A brief post today to acknowledge the long break between my preview posts of Noah's Custodian and the bit about Michael Crichton. As I say right in the description of this blog, it's difficult for a 'part-time' writer to write everyday, especially being a family man with a career.
That said, my career- love it as I do- is my second choice. My first choice would be to be a writer, though to look at how I spend my leisure time you wouldn't think it.
I harp on my children on how you have to work at something to achieve your goal. I'm a hypocrit in that regard- I believe I have the talent to be a published author. Don't know if I can make a living at it, and that's not really the point. But it is a dream of mine, within my power to achieve, if I just put in the work. So, immediately upon posting this, I'm getting back to editing Noah's Custodian. My self-imposed deadline is rushing toward me.
The take-away: do something every day that gets you closer to your goal, no matter how trivial it may seem. In my case, even if I sit down to edit a paragraph or write 100 new words, it's progress. Not ideal.. but progress none-the-less. If I wrote just 100 words a day, that would be 36,500 by the end of the year- about half way through a 300 page novel. I know I can do better than that, but it illustrates the point.
Back to work!
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