The challenge of blogging

Since I’m not very good at this blogging business, I Googled ‘author blog’ to get an idea on what to blog.

I found many lists. One suggestion was to talk about your last vacation. My last real vacation was nine years ago. Usually I just like to take a week off from work and spend my time writing and playing games on my various platforms. Usually I time these breaks with the acquisition of a new video game.

Another suggestion was to spotlight other writers. But screw that-what have they done for me? Mostly they are out-writing me anyway.

What did you do last weekend (be sure to include photos) was another gem. Well, I could post pictures of an office chair and my recliner, because last weekend I wrote about 2400 words of Dream Three, and pushed deeper along the Brotherhood of Steel path in Fallout 4. Exciting, right? Oh, and I chased a raccoon (not Tripod) off my patio for scaring the outside cats. He tried to stare me down, first. The weekend before that I had to respond to the scene of a shooting at 2am, which wasn’t all that interesting as there wasn’t much to it (other than a corpse and some drunks), and at my pay grade I mostly just walk around and look at stuff.

Still, people keep visiting my site, and I feel that I owe them more material.

One of the questions was ‘what is your mission as an author’. I never considered myself as having a mission; I write because I enjoy writing. If I have a mission I would say that it is to have people enjoy my writing. That isn’t much of a mission, but I have no burning desire to convert people to my views. Yes, I write a great deal about weapons and firearms in particular, but that is because I like weapons in general and firearms in particular. Most of my protagonists are military veterans because I am a military veteran and I try to write what I know.

I will try to be a better blogger, but don’t get your hopes too high.