A quick update

Posted on May 12, 2008
Filed Under Writing |

I want to apologize to everyone who might be following my progress on Heir of Fire: Book 2 of the Sundered Breath trilogy. Progress is moving along, but it is very slow. Real Life has sidetracked me as I work to move from one career to another in the professional life.

For the last 17 years or so, I’ve been in the Civil Engineering field. Not the engineer himself, but the person who draws up the plans and does preliminary design on most of the project. As time has drawn on I’ve come to realize a few things. First, is that there is really no place left for me to go in this field. I’m at the top position in the firm, and there are no more rungs up the ladder to work toward. It has made working in the field a bit monotonous and very un-inspiring.

The second thing is that I want to do work that I have a passion for. While I would love for that to be writing, I’m not at a place in my career where I can even begin to contemplate that. Heck. Most writers have other jobs that support them. I know that someday I will get to that point, but I don’t want to survive the day job and have the life sucked out of me until that happens.

So I’ve been doing freelance web-design for the last couple of years, working it until a point where both my skill and my contacts will support me. Well, the good news is that I’m getting close. I’m even in talks with another entrepreneur to become a partner in his design company. I’m thrilled by this. It would give me a job I can enjoy, as well as free up time at nights to dive back head first into my writing, as well as a couple of side projects that I’m looking forward to getting completed, including an e-course on writing powerful fiction. (More on that later when we’re a bit closer).

I have not forgotten you. I have not dropped the series. It is still a world I want to see more of. Still a place that fills me with passion and wonder as I explore the world from the eyes of the “children” from the series. You all have been on my mind lately. I keep telling myself I should post here more, but a huge freelance project has had me tied up (as well as a smaller site or two taking up time that I should be working on that big project.)

I will be back here more often. I miss you all too much not to be.

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