Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts

Monday, July 29, 2013

"One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer, So, Go Ahead and Take Another Bite."

Good summer morning to everybody in the whole world! Wow! I have really missed you guys.
This has been a busy summer for me and, I'm sorry to say, it has kept me away from y'all (or you all, in case you don't understand the southern English, which is the only correct way to speak English unless you are from the UK), how the heck are ya?
Hopefully, you have had a great time so far and I wish you all the best for the remainder of the year.
My wife retired from teaching at a public school this past spring. She lasted for 25 years! Everybody, let's give her a hand. I'll give her my left hand, because my right hand is not that dependable any longer. You can offer whichever hand you want to give to her.
Anyway, after two hot and short months she just could not stand being at home all the time, so today she went back to work as a teacher in a private school. I wish her Godspeed in her new endeavors.
I have had family visit me this summer, many of whom I have not seen in 10 years. It was great to see them all. My grandkids have grown much taller that the last time I saw them. I think that I have even shrunk a couple of inches since then too. The younger ones could almost look me in the eye and my granddaughter who is destined to become someone great is now 15 years old and taller than me. Life is truly passing me by and growing taller than I. Soon I'll shrivel up into a little frail old man that nobody can see except for my doctor who will only be able to do so through a magnifying glass.
My wife and I didn't go anywhere this summer, for lack of money, but we would have liked to. Maybe next year.
Today starts my new journey back into the world of writing. It all began here, the blog and will continue with a venture back into novel world. I have time on my hands now so that I can do it.
How about you? Have you done anything out of the ordinary this summer? I know that if you live in Colorado, then there's a good chance you spent the summer trying not to lose your home to wildfire. I hope that you are all safe. I live in Denver and close to downtown so the closest I got to the fires was watching it on TV. Those of you who have suffered during the fire season I want you to know that you are in my prayers.
Now I sit at home with just my computer and two dogs. Together, we will attempt to discover new worlds and meet new people through the journeys of my mind.
Please stay tuned. There is more to come.
P.S.  The title of this blog is a direct quote of Aristotle and Joel Wilson.  We both said it simultaneously when we were having fun at the skateboard park.  We both shouted it out as we passed each other on the half-pipe.  What a day that was!

Friday, March 8, 2013

Breaking Through the Ice

Hi friends!  It has been a few weeks since I blogged.  Today, I am trying to get back in the groove.  In my last posting I got political and I hate doing that.  Politics serves no good purpose and I really try to stay away from such debates.  I don't like to question the integrity of stupid unless it's due.

Nope, not today!  Today I am shaking off the tattered looks that discussions on politics leaves behind as a residue on our beings and I am opening the door to another discussion.

I am a writer!  More precisely, I am an author of two novels and am entertaining ideas for the third.  Writing is an art and like most writers, I've had to work hard at it.  The good thing about writing is that everything I put down on a digital piece of paper is subject to review before it is read by anyone.  If you were able to read my first draft of anything, that writing would expose me for the idiot that I am.  When I talk I do not have that protection and whatever I say is out there for all the world to wedgie me with.

Thank God that we now have computers.  The software helps me to preserve a measure of dignity by correcting errors or at least pointing them out to me so that I can make the needed improvements.  I remember the typing course I took way back in high school.  That was a chore!  We learned to type on worn out Underwood typewriters that no matter how hard you tried or how careful you were, the machine would mess it up for you and the teacher would always say it was my fault because the typewriter only types what I tell it to.  Oh, the mendacity!

I failed or almost failed many a test because of the evil Underwood.
thoise days are now in the past and typing hasn't goptten any easier fro me.  Oops!  I meant to type, those days are now in the past and typing hasn't gotten any easier for me.  The previous sentence is evidence of the mental damage that was created by the wicked manual machine.  I don't remember the location of all keys of the keyboard and if left up to the expertise of my fingers I often type badly misspelled words.  I have to watch my fingers do the typing.

Enough of that!  I am leaning towards a sequel to my latest, The Thorium Endeavor.  I left some things in the story unsettled specifically for this purpose.  I've not yet decided on whether to do the sequel now or later after I've seen how well received is the original story.

I could do a takeoff of Rescue of the Heart, too.  I've thought about Colleen and writing about her life after Jonas.


I don't know.  Tell me what you think.  Please leave your comments in the space below.

Thank you all for helping me to break through the ice and kick start my brain.  I must write now.  I will see you later.


If you have yet to read these two wonderful stories, I've provided links below to where you can get a copy for yourself.  They are available in paperback and in eBook at Amazon.com, B&N.com and on Smashwords.com




Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Rescue-Heart-1-Joel-Wilson/dp/1477485783/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362775963&sr=1-2&keywords=Rescue+of+the+Heart

http://www.amazon.com/Rescue-Heart-1-Joel-Wilson/dp/1477485783/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362775963&sr=1-2&keywords=Rescue+of+the+Heart

B&N.com:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rescue-of-the-heart-joel-wilson/1111887676?ean=9781477485781

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-thorium-endeavor-joel-wilson/1114668112?ean=9781482564426

Smashwords.com:
Rescue of the Heart (eBook)
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/275461

The Thorium Endeavor (eBook)
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/288612