Progress Check

So I've always been a slacker, a procrastinator...a take your own timer. Like I said in my first post, which of course was weeks ago...but seriously, who cares? Nobody is reading this anyway and when somebody finally does, they'll be posted one right after the other. I digress, like I said in my first post, I've wanted to be a writer for over 20 years but have never done anything about it.

Most recently, I had been working on a novel off and on for at least the last 2 years. I'd write for a couple hours here or there, then forget about it for months, come back write again...blah blah blah. I'm very proud of it. It will be a successful novel once it's done. Only one person has read what I've completed so far and she called me the second she finished so I could tell her how it ends.

Anyway, in the 2(ish) years I've been working on it I have completed a little over 17,000 words. Probably about a quarter of the way done. 5 weeks ago, I learned about self publishing, started researching it and working on the novel that I could turn into a long running series, if it's successful of course. As I sit here, that novel is currently sitting at 17,773 words. I wrote 1400 words this morning, 1300 yesterday, 1000 the day before and you get the picture. Anyway, I'm really excited at my progress.

My DVR is starting to fill up but I did take a break today for about 3 hours to watch the A's beat the Mariners...I'm not perfect.

Time to get back at it. Hopefully another 1000 words before Breakout Kings in a few hours.

Putting it out There

I've been battling weight issues since about the 4th grade except for an amazing stretch of 4 years during college. It's been a bitter fight and I've had a constant gym membership for the past 14 years. For a short span when I moved to Utah, I actually had two gym memberships but we won't dwell on that.

I go through spurts, sometimes I work out 3-5 times a week and give it a real honest effort and sometimes I go months without going. When I am giving it an honest effort, I never tell my friends about it. The reason I don't is because if and when I fail or sluff off, if I haven't told anybody I haven't put it out there and I can keep my faliure to myself.

That's not the point of this post or this blog for that matter. The point is, I've wanted to be a writer since I was 17 years old. I did nothing about that until I was 21 and then at about 23 I didn't do anything about it until I was 30. For the past 8 years I've written on and off, here and there. I have great ideas and think I at least have the building blocks to be a decent writer but I never follow through. I'll write for awhile, then come up with another idea and abandon the previous for the latter. The beauty is, if I ever do get off my ass, I'll have a lot of projects to choose from.

So that's what I'm doing, I'm putting it out there. I've started a new novel which has the possibility of being a long running series if I want and I want to self publish in on Kindle and see what happens. I'm closing in on 40 years old....a year away but still closing in and it's time to finally put my stuff out there for people to see and make their own decision on....even if it is self published.

Now granted, I'm not telling anybody about this blog so nobody will see it...at least not right away. Hopefully someday people will but what is it they say about the Internet, once you put something on there it's impossible to take down?

For me, that's a start....and hopefully this is too.