What? It's only been six days.

I know I said I was going to come right back to this, but clearly I didn't. That's okay. We all need hard to attain goals or we won't strive hard enough. (wow, really spun the narrative on that one to make me look good) After missing two years, six days is almost great. (said no one ever who has been waiting 5 extra days for something that was supposed to happen in 1 day)

That's not even the full depth of the crappiness of this post. I'm writing on this thing instead of starting my new book. I have a fully formed outline and direction and everything I need to go ahead and write my first novel, but instead, I am procrastinating by writing this. It makes my ridiculous justification of not writing earlier that much worse, huh?

Anyway, I was in the middle of letting you all (all? who are we kidding, nobody is reading this) know what I have been doing over the last two years.

There's really not much more to tell. I got a freelance job covering sports for a small newspaper in Niwot, Colorado. It is called the Left Hand Valley Courier and is a free weekly. I get paid per word to go to Niwot High School sporting events around the state and write about them. I probably get paid less than a dollar an hour based on how much time it requires to get a small article done. It is so little, I have flirted with just not even billing them because it is an annoyance. Of course, then I think about how ridiculous that is and send them a bill anyway.

I guess it is time to get to wrapping this thing up. I need to go pick the boys up from school soon. The biggest thing I've got going (if you can call it "going" after all this procrastination) is that I am writing a novel. It's not "Gatsby," but I'm really not going for that. I'm writing a tween novel about kids battling the classic horror monsters like vampires, swamp creatures, werewolves, zombies etc. I think I have finally cracked the code on how to get it started. It will be a series of books and if all goes well, I will sell it to a movie studio so they can hack the thing to pieces. As a freelance/technical writing background person, I'm not into it for the art. I just want to get paid. Look for my stories to hit the theaters in 2030, haha. Hopefully I'll write another blog post before then.