And so the first few hectic days of moving to a new site settle down, and only one simple question lingers on my mind. "What now?"
The businessman in me wants to focus on expanding sales and getting interest in my work to steadily grow. I'm thinking deals of the week, custom mugs, fund-raiser banquets! Or maybe not yet. Instead I do believe it would be best for me to hog-tie the inner businessman, stuff a sock in his mouth, lock him in the closet, and let the writer do the work. After all, he has nothing to sell without me, and while I am writing in part for the money, I am writing primarily to write, to tell stories that cause books to be thrown at walls (gently please!), to breathe life into characters that live now only in my mind, and to teach the world what it means to follow the light. In the year 2011 I took part in a great challenge called NaNoWriMo. That is, National Novel Writer's Month. The aim of this brilliant lunacy is to write 50,000 words in one month. It was November, I was in high-school, I was involved in after school activities, and on top of it all I was freshly in love with a wonderful girl. With all that in mind, I wrote 50,000 words in a month. Not only were they words, they were words that were built together into something of a story. There was a beginning, an end, and a wibbly bit in the middle. Light and Shadow was born. To be fair, it was not a great story. I've edited it quite a bit since then, and now, four years later, I intend to finish it. So thank you for joining me on this grand expedition. I look forward to seeing the sights together. And if you'd like to be an encouragement along the way I would love to hear from you! And don't forget to send in a pledge! Some of them are pretty good deals! And tell your friends! (Ok, ok, that was the businessman again. I'll find some tougher duct-tape.)
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