The Time approaches.

Well here I am again true to my word. For the time being my posts are on the Wednesday-Saturday schedule. Starting on august first though, I will be updating more regularly; for those who wish to watch my progress in my writing challenge. I cannot guarantee a post every day but you can expect more frequent posts then I have yet done.

Once the writing challenge is over I may return to the Wednesday-Saturday schedule depending on interest in the blog. So let me hear from people what they think.

Seeing as how this new project of writing 31 short stories in 31 days for charity is going to be a big part of my schedule for a month, it will also be a big part of this blog.

I’ve some worry about how to proceed with the project, having no home net access it’s likely to be done at least in part on public access computers and I may have to resort to notebooks and pens, in order to save on gas costs. The latter concern, over gas, being because the nearest net access that I know of is a fifteen minute drive from my apartment.

I’ve considered getting a laptop when I get some money soon, it would allow me to do more from a wider variety of places. My finances are rather restricted at this time however. I the mean time I’m keeping my eyes open for a typewriter at the local thrift shops. The typed text from that would be easier to transfer to a computer by scanning it with a text recognition program.

There is even something sort of romantic about the idea of writing stories with a typewriter, or pen and paper in distant places where I’m not connected to a computer, electricity or the internet. I imagine it’s like taking a restaurant chef out of the kitchen and to a fire pit or stone hearth to create a meal.

It puts us in touch with the roots of the craft, and leaves us with that raw feeling, no electric hum, or whirring of blenders and such. Just paper and pen, or fire and raw ingredients.
But at the same time I wonder if I’ll be disappointing anyone who would like to see some verification of the progress being made.

Ultimately my choices may be limited by what is available to me, and so I have to accept what comes.

In my next post which should go up by Wednesday I’ll be discuss in more detail the types of writing I’ll be doing and the end goals for them.
Until then, Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack