Even when I’m not blogging here, I’m still blogging. I blog for work. I blog for non-work. I blog.
And I want to do more than blogging.
The thing about living in Southern California is that you’re always one or two people away from somebody who works in the entertainment industry. A friend invited my family to join his family and friends for Thanksgiving. There I met people who work in the industry. If I ever write a novel, one of these new acquaintances would be the go-to person to turn the novel into a screenplay.
A young woman who attends my church just signed on with Columbia Records (beautiful voice), and her success story is compelling. In fact, she’ll be opening for Grammy-nominated singer Adele (whose recent “Saturday Night Live” appearance reportedly blew people away) at some point during her tour. My niece’s little friend attends the same church as Taylor Lautner, the kid who plays Jacob Black in Twilight. (As “Twilight” fans know, his character will have a prominent role in subsequent movies as vampire Edward Cullen’s competition.) He gave my niece an autographed photo for her 10th birthday last week. “Delighted” is too mild to describe her reaction.
And on and on. I confess: it is difficult not to get caught up.
When I’m not doing paying work, I’m developing and pitching story ideas to editors. Unfortunately, I don’t have any recent off-blog work to show you because competition is stiff, especially with laid-off journalists competing for the same freelance assignments.
(My story ideas tend to be faith-based. For instance, I’m very interested in getting people to open up and go on record about their faith. See Hanson and Rissi Palmer.)
And – I shouldn’t mention this because it hasn’t happened yet and may not happen at all and I’ll be embarrassed if it doesn’t happen esp. because I’ve already mentioned it on the blog – I’m a bit nervous. I’m waiting for a publishing committee to decide yay or nay on a book idea. If this particular house says no, I’ll move on. But still…AHHHHHHHHHH! The wait is maddening.
So that’s why I haven’t updated LBC often. Pitching and plotting like crazy. Just my “luck,” though. I had to wait until a bunch of experienced professional writers were laid off to get serious about being a writer. 
