Why So Silent?

I've been a bit quiet lately, not because I haven't had thoughts on the current events (Syria, anyone? What exactly does the United Nations do?) but because I can only write so many words and I've chosen to write them elsewhere. To be more precise, I've been writing fiction.

With the rise of self-publishing, I finally got myself in gear and tried to put some of the things I've been thinking about down on paper (or rather pixels), and then getting them into a state where I was willing to send them out into the world.

Having read a lot of information on those who had been successful publishing their own work, I first started with a novel in a popular genre: thriller.

I haven't finished rewriting that yet (still on the first draft), but I also read a post by Joe Konrath about writing short stories because they can be used in multiple ways to 'better monetize your intellectual property.' Having just written something that was 70,000 words, I figured I could bash out five stories of 5,000 words each in fairly short order.

Well the shortest ended up at 8,500 words, and the longest is over 20,000. I'd finished all five by October 2012 and I've been rewriting them ever since. The first one was released in May this year. It's called Riders of the Wind. I have three out to date, with another hopefully in September. You can find all of them on my author website or my Amazon author page.

Still plenty more to do, but I will get back to writing here more often as well, so the world can ignore my views on it once again.