So, you've got a notebook.  Great.  Now what?

It seems every creative person, or every person who fancies themselves as creative, has a notebook.  Mine happens to be a Moleskine, which are very popular, but yours may be something else.  It doesn't matter, really, what it is, because they all serve the same purpose.  To be filled with ideas for later development.  Is it?

IdeaNet

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Do you feel ideas slipping away?

Yeah, you know which three little words I mean.

False starts are part of life.

Certainly, I've had a lot of projects that started with promise, but which never seemed to get completed. Others may have been started several times, or re-concieved mid-launch, such as this very website. Most of my half-baked, orphan works have either never seen the light of day or been safely scrubbed from the great digital subconscious before anyone else became aware of them, thankfully. But, there's a market that celebrates that bastard child of the creative process. An e-zine called The Orphan.

“You have 30 days left to live. Use them wisely”

That was the text message that came up on my phone.  When I checked the details on the message, it showed as being sent from "unknown sender".  But, my cell is an unlisted number that's on the "do-not-call" list to keep advertisers away and, frankly, is one of my most closely guarded secrets.  There aren't many people I've given it to and they know not to pass it along.  In my business, it pays to stay private.

The road to hell, they say, is paved with good intentions.

"Shall we play a game?"

No, not me.

So, there's a guy over at The Power Factory, Jonathan Munn, who's declared a goal of writing one story per week for a year.  He's writing fantasy and science-fiction for the young adult market, a term I hate, by the way.  He's off to a good start so far.  These are free, incidentally.   I love this idea, just because I love people sharing their creativity for the sake of sharing it.

All or nothing thinking is what drives me and ruins me at the same time.

Seven months ago, to the day, I made the first post on this blog. My goal was to create an entire website dedicated to my personal creativity and the creative output I produced. I wanted it to be the perfect site, have the perfect begining. That paralyzed me...

Welcome to the blog portion of JKHoffman.com  This blog, and website, was installed and configured on December 12, 2008, which is my birthday.  It seemed a fitting day to start this project.  Being in the early stages, my intention is to let it languish in obscurity until I can build some nice, juicy content here.