One of my dreams and goals has been to be an author. To write. This comes from my love of books and reading.
I'm not a popular geek. While I pay attention to the names of the authors whose books I enjoy I don't dive in and learn all about them and their lives and birth dates and who their spouses are where they travel or what was their inspiration for this or that. Sure, I'll learn little bits here and there as I go along, but I'm in it for the stories that they write, not them.
My efforts to be a writer are usually stymied. I can sit for hours and focus on the computer screen and keyboard but I tend to get distracted by all the opportunities available at the computer. The Internet with its vast quantities of diversions calls and I get into it way too much.
So I've devised some different ways to capture my thoughts and get them into a format that others can consume. This blog is one of them. I also keep a journal of sorts, but it's very private and I hope that others might enjoy it after I'm gone. I also keep a gratitude log, though it has become hit and miss as I go along.
Not because I don't have anything to be grateful for! I have a lot to be grateful for and am blessed beyond what I could even imagine. I just sometimes don't make note of that thing that I'm grateful for because I said "thank you" about it yesterday and the day before and the day before that.
But that's not what I'm trying to talk about right now.
Writing is viewed by many as just one thing: publishing a book.
My wife published a book. It's self published, and I helped her publish it and make it available using Amazon's Kindle format. You can go and order a copy of her book and paper or e-book format on her website and on Amazon.
(https://www.amazon.com/Days-Preparation-Missions-Susan-Holly-ebook/dp/B004Q9TW4G/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=50+days+of+preparations+for+missions&qid=1675617043&sr=8-1)
But I've noticed that when she tells people that she's a published author and then she says she self-published they have this downcast face and frown that seems to indicate that they think she's not really an author. I disagree.
My hope is that with this blog people learn more from my experiences and mistakes and life and things that I'm trying to share and maybe be better people than me. And it satisfies my urge to be a published author, since when I press send for the post I become published worldwide (solar system-wide?) again and again and again.
That's what the Internet has done for me! It's allowed me to break through all of the barriers and be a published author. Woohoo!
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