Whirl

Background:

I’ve been toying with the idea of writing for a while.  This blog is a very, very small step in that direction.  Here’s the plan:

  Open up my blog to a wider audience.

• Benefit for your honest advice and criticism (if a story sucks, please tell me why).
• Build enough quality work to gain entrance it into a Master of Fine Arts program for creative writing.
• Complete the degree and maybe get published in a few journals.
• Retire from this career at sixty five to a small pittance (I believe in Social Security…our leaders know what’s best for us!)
• Start living the writer’s life:  unstable income; spam hash for dinner; and a constant barrage of rejection.

So now comes the harder step.  Throwing the thing open to a wider audience and hoping it sticks.  Please help me by leaving your comments and feedback.  And if you like a story, please tell your friends and send them the link.  Links into a blog are its lifeblood.

This is definitely a work in progress. I will return to various essays from time to time and continue to polish them.  So thanks in advance for your feedback

Here are a few final words of caution.  I use frank and often vivid language—it isn’t pornographic, but it is about real life, and most real people I know drop the f-word now and then. 

Subject Guidelines:

• This blog will be about damn near anything. 
• The language will not stop at PG13.
•  Politics will tend to run liberal/libertarian on social issues to moderate on economic issues. 
• The post will be longer—more essay than blog.   
• Comments are moderated. 

More About Me: 

• Husband 
• Father
• Grandfather
• Geek  
• Author  

Thanks for reading,

Rodney Gleghorn