Bringing this Blog to a Close for Now, but Keep Writing!

As you may have guessed from my abysmal updating record since the spring (perhaps even last winter), my other commitments are really encroaching on this blog. Once I updated daily, sometimes twice, like a good blogger! I'd rather not go out in a haze of "Sorry I haven't posted for three months" posts (which I may have been doing in any case!) So, for now, I accept reality, work on my other projects, and say a fond farewell.

Meanwhile, please do peruse my earlier posts and archives; there's some advice there for beginning writers on things like finding agents, getting published, carving out time, and making sure you're not scammed. And I want you all to keep plugging. Good luck to my friend Cathy, who's taking two weeks of vacation, not to gamble it away in Vegas, but to spend a chunk of time writing. And I leave you with this thought of Cory Doctorow's:

"People today spend as much time as they can possibly drag themselves away from the real world to sit in front of the screen reading text, and I would argue that the text they are reading, the thing they are treating like a book, is a book."

So think on that, start a blog, and write a novel. Email me if I can answer any questions. And good luck!