A little bit each day...

I am told that I need to have 80,000 to 120,000 word count for a publisher to consider it worth taking a look at, and I have several stupid ideas about trying to write a great novel in 30 days....which I think is absolutely nuts.  I've been researching and note-taking for a year, and now I'm ready to begin the 1st of the 13 book series, which will culminate in a 5 book follow up series.  I expect it to take me approximately 4 to 5 months per year to write each novel, and the rest preparation for the next; I expect a lot out of me, and goddamn't if I fail, it ain't gonna be because I wasn't dedicated to the project!

Sunday Fun Day

In modern America it is a bit odd to come across the still Puritanical Liquor Laws that keep such establishments as liquor stores closed on Sundays; coming from a state like Hawaii that sells everything in the grocery store, this seems a bit out of time...but this does keep some traditions for what I'm told is called "Sunday Fun Day."  The boys pull out there Harley, Honda, and other rides cruise the countryside, and make the expected parade through the various little towns, meeting up and various "watering holes" to satisfy that parched desire for a frosty glass of amber summer solstice and keep the journey and experience a social one.  I was invited along on this and I was given the grand tour or farm, female, and fermentation; it was great experience, a memory I'll be keeping and met great people!

Meeting new people / making new friends!

It's been a long sojourn into this isolated hermit-ish style existence I chose to call life; a sad commentary on the last few years as I buried myself in morose and found no comfort.  New beginnings demand change!  I demand more of me; to find in people the social allowance that we all find necessary I have to give more of me, and I'm doing that here in my new community, and the people here are very easy with which to do so.

How do I get to know a new area?

I go for a run!

10 miles and a couple of hours later I get an idea of the surrounding layout of the community I may call home for awhile.  Walking and Running is the way I always get to know these facts:  I get out the first couple of weeks and walk the entire vicinity, get to know the local businesses, and hit the pavement running, and find my way around.  Once I know the ground, then I'm all set to drive anyway I need to go.

Burn the ships!!!!! Carpe Diem

Great day of productive business work of the writing career.  I feel good with what I got accomplished today.  I designed my new business cards, obtained the name for the .com that will be my webpage for published works, links to

blogs, and hopefully, what will become a real lucrative investment giving the time and commitment to broadcasting and selling my name and the works that go with it.  I'm excited about it; the tangible aspects of my new career beginning to shape up as I leave the ideas of the business behind, the dreams of the past burn with the ships to return to safe harbors, and the new day is mine to seize and claim as my own!

Born In the USA

"Born in the U.S.A."
Bruce Springsteen – Born In The U.S.A.

The song roaring out the patriotism and 80's feel good rock fills my ears as I down a couple of pints at the local American Legion, a place that could become a staple in my daily diet of the local Midwestern experience now my new hometown dig.  It is a new venture into my whole approach to embracing the path of career, experience, and discovery as I leave the old behind.  I set aside the past, give it's proper place of homage upon the shelves of the den, the portraits along the hall, and leave it for the themes of nostalgia for future Widsom blogs, teaching for the young and laughs for the fools who shared those days with me.