Back to Blogging

I’ve been away from this for a long time. I was never here. I just toyed with it a bit earlier this year. For anyone who missed the news on the other sites where I took my first blogging steps, I resigned from the foreign service in July, returned to the United States in September, and have been using Virginia as my base while I shop this great land for my next home.

I’ve done a lot of other things in that time as well, mostly related to finding my bearings as a writer, i.e. novelist, essayist, and freelance corporate writer. When I left Tokyo in the summer, I assumed that I’d work as a freelance copywriter upon returning to the states. But a copywriter conference that I attended in October revealed that this corner of the advertising world doesn’t appeal to me.

So, I’ve turned my efforts to the writing that’s truly in my heart: fiction and creative nonfiction. In November I started writing a novel, which is something I’ve wanted to do since I was a boy. It’s exciting and it promises to keep me busy for a long time.

Mixed in with all this has been an interest in blogging, but blogging has stumped me ever since I first tried it in January. There are so many blogs on the web and they range over so many topics, that I’ve been uncertain how to use this tool in a unique and interesting way. But I’ve explored some ideas and I now look forward to seeing where this takes me as a writer.

If anyone happens across this page then please know that I’d enjoy hearing from you and that I welcome your comments.