rlfj: Blog

I know it's been a long time since I've published anything. I've had a bad case of writer's block. Maybe this will help. It's not a long story, but it should be fun. Remember the song Harper Valley PTA? My take is going to start posting shortly. My regular schedule is a chapter every Tuesday and Friday. I hope you like it. Enjoy!

I just updated and edited The Jenson Family Chronicles, both books (The Rescue and The Storm.) I also updated it on bookapy. Enjoy!

I just updated and edited Generations. I also updated it on bookapy. Next up, The Jenson Family Chronicles, both books. Enjoy!

I just updated and edited Surprises and The Wilkerson Institute. I also updated them on bookapy. Enjoy!

I just updated and edited The Swap Club and The Power. I also updated them on bookapy. It’s been interesting rereading some of these older stories. Both Swap Club and Power are some of my oldest, and I wrote them back in the mid-1990s. Cell phones and DVDs were brand new, the internet moved like molasses in January, and we still had VCRs and videotapes. Occasionally I reference vehicle brands that no longer exist. (Ford Taurus ring a bell?)

For those curious, I am not rewriting the stories to bring them up to modern standards – I’m not changing car brands or switching from VCRs to DVRs, etc. I am also not rewriting the stories to improve the writing. I’m a much better writer now than I was thirty years ago, but I am going to let sleeping dogs lie, even if I do a little grooming on them. I am simply fixing punctuation, spelling, grammar, and such items. This takes a surprising amount of time. I have to go through a story sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph. Then, each chapter has to be converted to html, which occasionally needs to be edited as well. Even with current spell and grammar checkers, this takes time. Swap Club, one of my shorter stories, took over a week to redo. The big ones, like A Fresh Start and The Grim Reaper series, took well over a month each.