I’ve also been blogging on professional topics over on my professional site, BethKelleher.com and I’m aiming for roughly a post a week there on various web design, development, usability and other topics of interest to me professionally.

Over here, I’m re-committing to focusing on creative endeavors and I’ve re-worked the WordPress configuration slightly so that I’m using posts as the main form of adding content to the site instead of static links in Pages. Right now, I’ve been sorting through old folders of partially written things and pulling them together into an organized, central repository so that I can readily access all these tidbits of fiction I’ve written in the past 5 years but never pulled together into anything finished.

My next goal is to pick one or two of these tidbits and actually finish them off, get them into manuscript format and start pitching them to various writer’s markets. I have two Young Adult pieces, a couple of sff drabbles, a romance novel and a memoir that could all be focused on for finishing and polishing. Right now, the memoir is sitting up at the forefront of my thoughts and is the likeliest candidate for some expansion.

I’ll write more here as I progress (or don’t).

Today, I’m abandoning “Back Soon” to kick the site off once more. My journal will be re-integrated with the site and I’ll be taking a closer look at some of the WordPress plugins that are available out there to allow me to pull in a robust gallery for displaying artistic and craft projects. For now though, it’s a start to just get a new template onto the site, the software installed and set some goals for the place. My first project will probably be the site itself, integrating the journal, customizing the design, setting up a taxonomy for posting categories and a structure for the static pages.

It feels good to be using this space again, to have an actual personal homepage out there on the ‘net again.