Beep Beep, Here I Come

Welcome. Against my better judgment, I've begun a writer blog. Lucky you.

Experts say if you want to be taken seriously as a writer, you have to have a blog. Frankly, I think the best way to be taken seriously as a writer is to write something good. If your writing is dull, then I don't care how many comments you get on your latest love letter to your muse, your writing is still dull.

I also fret that starting a writer blog will leave less time available for — you guessed it — actual writing. In fact, I worry that by starting a writing blog, not only am I compromising my own writing time, but the writing time of other writers who should be writing instead of reading my blog. It's a vicious blog-write-read-write-blog circle and it will lead to tears, I know it.

So why am I blogging then? Certainly not so I can take my writing more seriously. I already take it seriously enough, which might surprise anyone who's actually read my work. My characters are often odd and eccentric, if not hopelessly loony, and my situations stretch credibility.

Instead, this blog is about organization. Organizing my projects, my priorities and my thoughts. Right now I'm juggling half-a-dozen writing projects in various stages of completion. I don't have problems coming up with ideas — my brain's lousy with ideas — but turning those ideas into completed works.

But this brings me perilously close to writing a Serious Writer Blog, and the world doesn't need another one of those. Next thing you know, I'll be debating fonts and who wants that?

Cue the Killer Robots. The blog's name comes from my first (and still unpublished) novel, a science fiction story. Every time I was stuck in the plot, I added a few killer robots to shake things up — with odd results. But I maintain that every story needs a killer robot. Life is hard enough without taking your writing seriously.