Update!

So I’ve been pretty good at finishing and posting blog entries lately but I know without proper direction I will eventually veer off. It has been interesting that the blog has been on my mind – and therefore more likely to be written – than stories for the collection, but when I thought about it I could understand why that is the case. In an effort to ensure that I continue to write entries, and post them, for the blog I am taking it in a new direction: simply, more focused.

The blog will continue with the Friday posts for the main “meat” of the whole concept. Friday posts will be the posts that I rant and make observations about news items and whatnot. I am going to play with a new idea, pretty much based on what I already wrote about and the sort of stuff I’m interested in. The Malcolm Shabazz post, the music review post, the “mud cookies” post (infamous in my own mind), and the “Seeing Sounds” post all represent the sorts of things I read/think/rant about. I figured I’d keep with that tradition and write about music, WTF news, inspiration/ inspirational issues, and religion/race matters. Each month there is enough news or interesting topics for any one of those topics.

For months with five Fridays, such as next month, I will write an extra “MissMaria’s bonus rant” or something to that effect which will cover anything I wanted to discuss but couldn’t easily categorize above or perhaps just had too many options for one category and decided to choose another one initially. That should give me incentive to write about different topics as I see fit and just squeeze them in when I can.

Finally, every other Wednesday (such as this one) there will be shorter posts to keep you updated on me/my life/the book(s)/my writing/etc and will include any information and/or updates about the blog. I hope this will provide a way to cover all my bases. I hope this too will be incentive for me to make sure I am doing something with my writing each week as I am a pretty private person as it relates to my personal life!

So, God willing, there will be weekly posts on Fridays and every other week on Wednesdays (I would say biweekly but I can’t remember if that is to mean once every two weeks or twice per week and the dictionary isn’t really helping on the point and “fortnightly” sounds too Shakespearian). All posts should be up at around noon to 1:00 pm. It will definitely be noon EST once I make sure of the time zone this site uses. I will hopefully find catchy names/titles for each category.

As an example of a given month, this month I have already done my WTF and inspiration posts. I have music and race matters to discuss. This Friday I will probably discuss music as I have some things on my mind about the topic. I will not have scheduled weeks for various topics. You will just have to visit and see what topic I choose to discuss that week! Hopefully this will give you incentive to come back every week!