Back to School

I've got new notebooks, new folders, new pens and pencils and now it's time to settle down with my thoughts and get back to the work of writing.

Here's the things I'm working on:

Novel: I've got a couple in the works and I may put aside the one I've been working on for the last couple years and take up another that has been haunting my thoughts.

Essays: I'm very close to finishing the book of essays and poetry I'm writing about the Western National Parks. Don't quite know what I'm going to do with it when it's done - probably self-publish, but I need to have a plan for that.

Autumn Stories: I have a notebook I haul out every fall full of work that is about autumn and Halloween.  I have a short story I have added to for the last two years and this fall I'm going to finish it up.

Writers' Studio: I organize the writing programs at the Box Factory for the Arts and in the fall we get started again. I need to work on that programming too.

So, lots to do. I've been thinking I need to find a way to make all this work pay a little something so I don't have to go looking for a job that doesn't involve creative writing. After a lifetime of trying to make ends meet - I would like to give this a go.

I'll try my best anyway!