Writing Again
Well I’ve finally decided to get off my ass and start doing that writing thing again. Not just blogging, but actual writing (hopefully for profit). I used to write short fiction and did a few opinion articles, but then I lost track of what I was doing and kind of gave up. I guess a large part of my loss of motivation was that many magazines still require you to mail in stories and I just refuse to not live in the total digital age. My loss really.
For the moment I’m not going back to fiction though. I have some ideas in that realm, but they don’t mix well with working full-time. At the moment I will be focusing my efforts on things I know enough about to be helpful. Those are self-help and (to some extent) travel.
My self-help book is on saying no, assertiveness, and self-promotion by saying no. Once it is closer to done I will reveal the title. At the moment I am more paranoid about having the title stolen from under me.
The travel book… Some of my friends know that I cam close to a full mental breakdown when I moved to Japan. So I will be gathering together my collection of OMG WTF! moments and turning them into a “How Not to Travel” guide. With the continual stream of young foreigners going to teach abroad I think it should do a fair bit to ease some of the pain of being in a new country.
I’ll try to keep putting up occasional status updates. It should really help keep me on track and actually working on the projects if I think people know I’m supposed to be writing them.
Who knows, if people are really interested I may recruit editors to help me once things get toward their conclusion.
