Why I’m not posting as much

I feel I need to explain why basically I’ve not been blogging as I have in the past. Most of you probably know why, because–hey–you actually read my blog.

I started at the Art Institute of Fort Worth this month. I’m majoring in Web Design and Interactive Media. I’m four days into it, and I love it. My teachers are fantastic. They’re friendly. One of them even gave us her personal cell so we can call her, text her, or whatever when we need to.

But this means I have a full course load again, and I don’t have as much time for social media as I’d like. Come the fall, I’ll have two more courses at UNT for my English major. I’d considered giving that one up, but I’m in my senior year now, and I’ve just come too far to stop so close to the finish line.  I actually had to drop two courses from my full load at UNT to make time for AI’s courses which means my senior year will bleed into the summer sessions.

Between my Monsters™, school, writing, and this new endeavor I’m involved with, I just don’t have the time I need. So, posting will be semi-erratic. Of course, I made the resolution to post my progress each week, and to do Kaz Mahoney’s Summer Camp, and I will continue to do those because they force me to take a step back and actually make progress so I’m not completely humiliated every posting I don’t get things done.

Writing will take priority over every thing except school and Monsters™. This is supposed to be the year I get something accepted, submission-wise, and so far, I haven’t done much to get that done either.

In August, I’m attending a writing workshop at Armadillocon. I’m actually pretty stoked about it.I went to DFWCon back in April, which was pretty awesome, except that I saw my old boss from Books-a-Million there. So, DFWCon coordinators, anyway we could possibly use another bookstore? I have suggestions if needed.

So, what I have planned for the rest of the year:
I have two anthologies I want to write a story for. One story is outlined out, and the other I have a vague idea of what I want to do. I need to take care of those. I have my planning experiment, which is a little over a third done. I have two ideas simmering in the back of my brain, and four finished stories in various stages of revision, two of which are major rewrites I just didn’t have the stomach to finish.

With everything on my plate, I’m exhausted. When this month is over, I’ll have one more hectic month, then in mid-September, I’ll be able to relax a bit, kind of pick up where I left off and maybe recover my fried sanity.

Of course, that’s only the beginning. Come November, there will be NaNoWriMo to do, and I’m thinking of being an ML this year. So…30 days of complete and utter loss to writing a story while battling the reality of school, military, and family all while encouraging other fellow writers as well?

Yes, please.