I was looking back over my archives today between patients, and it's sort of interesting to see what was catching my fancy at various times.

At one point I was totally passionate about health care reform and the problems with our medical system. Other times I was very into writing about various authors and books I'd been experiencing. At still other times I was getting into music. Or sports. Or travel.

I had a lot of entries in most years. I probably averaged 5 or 6 a month for a period of time there. Now I'm lucky if I do one or two.

I haven't been updating my Chicago sports blog, and my Disney blog updates have been infrequent. I don't know why...just don't feel like I have much to say. Don't have the time to put deep enough thought into a topic to come up with a cogent presentation about a fact. Have been overly concerned with reading other blogs. I have a whole list of Author Blogs under my Favorites tab, and reading Joe Konrath's blog, Dean Wesley Smith's blog, and several others has taken up a lot of time.

Too much time.

One thing about reading some of these blogs is that they have inspired me to write.

I've finished a couple of sorta-scary short stories, a 25K+ novelette (?) and have gotten several thousand words into two YA works and another horror novel (I think it's going to be novel length, at least).

At some point, I learned that I am a "pantser", as far as writing style goes, and that this explains my lack of ability to finish my longer-length projects. But I'm trying to do a little more outlining and maybe something will end up getting done. This horror novel was rolling for a while, but I sorta wrote myself into a corner, and I can't figure out how to solve the hero's dilemma and rescue the damsel.

I've also gone back and written some more on a couple of stories I started years ago, and rewrote one I probably started around the time I got a computer (early 90's, I think). There's a whole bunch of them.

One of these days I'm gonna finish up a whole bunch of stuff, and get it edited and have some covers done, then put it up on Amazon and other sites and see what shakes out. I've always written stuff that interests me, at least until it doesn't anymore. (If that makes any sense.) As an avid reader, I have always sort of assumed that if it interests me, it might just find an audience.

We'll see what happens.

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