Rolling forward

And life keeps rolling on. Now that I have some free time back I feel ready to start writing again. I’m not sure in what order I shall get involved. First there’s Fat Habits, my finished novel. I have to start shopping it around— maybe even give it one more read through with my editing eye. Then there’s Gone which is sort of half way through a first draft. Journal entries. I like those— quick easy and satisfying. Then there’s my mom’s letters she wrote to her mother (my grandmother, Doris Goodwin Currier) and most of these letters are about myself, Dave and Dawn when we were children; also some chronicle where she was in life— her fight against overweight and the financial burdens of raising three children on modest incomes. I began transcribing her letters on to Word and because I was just dictating them, I purchased the software Dragon that allowed me to type my voice commands. I was using it at the time I stopped transcribing the letters but there was still a lot to learn. I forget why I stopped. I want to get all my old journals (I have a fair amount done already) on to Word and backed up on to a hard drive as well as backed up on my blog page should something ever happen to the drive.

On the road in Quebec, 1995

 I’d like to find a better way to list all my stuff on the blog, index them better. As is, it just lists them in the order they were published. I’d like to format them into something, maybe by genre. The blog itself is not very user friendly. It is online so I can access it or if something ever happened to me, someone else could. Well, these are my options to mull over. On a side note, I don’t know how to block apps from my settings— porn apps and Tinder ads; it only started happening about a month ago. Despite the user non-friendliness of the web page, my writing remains intact. Anyway, stuff to ponder as I move forward— always forward.