Thirteen years ago today, I posted this. (Yep, The Juggling Writer is officially a teenager today!) Thirteen is my favorite number. When I heard it was “unlucky,” I decided to take it on ’cause even as a kid, I had my thoughts about superstitions. So I like that this is year thirteen… A Sparse Year… […]

Eleven years ago today I started The Juggling Writer. It’s changed quite a bit since this first entry. I don’t post as much as I once did. Gone are lists and things that were more, well…bloggy. It’s now a place where I share whatever comes to me (when I have time to post). The Goal […]

Ten years ago… I was a little more than three months shy of being laid off from my first real technical writing job [the week before Christmas]. I was slowly coming out of a depression that almost ended the things most important to me — including me. I was working on the most “me” novel […]

Eight years ago today, I posted the first entry on The Juggling Writer. I still believe in the points mentioned in that entry; in fact, I will go into my day job today and mention a juggling analogy as I discuss how I’ve taken on a laid-off writer’s duties in the past week. (The point: […]

Seven years ago, I was working for an aviation consulting firm. I was regularly traveling to Oregon, helping a client take over my job. (I also traveled to Washington and Georgia (for two months) with that job.) On December 17th of that year — shortly before Christmas — I was laid off after the company […]

With the biggest software release ever at the day job, writing, Not About Lumberjacks, Men in Gorilla Suits, and preparing for a talk about podcasting fiction for a local podcast group, I’ve been a bit busy. Things are beginning to slow, though. I’ll get back to The Juggling Writer soon — including an interview with […]

I’m always fascinated by the way writing projects change with time. For me, only short stories usually turn out as originally perceived. Novels change radically over the course of writing. Entire story lines and characters are dropped; in some cases, you see a better way of presenting everything, and early drafts don’t resemble the final […]

I started The Juggling Writer almost six years ago. There have been times I’ve written an entry a day for a complete month. Other times, especially in the last year or so, updates are not as frequent — sometimes not even a single entry in a month. My goal was three updates a week in […]