At Long Last

If at first you don’t succeed, try try again.

Well, at first I tried blogging. Then something happened. Now, three-and-a-half years later, I’m try-try-againing. Things have definitely changed during my brief sabbatical. I’m probably the only one reading this, but I’ll give myself a brief recap of some of the things anyway.

Graduation. Job. Marriage. Homeowner. Dad-to-be.

Moving on. Life is full of twists and turns and excitement. Due to these, it means life can also be busy. I’m trying to set habits for some of the various things I like doing, but it means that I can either spend less time per week on them, or need to space out my self-ascribed schedule. I’m involved in a few different weekly athletic events; I’m part of a writing group; I have a booklist I’m reading through; I want to work on wood skills; 3D printing is still a hobby (but neglected recently); and I want to improve my electrical/coding know-how. On top of that, Staci and I are new homeowners – I’m super excited for finding and starting and finishing projects around the house. I got a guitar a few months back and want to reach a basic proficiency at it. Could be fun to pick up the bagpipes again. Summer is here, and with that additional outdoor activities (I’m looking forward to good ol’ fashioned BBQs again). End of summer, we’ll hopefully have a healthy son staying up with us at night. The list could continue (probably not for very long though, to be honest).

All these things. So why then would I take time to blog? I see it as an avenue to better express thoughts, changes, updates, original literary projects, and the like. Better than say a quick Insta-pic or a FB post. To me, those can be snapshots, and for the most part I give the Jim-Halpert-camera-look if someone has too many words on a post. That’s because to me, those social media platforms are for brevity. That’s why you don’t really see me posting too much, or too long. If you want a quick idea what I’m up to on occasion, follow me there. If you’re ready to be bored with things that I for some strange reason find fascinating or think I wrote well, then this is the place for you. Welcome to my blog.

I'm pretty excited for what I have planned for this (know this, that plans go awry). I've got a couple different literary projects that I hope to populate this blog with. These include short stories and excerpts of potentially longer ones. Some original, others less original. One of my first goals is to pull back the cobwebs and re-examine The Fairytale my brother Ben and I were writing. Perhaps there is still some gold to be gleaned.

I'm also working on a fantasy world. I have a couple different storylines in this. Working on developing what a culture would look like is thrilling. Trying to then stop that and actually write a story that doesn't sound like a history book is the challenge.

Some additional things I'll look forward to writing would be events in my life, or cool projects/stories I've come across, or thoughts and theories that are on my mind. Sooo that basically covers everything. If you stayed this long, you deserve a gold star! But sadly, I'm not sponsored so can't give those out. I'll hopefully post again later this month, but my goal will be at least monthly. I may have my act together enough to do it more often.