Welcome to blOgtoberfest !

For a few weeks now, I have been wondering what would happen if I wrote or blogged every day for an entire month.

As of late, I find it extremely challenging to balance work, life, and the pursuit of a dream. I really wish I had the luxury of writing for 4-6 hours a day, but I simply don't at this juncture. Work gets in the way 3 days a week, and the rest is filled with taking family walks, enjoying every cup of coffee and making sure the numbers on the scale go down instead of up... things that in the grand scheme are more important.

That doesn't mean that I don't desire to hole up and lose myself in exploring the craft. I had a really amazing... no, surreal, experience on nitrous during a root canal several weeks ago. I have wanted to write about the experience since it happened, but got sidetracked, which, for me, means the idea dies. I have never found a good way to jot ideas down as they come to me. Note pads never seem to be in the right place, or I'm too busy to stop what I'm doing to write ideas down. Palm pilots seem like a good solution, but really, that's just an expensive note pad. All the same shortcomings apply.

For me, persistence is helpful. Having deadlines even more so. So, in celebration of October and my love for word play, I came up with the idea for blOgtoberfest... a month long celebration of my blog and my writing and any noteworthy random thought that might enter my head, and sharing the results with all of you, my most coveted critics and loyal fans.

I am really excited about taking the month-long journey of daily writing. I fear, as any writer does, that I will come up dry for ideas, and may need your help. If there's anything you're interested in and would like to start a formal discussion on, shoot me an email or respond in the form of a comment to the blog, and I guarantee we'll squeeze them all in. Let's have nothing be off limits.

By the way, for those of you with birthdays in October, consider my blog on your birthday my own personal tribute to you. I don't want to leave anybody out, so if your birthday is anything but October 4th, 12th, or 25th [those are taken, or will need to be amended] let me know and I will make special effort to include your tribute in the fun. The finale will be a special Halloween blog, an original All Hallows Eve tale written by yours truly.

Until tomorrow...