If you attend the weekly chats, or read the logs later, you'll notice that Dave and I spend a lot of electrons cajoling each other to write more, write more regularly. For writing to be effective long term, I'm convinced it has to be a habit, not a sporadic activity. I'm sure there's someone out there who can dash off a novel over a weekend and have it sold to a publisher by Monday afternoon, but that person is not me. If I knock myself out, I can win at NaNoWriMo, but that still leaves me with an unfinished project. What I need, therefore, is to be in the habit of writing, and the NaNoWriMo kickstart approach hasn't worked for me so far.

At this moment, I'm being strongly supported by the quote on the side of this page by Agatha Christie, "Write even when you don’t want to, don’t much like what you are writing, and aren’t writing particularly well." I've been reluctant over the years to dilute my precious writing time writing things other than SF. Alas, the result hasn't been that I've written more SF, but that because I wouldn't write anything else, nothing got written. The truth is that in both my professional and private life, I need to be doing a lot more writing. So I am going to follow Agatha'a advice and write more, in any way that I possibly can.

And thus I come to blogging. For a bunch of reasons, mostly professional, I need to step up my blogging. Most importantly, though, I am hoping that by holding myself to a strict schedule of blog posts, I'll accomplish the kickstart I need to get back into a regular writing habit. Let's see how it goes. In addition to posting to this blog, I'll be posting to several others. My goal at this time is pretty nominal: to make at least one blog post per week. If you'd like to join me in this venture, post a comment below stating your goal and where your blog will be posted (I love to follow SFWW blogs).

Don't have a blog? Every SFWW member has a blog with this site. After logging in, select Content -> Create Content -> Blog Entry. Then just start writing! Your very first blog entry is about to be born.