touch some of them up and bring them back someday.

I posted regularly before. Once or twice a week if memory serves. That’s all well and good, but it takes away from the important thing: writing. So, my goal here is going to be to throw something up here once a month, get some engagement if I can, and continue with my novel and short story work, which is keeping me plenty busy.

In the last six years in one big sentence: I got married during Covid, I left teaching for IT as a day job, I bought a house, Amigo (my chihuahua of 18 years) passed away, Holliday the dog joined the family, we had our wedding reception two years late, I pitched Fractured Compass and learned that 220,000 words for a debut novel is far too long, I decided to go back to school and finish my bachelors at University of Green Bay Wisconsin, I started a new novel that will be far more marketable, and I stopped wearing shirts with quippy things on them because I just don’t think I can pull that off anymore in my thirties. You’re all caught up!

Welcome back, to those that might have read before, and welcome to those that haven’t. I’m excited to be back to ramble about things I’m passionate about in a space that’s all mine. To share the work I do so later I can point at it to an agent and say “look at this platform, isn’t it shiny?”.

Thanks for reading.