My Encore Career as a Writer
After 20 years in the trenches of software development, followed by 27 years as an Academic, I will be retiring at the end of this year to pursue a new career as a writer. Writing has always been one of my guilty pleasures. I write almost every day and have written but not published stories, novels and essays in addition to over four dozen scholarly papers and over 150 book and article reviews that were were published. Now, I get to write for fun and will publish for fun as well on Amazon's Kindle and Createspace platform. My first book will be a collection of short essays called "The Meaning of Life" which will explain, in simple terms, what we mean by the 'meaning of life' and how one can find more meaning if they are in search of it. I am writing short, easily readable, essays that should be accessible to anyone. It is my goal to be accessible rather than scholarly. Each essay is about one hand written page or about 300 words. I am hoping that you will read the essays one at a time, find something worth thinking about, and then come back for the next when you are done ruminating.(It may have been better to use the word 'thinking' rather than 'ruminating' but my muse often has the last word on word choices. I try my best to know my place.)
I set up this blog as supplement to My Facebook Page because Facebook posts should be kept short and some topics may take a little more space. When that happens, I can put a teaser blurb on Facebook with a link to this blog. We will see how well that works.
What I plan to write here are tidbits about the writing process. That part will be of interesting to anyone who is thinking about self publishing or someone who is self publishing and wants a few new ideas.
In addition, I will post bits and pieces of things that I find interesting whether it is related to writing or not. I am always running into things that I find interesting, and, if you have an insatiable curiosity as I do, you may want to browse occasionally to see what I have stumbled on to.
