It’s a strange little world when you blog. It’s even stranger when you blog and write novels. It’s completely unhinged when you blog, write novels, are Santa, and do voice over work as well as acting. Your sense of self and accomplishment becomes strangely diminished because you have your feet in so many parts of that Venn diagram that is life. It is a constant blur of footwork trying to avoid falling down or floating off in the breeze.
And you, dear readers, help me with that grounding. I try to write at least three days a week, often more. But today was one of those days where I really didn’t anticipate posting much, if anything. Yet two emails and a personal word of encouragement from a coworker inspired me to write five pieces. Not that they’ll all appear this weekend, but they are now ideas to go forward with this week.
Add to that a silly chat session on Facebook that has given me the plot for a really frightening novel. It’s part science fiction, part occult, mainly Christian. I think even my A.C.F.W. colleagues will approve of it if I get it done. And given the series of doors God has opened in the 72 hours since I came up with the idea it seems to be pretty much written in stone that I churn this book out. The best part? I can probably write off a trip to Jerusalem for research. Yeah, baby!
So, please feel at ease in sending me emails and comments on the blog. You don’t have to send it to me for posting, you can send it to me at joseph AT commotioninthepews dot com. (Yeah, I had to do the @ AT thing to avoid the trove of Viagra ads my inbox would otherwise fill up with.) I’d love to hear from you. Even if it’s criticism. Of course I have my filters set to remove all the really nasty stuff before it shows up.
Thanks for reading. It really does mean a lot to me.
