{"id":555,"date":"2011-09-28T19:05:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T00:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2011-09-28T19:05:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T00:05:58","slug":"living-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"Living a Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been fairly quiet on here recently, and I’m not entirely sure that it’s going to change. But it might, never know. That said, I thought I’d let people know where I’ve been the last month or so, and what I’ve been up to.<\/p>\n

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The first is that since the last day in May, I have been gainfully employed. After two years\u00a0getting my MBA, actually have a paycheck, and thus money, was a strange and unusual\u00a0occurrence. I could purchase things simply for pleasure, rather than otherwise. Given it coincided more or less with Borders’ going out of business, this means that I am now the owner of rather too many books. Too many more books, I should say. As you can see to the right.<\/p>\n

As an addendum to the job front, I am now in the housing market. This is a strange experience, and would represent the first property I own entirely on my own. It’s been an interesting journey, and I’m now somewhere on house 40+, in terms of those seen, but I do appear to have finally found one or two that I like. So I may, just may, have a place to call my own before the end of the year.<\/p>\n

This would do wonders for my writing, for right now I commute an hour and fifteen either way each day. The job is worth it, but I can’t wait until I get a place an hour closer, and get two hours back each day. At least one of those hours could likely be spent on writing, and what a boon that would be for my storytelling.<\/p>\n

On the subject of my storytelling, there are a few bits and pieces going around. I have been interviewed by the wonderful Alex Laybourne<\/a>, who is entirely too kind. If you have even a moment to pop over there, please do, and show support to a friend of indie writers. Later this week, he’ll have a guest post from me on how I create worlds, and specifically where The Four Part Land came from.<\/p>\n

Finally, and this will appear in a separate post soon enough, Breaking an Empire<\/a>\u00a0is starting to crop up on shelves today. It’s on Amazon<\/a>\u00a0and Smashwords<\/a>, and I’m just waiting for it to hit Barnes and Noble before having a nice big announcement.<\/p>\n

There’s also a few contests that just might be kicking off soon around these parts, so keep those eyes peeled. And now, back to my rather boring life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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