It's a busy world

I finally got the time to sit down and write in this blog. I've been working diligently getting my memoir on the shelves and online and it's taking a real toll on my writing time. It's almost there though. Then I can focus on writing more in Spokes. As for Discharge, I had a publisher on the hook but after careful investigation, I decided not to go with them.

Until next time
Robert Detroit

Gripe, Moan, and Complain

It's my turn to wobble the barrel. Trying to shoot a video for my website, robertdetroit.com, is not only challenging, it's frustrating. I finally had the house all to myself, didn't want to take the video in the room where I spend eternity writing, so I carried all the equipment out to the front room and selected just the right position to take my world-changing video. If front of the fireplace seemed appropriate so I set everything up for the shoot. The poor little doggy has a bad chronic cough and about thirteen seconds into the shoot, she started hacking up a storm. I never knew so much noise could come out of such a small package. Take two went fairly well with the exception of the grandfather clock deciding it was time for it to do its thrash and bash thing with only about three seconds left in the minute and a half video. Take three was of no use either. After the mutt was done hacking, the clock was done rattling, and everything was quite, the damn telephone rang about half way through. Take four: After careful planning to make sure the clock was okay, the phone unplugged and the hound done with her thing, right towards the end of the perfect shoot, the sweet little doggy wanted attention so here she came to visit me while the camera rolled. No, there isn't a video on my website yet.

Okay, I'm done.
Until next time, (no griping, I promise,)
Robert Detroit

Another Chapter

Well, if things aren't crazy enough in life, the new week just came up behind me and reminded me that it is time to post another chapter of Spokes on my other blog. I promised to do that and after checking the view count on that blog, people apparently are liking what they see. Nobody is leaving comments, I don't know if that's good or bad, but if you want to leave one, please feel free to do so either here or on the spokes page.
Here are the hyperlinks to both the blog post and my website:
http://spokesthebook.blogspot.com
http://robertdetroit.com/in-the-works

Different Roads to Travel

When it comes to different ways to find just about anything, technology comes right in and helps on a daily basis it seems. Today is the release of the newest, latest gizmo for 'techies,' the new iPhone 5. That's all fine and dandy in more ways in one. Instead of getting too deep into the rivalry between Apple and other manufacturers, Samsung comes to mind, I will instead focus on what this means to the average writer like myself. Even though blogs and such can be read on older devices, people always want to monkey around with their new toy. Well, new toy holders, check out the blog on my upcoming novel, Spokes. It has only been in public view for around 32 hours and already hit over 100 views. Not too bad, keep reading folks! It only gets better.
http://www.spokesthebook.blogspot.com
Leave a comment either here or on the Spokes blog if you want; I would love to hear your input.

Later,
Robert Detroit

By Popular Demand...Spokes

Even though my upcoming creation, Spokes, is far from being a completed book, I have decided to make it public by popular demand. This decision hasn't been an easy one, the thing that took me over the edge is the online seminars I an attending through The Author Learning Center. That program is proving to be quite useful but I'll let you make up your own mind about attending that. Google it, it's there. This post is to provide a link to the blog which will draw you into the book I am writing. It keeps gaining popularity even though it hasn't even been finished, let alone published. I guess it's the idea and concept that has generated so much attention. Here is the link and I will provide a new chapter each week. That will give me the push I sometimes need to keep writing this interesting novel.
http://spokesthebook.blogspot.com/
Enjoy, leave a comment if you want to.

Until next time,
Robert Detroit

Making More Time

In my last post, Making Time, I thought I was really having a rough time making time. Well, that's all changed now with my gramdmother in the hospital and other things that come along at the most inopportune time. I did manage to sit down and spin out the rest of Spoke 5 in my upcoming novel, Spokes, and I truely beleive that I did an excellent job. The chapter falls right where I wanted it to and was very enjoyable to write. With that being said, I will close now and get back to it. Here is the link to my website and it should land you right on the page with a basic outline of Spokes.
robertdetroit.com/in-the-works

Until next week or sooner,
Robert Detroit

Making Time

Preparing for the introduction of my upcoming book, Behind the Signs, has taken pretty much all of my time. I've been aching to write some more in Spokes but quite simply, I haven't had much of an opportunity to do it. Well, I decided at 4:30 this morning that by 5:15 I would fire up the HP, check my email, then open Spokes and be writing by 5:30. I now have about 45 minutes of writing into it. The stuff I wrote just flowed out like there was no tomorrow so it's going to take a trememdous ammount of editing but that's okay; at least I whipped out about four pages of double-spaced text. I think it's now time for another cup of coffee.

Until next week,
Robert Detroit