I’ve been thinking that this blog could use a little attention. My problem is—well, one of my problems—I lead a double life. I write fiction under a pseudonym because my real nym is tied to a respectable job. So it goes.
One of the solutions to my double life is that I could start putting some fiction on this blog. Good idea or no? I have a novel on which I’m working and it won’t likely find a publisher, so I could start pasting it here, in serial form.
On the other hand of my double life I have a nonfiction book under my nonfiction name that is currently due at the publisher’s. I need to spend time on that too, and I have a job. And the lawn isn’t going to mow itself.
So I’m thinking that instead of neglecting this poor, but truly loved, child of a blog, maybe I could feed it fiction. That would at least keep it alive. Right now it’s like a cactus, getting water only a few times a year. Is that a mixed metaphor? Can water be food?
When daily work life requires more than its allotted eight hours, trying to get noticed as a writer is tough. It can be done, though. I’ve been working away on this fun fiction (not fan fiction because I don’t get into that) for a while now and soon I may have enough to launch my plan.
Risky? Yes. Putting yourself out there always is. But keeping myself in here hasn’t really been working exactly like a charm. Or maybe it has and my charm has gone past its expiration date. Whatever your interpretation, this is just a warning that this rusty Ford might just start running again. All it will take is a bit of gas and maybe a trip to the garage.
If a new format begins to appear, you have been warned!
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