I think I am back, now.

Life got a little complicated after my last post.  You know the old saying: If you want God to laugh, tell Him your plans.

Aside from family business, a little surgery, the death of a friend, and a long list of projects with deadlines, there was the two-fold problem for me related to blogging.

The first was that I was trying to blog in a universal format for outlets on my Amazon pages as well as my website and the process proved incompatible.  I may havefound another approach to this problem and the next couple of days will tell.

The other problem is feeling that I have something to say on a regular basis. 

I am a storyteller.  As such, I have readers for those particular formats.  I am told, however, that some members of a writer's audience want to peek behind the curtains and get a better look at the process...or previews of what's in the works...or get a little more insight into the author, him/herself.

I am uncomfortable with pontificating.  The internet is filled with the bloggings of people who are not shy about expressing their every thought, feeling, or attitude about anything and everything under the sun.  I don't want to be one of those bloggers.  And investing a lot of time and energy into a blog is time and energy I am not spending on the next novel.  I have a day job.  I have additional, professional responsibilities that lay claims to my time.  And now I have an additional, daily committment that I must keep if I want to keep writing for another decade or two.

So, I think the solution (if the first part works) is to reprioritize my postings and be a little more regular if not a little briefer. 

And since I will want to respond to posts to my website newsgroup where I engage in conversations with readers and friends, I will have to see how this new multiposting process will filter across the platforms.

But I think I have solved the first hurdle with this post.

I hope the holidays have been good for you...so far...and that we all have a better passage into the New Year.

Cheers!

Wm. Mark Simmons