All Things Considered…

Alright, now.  I know it’s been FOREVER since I’ve last posted.  I mistakenly thought that once the kids went to school I’d have more time to spend blogging and working and otherwise writing.  NOT TRUE, says I.  I was WAAAAAAAYYYY off on that assumption.  I’ve worked, but more of it has been 1) of the research kind - the smoke and mirrors of writing that no one sees – and 2) of the brainstorming kind – the kind that no one cares about.  I’ve always been prone to this sort of verbally loose kind of thinking, you know, where something comes in to your head and you have to get it out before it spends too much time bouncing around.  If I’d spend more time writing it down and less time discussing it, analyzing it: maybe I’d be published by now!

But alas, I’ve come up with a new project and I’m going in headlong.  I don’t want to journalize too much about the actual meat and potatoes of it for obvious reasons, but I would like to take time to work out my approach to it here, on this blog.  Going through it one step at a time here, cliche though it may be, would probably serve me well.  If nothing else, I will be able to see at any given point where this idea/plan I have will have succeeded or where it will have taken a turn for the doomed. 

For now, I’m off to research my new idea.  It will be a guide of sorts, a bit niche-y, an idiot-proof tool for a certain brand of consumers underserved to the particular area I will be approaching.  I have a professional and educational background useful in this endeavor, and a unique understanding of the line at which the layman and the experienced professional part ways on the subject matter: beaurocracy seems to preclude the layman from crossing it.  My job will be to smooth out the translation for the layman, and to make him confident enough to cross the line. 

I’m working out the format and the full scope of the information that needs to be covered.  I’ve begun my research, begun to gather relevent website references for inclusion in the ms, and begun visualizing my first signing. 

A girl can dream.

So, off I go to work.  Wish me luck!