Since No Sensible People came out I've been running. It takes time to update profiles, go to classes , sign up to new social networks, read and review books, set up a website and STILL find time to do some new writing. Oh, and I have to spend another 40 or so hours at The Day Job so I can support myself and my family. Sometimes I think, "A Publicist, A Publicist, my Kingdom for a Publicist!" But I'd still be busy, and since my revenue for writing is very limited right now, I can hardly afford to hire one.



But that's okay. I like having the mindset that my writing is my second job. I think I'm spending 20-25 hours a week on everything. No wonder why I'm exhausted. Most small businesses take a while to show any real profit. My writing will probably never show any big profit. It's geared toward self expression, not money. And even thought it is hard work, I am enjoying all that I am learning. Maybe I will even be able to apply these skills to other things. Who knows? I have gotten a little of the new book written this week, and a draft of a poem (which I left on the bus.) Iwill work more on it sometime tonight.



What is really exciting is that I get to read at The Loft in Minneapolis on Tuesday night at the student reading because I am taking a class. I only get five minutes, which will mean 3-4 pages of the book at most, but it is good exposure nonetheless. It's also good that I am doing my first reading there, since that is where the book began.



I worked just a few blocks from The Loft at the time, and I had actually gone there after work to read a book. I don't remember what I was reading, but the original narrator, Jennie Halifax started talking to me. I didn't have a notebook on me, so I had to run to the Ruminator Bookstore (a wonderful Indie bookstore now closed :( ) to buy a new notebook. I think I wrote 3-4 pages. Online diary sites were popular at the time, so as discipline I signed up on one as Jennie. That was near the end of 2001. I finished that first draft in July 2002. Now close to seven years, and may revisions, later I am finally reading from the book in the place it started.