My Very Own Green Light

I come back online to post for the first time in a few weeks tonight with a bit of a heavy heart and head.  Unlike some times in the past when work or the book I was working on or some other random nonsense has gotten in the way of publishing my thoughts to the blog with the frequency I would have liked, this two plus week period of silence from me has been self imposed.  Whether for good or bad this blog, since its inception, has been both a place for me to voice my opinions and has grown into a place where my fan base (such that it is) and I can interact and the like.  The problem with this comes in when I feel like what I have to say will be alienating to a good deal of people.  Hey, the simple fact of the matter here folks is that I do continue to write novels and want to be able to sell a few more here and there before I'm done.  

Hence the slavish adherence to the ol' audience principle.

Over the last few weeks, however, something's been building up inside of me.  Actually quite literally building up: I've discovered that out of nowhere I know get to deal with the same acid reflux issues my mother does and its not made me a happy person by any extent.  I started trying to figure out what has spawned this malady and it occurred to me that even though my life has been rolling forward with a massive positive momentum over the last five months, I'm not doing the one thing I've done for over year and a half now: I'm not speaking my mind and sharing my thoughts through the blog.  

Then I remind myself of the audience thing once again.

Then I chug some more pink stuff and go back to work.

Then I start thinking again.  There's a lot to say.

And we're back to the audience rule.

And then the pink stuff.

For those of you familiar with Fitzgerald's Gatsby, you'll understand the green light reference I made in the title.  Since quite literally the end of March I believe my blog has been sitting out there in the distance, blinking its little ass off at me in Morse Code.

Alright already, I get the message you goddamned malfunctioning party favor from Ryan Reynold's Green Latern premiere party!  I'll write already... just knock it off!

And so, with that being said, kids I need to unload a bit so you might as well get comfortable.

In the interest of your time, not mine, I'm going to break this up by topics over the next few days. I hope you enjoy what I have to say.  Hell, hopefully you agree with me, but if not that's just as cool as well.  

The fact is folks that apparently I just can't stay shut up any longer.

And here... we... (thanks for the ever so applicable quote Heath Ledger) go!