Jolene in Real Life

As of today I have a whopping 45 Twitter Followers.  I'm pretty excited seeing as how I've never actually asked anyone to follow me.  This whole thing has been a bit of an experiment for me in social networking.  But it occurred to me that some of these followers, especially the fellow writers, may actually stop at my blog since I have it posted on my Twitter profile.  Sadly they will find it lacking.  Unfortunately I haven't had many opportunities to get on my laptop so I've been using those precious moments to work on my novel.  I managed to snag one 10 minute appointment each with an agent and an editor at the RWA Conference in Anaheim so I want to make sure it is well polished.  Part of my reason (OK, maybe the main reason) for doing this blog and the twitter account is that I would like to create a ready set audience for when I am published either through a large publishing house or self-publishing.  My youngest son is starting Kind...

Two parts to this post: First, what do I really expect to achieve with this blog?  I'm beginning to think it is another form of procrastination.  Think back to my last post about procastinating versus just being lazy.  If I'm blogging on here, then I'm doing something that involves writing.  But it gives me less time to do actual writing, as in the kind that might get me published.  I haven't written any more on my sci-fi short story since Monday, however I managed to watch the highlights of the People's Choice Awards.  Perhaps I feel that if people enjoy reading this, then they might enjoy other things that I have written.  Seeing as how nobody is reading this, that part isn't going top well for me just yet.  But I will continue to write on here because every writer has a blog, right?  I promise it won't be all about writing though, that would just get boring.  If I ever end up with any followers, I might actually...