Due to drawing cartoons for Tom Johnson’s giveaway at idratherbewriting.com, a few days of vacation at a place called Moab, and all around busyness, I haven’t posted for a number of days. I’m sure you didn’t think I was dead or comatose.

Coming back from that kind of break reinforces to me that I need to write. Drawing cartoons is fun (and drawing captionless ones is an interesting exercise), but it’s second to my desire to write. In fact, in junior high school I decided I wanted to be a writer instead of my animator, and I announced this change at dinner. My parents have always been supportive of whatever career paths we decided we wanted to take. Later, when I was more established in the writing profession, my dad admitted that he had been a bit disappointed at my announcement; his feelings may have had something to do with the fact that artistic ability runs in the family on his side, and it’s a more demonstrable talent than writing. But he has still been supportive and interested in what I do.

One good thing about having taken a bit of a break is that ideas have accumulated. I’ve got some things to post about, another Tale started, and other ideas that I need to flesh out dramatically before I go much of anywhere with them. So that’s encouraging.

I have to say that this where the appeal is of creatively writing full time at home: I would have the bulk of each day to entertain new ideas, flesh them out, and then breathe life into them. But I do what I do and enjoy being a technical communicator as well, so that means I just need to make more out of my leisure writing time—and make additional time. And it also means I need to stop bringing the busyness upon myself.

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