This week marks a hopeful return to regular posting at Catsignal. At minimum, there will be a new haiku and a new Quotable each Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. I hope also to post weekly about something happening in the writing world, an interesting piece someone else has written, or something I’ve been thinking about concerning writing. I hope you’ll join me again.
Tag: posting
One year later…
Hello, again.
I never thought I’d let Catsignal go so long without a single post. I love what I’ve done here. I love writing things and sharing them with you. But my chronic fatigue syndrome and migraines have kept me mentally and physically benched. And on that front, it has been a long, bad year.
I have, however, finally written another story. It’s one I had started a couple of years ago and never quite knew where to take it past a certain point. I have solved that problem, and the story – “Precarious Balance” – follows this note.
This by no means signals a return to regular posting. But it does, at least, tell me that I can still do this. I can still create. I can still put one word after another in what some may find an entertaining fashion. Even if I have to work on it piecemeal on the rare days when I am awake enough to concentrate, I can still do this. And that means the world to me.
I hope you enjoy the story. I also hope you don’t give up on Catsignal. I haven’t.
Pen to Paper: The Advantages of Posting Your Work Online
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
– Samuel Johnson
Dr. Johnson might scoff at this blog and the innumerable other blogs where writers write for the sheer joy of doing so. Not getting paid for writing is one reason people have told me not to do this blog. “Send those stories to magazines and make money off of them.” Reasonable advice, of course, but harkening back to Monday’s Pen to Paper, the traditional publishing options are fading away in the face of the digital revolution.
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