{"id":36629,"date":"2026-04-20T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=36629"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:45:22","slug":"book-writing-and-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/book-writing-and-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Writing and Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing \u201cThe Sniper\u201d was a massive learning experience for me.\u00a0 Not only does it take up a lot of time but it also makes it much harder to do other things at the same time.\u00a0 And vice versa!\u00a0 Working, blogging and taking care of my other responsibilities really slowed down my book writing performance drastically.\u00a0 And the time has come to begin writing the sequel.<\/p>\n<p>So, something is going to have to give.\u00a0 My decision is to cut back on the blogging.\u00a0 Believe it or not even knocking out five hundred words has been taking a couple of hours.\u00a0 And when I\u2019m doing it at ten or eleven at night the quality has been way down.\u00a0 The old brain just doesn\u2019t click like it used to at that hour.<\/p>\n<p>So, what I see happening is the posts will be hit and miss.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be able to keep the photos and quotes going without much strain.\u00a0 But if I find myself scrambling for a theme, I\u2019ll let it slide until I\u2019ve got one that makes sense.\u00a0 Quality over quantity.\u00a0 It makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>So, my apologies for my laziness but I am a man with definite limits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC02083.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34929\" src=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC02083.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1404\" height=\"1089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC02083.jpg 1404w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC02083-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC02083-1024x794.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC02083-768x596.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1404px) 100vw, 1404px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Late-Night-Cthulhu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34022\" src=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Late-Night-Cthulhu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Late-Night-Cthulhu.jpg 720w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Late-Night-Cthulhu-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing \u201cThe Sniper\u201d was a massive learning experience for me.\u00a0 Not only does it take up a lot of time but it also makes it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3366,1289,818,1263],"tags":[2456,76,1290],"class_list":["post-36629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-life-in-dunwich","category-fiction-by-me","category-ocf","category-stuff-that-personally-interests-me-miscellaneous","tag-blogging","tag-fiction-writing","tag-my-fiction"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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