Daily Archives: July 22, 2009

For the past few days I have been toying around with an idea, mentally batting at it with my paw and watching it swing tauntingly back and forth in front of me like a cat’s toy telling me to go for it on every tick and to forget it on every tock. What good is going for it, trying to achieve success, if you’re too chicken-shit to put yourself out there and take risks? My grandmother is the one who talked me into writing again, hence the reason I dedicated Seven Days of Terror to her; and I took that plunge, put myself out there, and you know what? It wasn’t that bad. In fact, it wasn’t bad at all. I’ve had nothing but good reviews on my first contribution to the literary world.
As an aside, my lovely and much trusted editor gave me a rave review on the first chapter of Piratas, even though it was only a rough copy I wanted to run by her. How’s that for stoking the old creative fire? Not only did I get a good review, I got a damn rave.
What I’ve been toying with is, since my one true literary passion is the art of the short story – on occasion short, short stories but mostly short, short, short stories; Seven Days of Terror is written in the short, short, short story format – I have decided I would start writing a “short” every so often – bi-monthly installments is the tentative plan – and posting them on my website for all the world to see (err, read) – for free. It is my hope that people will read these, subscribe to them – more on that in a minute – and perhaps even be compelled to purchase my books.
Being that I have this blog’s posts feeding to my site using Google Feedburner, I plan to do the same with my “shorts” – create a new blog and post them all there. From there, I will “feedburn” them to a page on my site that will automatically get updated whenever I post a new one. Creating a new blog and posting them there will also allow my readers to subscribe to my updates via my RSS feed.
In short, keep an eye open for my Shorts!