Starting somewhere

This particular blog is not advertised in my on-line presence among ephemera Internet conversation (where I tend to beat the drum of liberty).

Here I have stored a few story fragments for that "future day when I take writing seriously." For many reasons, I have allowed myself to remain imprisoned in the fear of rejection and have thus used every excuse to not get to work on the 1,001 novels in my head that should entertain everyone. Fear has prevented me from persisting in the face of allowing survival to dictate the calender.

To surmount the rejection I have decided to publish the early materials of my late in life attempt to be a writer here on this fairly anonymous blog.

To surmount the calender, I am trying a three-fold approach: Spiritual, Intellectual, Organizational. Spiritual devotion is currently getting some impetus from our lovely Advent season for the Year of our Lord, 2016-17. {And yes that's A.D.} Also on the spiritual development front, my wife and I are beginning a study on the book of Job (from the Bible, q.v.).
Intellectual development is on-going, but my reading has dropped off because of my psychological difficulties in dealing with the tragedies in my personal life (currently trying to medicate it away with the distractions of luxury); renewing my focus to get back to reading and study.
Organizational development is only at the beginning for me, since I am trying to overcome mild hoarding tendencies combined with natural laziness and low-level anti-chaos training inadequacy (this has been compensated for heretofore by my wife's exceptional organizational abilities). The goal in considering organizational reality is to allow me to become more efficient with the use of my remaining time on this Earth. This blog will, however, be mostly concerned with examples from my lame early attempts at trying to be a story-teller, but as I come across techniques, articles, practices, etc. that help me to focus in on my writing, I will gladly share them.

So now to work. To prepare and to begin the rough drafts, and to avoid insidious distraction, I will have to work off-line.

Peace-out.