New Beginnings and Tieing Ends

2010

In years past I have made the cliche new years resolution to lose weight. I've read the diet books, like "You on a Diet" by the Opra-made-famous Dr. Oz, tried the silly slim "milk shakes" (or so they pretend to call them). I have always gotten tired of the blandness of the diet.

This year I'm going to change the direction of my new years resolution to something more productive: finishing my own novel. I'm going to admit that I have already cheated this resolution because I have already started this resolution almost a year ago. It's a project I have been working on off and on, mostly in the coffee cafes of Books a Million. I figure that if I can somehow construct a best seller, just one, I'd be able to establish a writers road for myself, carving some kind of road for myself to start my writing career.

I don't know if you have noticed, but the job market for any kind of writer is as slim and transparent as a clear thread: impossible to detect. This makes me afraid.

This is another reason I started this blog. I was hoping to figure out how to write an established blog, attract readers and comments and then make some money off the advertising. So far, this has not happened. Most of the time I write on this, I feel like I'm talking to a blank computer screen. Well.....I guess I am, aren't I?

Why not make two new years resolutions:
1. finish my book
2. make a successful blog

Stay tuned.