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31st August, 2009 - No Comments

So I’m on my third book about creating a successful blog now. I’ve got lots of little bookmarks in the first two. I’ve learned a lot and I’m still learning. I don’t know where it’s going to take me, but I have a better picture now of what I’m looking at. I have a lot of planning to do.

I did the 30 minutes of fiction a day for about three weeks until I realized that, while not entirely pointless, it was getting me nowhere. I was writing, sure, but I wasn’t creating or communicating. If I’m going to write every day, it ought to be something meaningful at the least, and towards a goal at the best. It felt more like I was doing it because I “should” and not because it was what I Wanted to do.

This poem by Bukowski is taped by my desk and it keeps coming to mind.

Yesterday, I found the first three books of the Spellsinger series by Alan Dean Foster at Half Price Books, they were only $1.48 a piece, so I own them once again! This makes me very happy.   I don’t remember how many there are, or what happened to my previous copies, but it was a great find for me.

Had to send an extra copy of my Grant submission package because I somehow only sent three instead of four, but that’s taken care of now. Found a few more places to possibly submit work. Now to create more work.