To Blog or Not to Blog...To Write or Not to Write. It's Hard Doing Both!

I haven't been blogging in over a week because I've been using all my spare time to write my novel. Because of this I'm feeling guilty about not blogging regularly. I can certainly find things in my life to feel guilty about but this one is making me feel more guilty than most. So I'm going to try blogging every other night about my novel. I'll see if that works.

I'm progressing into chapter two without having finished chapter one. But chapter one is almost complete and I pretty much know how it ends so I'm not messing anything up by beginning chapter two early. At least I hope I'm not.

Not much else to write about my novel tonight so here are a couple of good links. Are you looking for some good online writing classes? Like anything else check this out to your satisfaction before progressing but I recommend (at least taking a look at) Gotham Writer's Workshop online, http://www.writerclasses.com/. Writer's Digest magazine also presents online writing instruction at http://www.writersonlineworkshops.com/retail/ . Again I say check these out thoroughly and to the point that you're comfortable before paying for instruction. In fact that's probably a good rule for anything in life, i.e.: use someone else's recommendation as a starting point and then do your own research. I'm planning on taking classes from both later this year when I have a little more discretionary income.

Book Review Links:

Here's an interesting piece about Mark Twain from the USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2010-04-20-twain20_CV_N.htm

And here's a link to a review of Jennimae & James: A Memoir in Black and White. It's an interesting story of the relationship between a white mathematician and his uneducated African-American housekeeper.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2010-04-22-newmanrev22_ST_N.htm

Finally, do you like history? Think Teddy Roosevelt played an interesting role in American history? Then read The War Lovers by Evan Thomas...and the New York Times book review I've linked to about Teddy Roosevelt. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/books/review/Steel-t.html?ref=books

Till next time.

Bill Browning. Sunday, 25 April 2010.