I have forthcoming articles in The Writer, Entrepreneur, Pacific Sun, and others. I keep forgetting to mention them on here.

Writing-wise I am in great spirits. I’m on draft 23 of my novel. That number is misleading, however, because Word keeps fighting with my Linux operating system, forcing me to continually save new drafts of my novel to keep it from disappearing. In reality I’m probably on draft 10 or so.

I am reading four books right now. I don’t know how that happened. I’m reading The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson, A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, and Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence. I’ll probably finish The Suicide Club first because it is the shortest, then A Poetry Handbook because it is the most interesting, then David Copperfield because it is making me feel guilty. (I did get a long way into that one–I’m on chapter 35. It would be a shame not to soldier on through.)

Other than that, I’m polishing some short fiction to send out and pitching new article ideas. I spend a tremendous amount of time on this computer, as those who follow my Facebook account can attest. I really should figure out some viable form of exercise …