Before I begin: Look! New header graphic! I decided that since I’m restarting things a little bit, I’d spruce up the place with a change in the header. It’s subdued, isn’t it? I was going for something a little low-key, in light of the previous graphic, which was white on black, with a pixelated graphic of Jet Black from Cowboy Bebop. This time, it’s a colorful graphic of the man, leaning against the wall. Took me forever to do the neon graphic on the right-hand side, though.
Also: Facebook peeps can now auto-connect to this blog, using their login information. I don’t save any information for commenting. It’s all handled by the Facebook API. The only way I save your info is if you register for an account here on the WordPress site. Oh, and LJ folks will have to come to WordPress to comment, as I have disabled comments on LJ. I’m trying to drive traffic here to my WP site. But don’t worry, OpenID is here to save the day! It’s all good here at jetblack’s place!
Now, on to the original topic of this post…
So most or some of you are aware that I write. Relative to the beginning of this year, I managed to finish a lingering short story from the previous year (2009), and I’m actually in the middle of another short story I’m submitting to an archive for free, public consumption (ie: I’m not selling it). It’s a romance piece, written under a pseudonym I will not mention on this blog. But I wanted to talk about how I’m enjoying this forward momentum and I hope to use that momentum into writing another piece and then one more after that. After all, one of my new year’s resolutions (see previous post) is to write 10 shorts and 2 novels by my next birthday.
My writing blog has quite a bit of dust covering it, and I’ll be honest… I only use it for the original science-fiction stuff. But with the current pieces I’m writing, there’s no real outlet for me to detail my progress and kind of keep some sort of openly visible accountability. Here’s as good as any place, so I’ve installed some progress meters and Works in Progress updates on the sidebar to the left. I’m using Untitled #55 as a code name for my current paranormal story… because the title isn’t set, yet. Kind of scary that I have had that many writing projects started (not all of them finished, either) in my untitleds directory. I’ll write more about why I number the new stories in such a fashion in a later post. Some of you have already heard it.
If you’re reading this on Livejournal, you’re probably noticing that all of a sudden, I’m posting there. Well, it’s really because of exposure, but also, I kind of miss connecting with my friends on LJ. Since I moved off, I haven’t had much in the way of people commenting (and also, I lost my drive to actually post, which precludes commenting in the first place, right?), and I felt like I was shouting into this void with no one listening. Of course, in the end, it’s more about writing and just thinking out loud sometimes. So, here I am.
