It has been a year. Really? A year? Yes and that may seem atrocious to most writers and some readers but the fact is that I have been writing. Yes indeed. Not every day, mind you, but yes, fingers have stroked keys in the past year and I've started a new novel. More about the new novel later, let's examine why I am here now. Why now, this Monday morning, am I drawn to Blogspot with a cold cup of coffee at my right elbow and my feet shoved into smelly slippers? It all started with an email fron Freedom With Writing, an organization that sends out tips for getting writing jobs. This particular tip covered networking for clients at meetings, which made me realize that I don't have business cards.
Cut to me opening up Pages, my Mac word processing application, and picture me designing business cards. Actually don't picture that because all I did was use a template, which simplifies the process down to filling in the required information. But you may picture me putting my picture on the business card, because that's what I did. I figure a smiling face is hard to crumple up and throw away. Let's hope so anyway. So one of the required bits of information was a website address. "Hey!" I said to myself (not really), "I have one of those."
It had been so long since I'd looked at my blog, I had to Google myself in order to find it. And like a childhood friend that you used to tease and torture yet has grown up and forgiven you for being jerk, there it was, right where I left it. And hence, via the pervasive and omnipresent nature of the internet, I had a web address all set to put on my business card. It's www.howshedoesit.blogspot.com in case you've forgotten where you are. And that's how I wound up where I am.
Aside from starting the new novel I have discovered a writer's retreat in Vermont. It's called When Words Count. It's run by two delightful men who've hired a brilliant chef to feed writers that come for a quiet room with a desk in it. Every day at 5:00 they have a cocktail hour before dinner in front of a fire in what's known as The Gertrude Stein Room. You can't beat that for a good time. Sitting and talking with other writers has never disappointed me.
So here you have it: the first blog post in over a year. It's better late than never, which, most of the time, is how she does it.
