Well, first and foremost, I’ll admit, I’m blogging because it’s the hip thing to do, especially when you have your own website layout and URL to throw it on.  Second, it is something to fill up the site between posting the short fiction, which was really what the site was about from the get go.  It also fleshes out my web presence, which apparently is a big thing for writers to do now-a-days.

But even then, I could blog about anything, be it baseball or gardening.  No reason I have to hammer at the old “what is it to write” stuff.  I mean, I hardly doubt I have said a single original thing in this blog, even to me.  A lot of the topics I’ve thus covered were things I already kind of knew or felt, and I’ve just been blogging to blog.  Part of the reason for that, though, is the snail’s pace that writing and publishing are.  I mean, if I was blogging about my quest to become a published author, I would put up a post every couple months along the lines of “Got a rejection” or “sent out another manuscript.”  I feel like I should post up more than that, and something at least marginally more entertaining to both you the reader and myself.

Thus, meta-writing.  Do I even really care if anyone is reading this blog?  Not overly, truth told.  I mean, if an editor reads it and likes it, woo!  But on the average, this, I am coming to feel, is more for me.  Not a diary, per se, but a place to just air the laundry.  The Internet is the world’s soapbox, so I’m taking my turn, and all that.

Anyway, Friday’s blog is going to be about what a book signing/launch party are like.  Oddly, I’ve never really attended one for SFF that was just that.  Anytime I see an author signing books is usually at a convention or some such.  So, new experience for me!  Yay!  See “all y’all” then.

RichardFife.com is my corner of the Internet where I can both blog about whatever, but with a general focus on life through a lens of writing, and also where I can self web-publish some short fiction.

Now, here is the dilemma I face is that if I web-publish a short story, I basically say “there is a slim to nil chance I will ever be paid for this.” Well, yeah, I do. And while I am still going to write some short fiction that is going to be sent out on the rat race, I am going to be using this website as a means to force myself into the “craftsmanship” of writing. That is to say, to get into the habit of meeting writing deadlines since I have yet to actually face them.

So yeah, I will post a new short fiction story of some sort the first day of every month (tentative schedule). I will also blog at least twice a week in an effort to force myself to meta-write. Yes, write about writing. See, that helps too, ne? Makes you think about the structure and process. Good times, good time.

So, I have a story up already over on the Short Fiction page, and the next one will be posted on October 1st (even though I’ll still be recovering from Dragon*Con). I figure if you are going to start facing deadlines, might as well try a hard start then let it smooth out after.

So, that’s about it for introductions. Welcome to RichardFife.com!

*editorial note: Yes, we might not quite be up at RichardFife.com yet, but it is forth coming, honest! We just had some issues with the first registar/host we selected, so we are moving to a new one.