Now there's the computer and the internet. In the digital age, anyone with a laptop, a wi-fi card, and a place to sit at Starbucks can put material into cyberspace. The digital revolution means everyone's an author, every day is National Writing Day. And this sudden democratizing of the writing process generates its own set of complaints:

* it's wrong to give so many people access to authorship -- after all, most people won't be very good at, and some people are going to write things that we don't agree with

* computers make writing too easy -- something so important should only come with effort -- no pain, no gain -- maybe we should increase the entrance fees?

* we need to control, license, censor what's on the 'net: after all, the web is full of lies, misinformation, nonsense, pornography, fraud, Nigerian money scams, and hate, not to mention all those pictures of little cats

But despite the complaints, writers everywhere are grabbing their keyboards...

The beauty of it is that are able to read about objections such as Socrates had.

I've sign up for National Novel Writing Month, so I can kick start my third novel.

50K words in 30 days.

Are you up to it?

I'm working on a screen play right now. It's good to have an outlet for the creativity in oneself.

Writer's write. Still hammering the last bits of my first book, getting it ready for queriying, then I have to tackle the second (editing and transcribing, the problem with writing in notebooks) and then, sometime next year I will finish my NaNo novel.

Joyful at times, stressful thrice over yet well worth the effort.

I smell a best selling novel and a number one movie Don't forget your friends on clipmarks

My youngest was just got some of her work published.

I better get that autographed Rat

Well, I'm still waiting for someone to give me their input....

(Taps the floor with his foot)

Still waiting....

Waiting some more....

Ahem....



(Better believe it hon, you will get it autographed! )

Better believe it hon, you will get it autographed! )

not to mention all those pictures of little cats