At this dawning of the rolling year, it is more than normally desirable that we make some slight provision for improving our behavior. Some people try to lose weight or stop smoking. Others look for a better job or start a hobby. I’ve vowed to finish my book. And to accommodate that effort I will be clearing the mornings for writing and editing the book. This may impact my posting schedule (from time to time) but I think it’s necessary. Time slips by too quickly if there are too many competing priorities.
Now I don’t intend to abandon the website. OCF will have its daily photo and quote. And whenever something needs my approbation, scorn or explanation I will promptly respond. And I will link to anything that I think interesting or thought-provoking. But when there’s a slow news week and I’ve already gassed off about the usual suspects I may just take a pass. On days like that maybe I’ll link to a song I like or a clip from a movie that makes me smile.
And from time to time, I’ll put up a chunk of my story to get feedback from the readers here. And I’ll write about writing sometimes!
So, none of this is dire. With Trump entering the White House in a couple of weeks I’m sure I’ll have all kinds of stimuli for posts that will make it impossible to do my fiction writing work. After all, the world is drifting into troubled times and that is sure to goad me into taking to my little soap box and barking out condemnations and propounding simple-minded plans of action.
But I do see that I’ll have to prioritize writing if I ever hope to finish that darn book. I do think there is some writing in me. And I won’t know how hard or easy selling books is until I give it a good old American try.
As for the news today, we’ve all been watching the attack in New Orleans and then listened to Biden try to string a few dozen sentences together without sounding like Max Headroom (and failing). I love how he tells us the guy is a follower of ISIS but not to jump to conclusions. So, because he’s a Moslem whose parents came from the Middle East and he’s declared jihad on America we shouldn’t jump to the conclusion that he’s an Islamic terrorist? Would that be insensitive to the various followers of the religion of peace? Well, never mind. Biden is so laughably irrelevant that he might as well have started to read from a Dr. Seuss book as the words of that speech his handlers handed him. More interesting would have been a statement from Trump advising the federal law enforcement agents not to destroy any of the evidence before his team has a chance to see what really went on. Well, this is a small part of what I expect at the border for the foreseeable future. So, it barely merits comment. Let’s pray nothing bigger is in the wings.
And just to show that my heart is in the right place, I’ll put together a few things that might lighten your day.