Lifting the veil of secrecy

When I started my wordpress blogs, this was intended to be a private blog.  It was never meant to be public, because it was never a blog.  It was going to be my online hiding spot for a book I started called 13 Shots.  Writing it all at wordpress would mean I could work on the book at work, at home, or anywhere else I found myself.  13 Shots is a story that requires a certain frame of mind.  When I started the book I was working through bouts of sadness and depression.  I had an epiphany that my sadness was a gift that would help me write something that could speak to people.  The problem I found was that writing blogs, stories, or whatever else made me really happy.  A few weeks into working on the book, I just wasn’t sad anymore, so I stopped working on it.  I put all my writing energy into Cliffhanger Theater(a daily updated story that ends on 2/28) and the rest of my energy into figuring out how to become a father (the wife and I had a baby boy last September).

One other reason I stopped working on 13 Shots?  I read what I had written, and it sucked.  There is much more bad writing to get out of my system before I commit to 13 Shots.  Cliffhanger Theater took care of a good chunk of that, and then I started 52 Cards to challenge myself to do different things.  The blog I was going to use for random writing and such has turned into my music blog, so I decided to un-private this blog.  The old 13 Shots posts are now private, but maybe I’ll post a few things once I start posting here more often.  I have another book idea I’m about to start, so I might post a few bits about that here as well.

So…yeah.  That’s all for now.

~ by Russ on February 24, 2009.