The Year of the Bear

As some of you may have heard, I'm self-publishing my fantasy novel this year - in a couple months, actually (website and all that jazz coming soon). It's been an incredible month, this past April, so let me tell you a bit about it.

Can't take credit for that one; I heard it first from Mr. Dylan, then Mr. Collins. But it's still accurate. You may have noticed I missed a WriProSun. Now that semester has started, and projects are due Sunday night, I'm feeling some pressure to change up the format of my blog schedule. So, from this hour henceforth (bonus points if you know THAT quote), WoWWed will still be Wednesday, but I will now be posting Class Saturday - which will be from a Writing Class prompt from the Writer's Devotional - on Saturday. I may have to dig into the archives a little bit this week, as the class is to make a one-panel comic strip about getting your hair cut. I may  write something funny about haircuts and barbers, but more likely I'll pull one from an earlier week. Thanks for following along, though! See you Wednesday!

I watched Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit with my fiancée recently – what a great movie. Regardless of what they did with extra plotlines and manufactured love interests, it’s still a stirring story. I guess, as Father Mulcahy mentioned in an episode of M*A*S*H* : “You can’t miss when you’ve got great material." A week or so after watching the trilogy, I was facing down a 3-hour mountain bike race that I didn’t feel like I had adequately trained for – at all. I was ready to just not go to the race. Then I remembered The Hobbit.

Hey all, what a week! Sorry I've been gone so long, and I've got a bit of a back-log to fill you in on, so here goes! All the Ups smashed into one. Because bears can do that.

Anytime you set out to do something, set some goal, you can almost count like clockwork on things going wrong – maybe not even going wrong but just not going as smoothly as you imagined it in your head. You may have even geared up for it, planned it out weeks in advance, done all the calculations, given yourself extra time and resources, had it all sewn up and all but in the bag. And then you began to actually execute on that plan, started using your gear and motivation and time and resources, and a day, a week, a month in, said oh, man… It happens – even to bears.