A Drop in an Ocean

This post is one among several hundreds of thousands of blogposts worldwide about New Year, and resolutions and 2012. Well, to add to the abundance of expression, here are my thoughts on the coming year - this year, I will set aside an hour a day for walking. I am fortunate to live in a part of the country where the winters are relatively mild and really there isn't much excuse for procrastrinating about exercise. On blog matters, I will write a post at least once a month, preferably on a weekend morning when the house is still quiet and I have the time to both savor my first cup of Darjeeling tea and to begin stringing my thoughts into words. 2012 I know will be a big year for me - I have completed a second novel, have submitted it to my overworked editor and am awaiting the verdict on its publishing fate. 'No' means that I pitch it to another publishing house, it might also mean looking seriously at self-publishing on Amazon. 'Yes' means I collect my weary thoughts and begin for the second time the process of reviewing and editing. It is a tedious process that drives both writer and editor nuts but is vital to the manuscript's transformation into limpid prose and handsome, bound copy. Whatever may be the editorial response, the completion of two book-length manuscripts means that I am a writer. I need to start thinking about a separate blog focused on the book/s. Or I may just go to Facebook.

That doesn't mean that this blog will head into any further neglect than necessary. I like having a space that is semi-anonymous and reserved for observations that are not strictly literary. After all, writers have lives outside books too. So, I intend to use this space for matters not directly related to my literary life, matters that I find take up a much larger area of my life than I had thought. Matters that this blog made evident to me over the last few years of its existence.