In Which LTUE and Oral Surgery Are Found Guilty

Titansday once more, and here we are back at the blogging. If you hadn't noticed, three days a week for blogging proved to be too hard. It kept me from doing what I love doing. I discovered I was better off blogging once a week and writing good stories than blogging thrice weekly and let my writing suffer. Than why, you ask, hasn't there been a blog post for the past two weeks. I'll give you two reasons: "Life, the Universe & Everything," and wisdom teeth extraction.

Two weeks ago, I attended Life, the Universe, & Everything, a Science-fiction and Fantasy symposium for writers. Basically, it's a writing conference I go to every year. After three years of going, however, it felt like they were going over much of the same topics, and I ended up working on my WIP instead. But--there were a couple times, especially when Brandon Sanderson was on the panel, that I learned some things. The most important thing I took away from the entire experience was this: ultimately, in every case, the thing that will sell your book is your book; the most important things you can do as a writer are focus on the craft, do your best (always getting better), and living your life. Marketing comes fourth. And depending on some people's lives, marketing is actually fifth or sixth.

So what does this have to do with the absent blog post? Well, you see, when I was supposed to be blogging, I was actually out having dinner with J. Scott Savage, Chad Morris, Mark Forman, and two of my best writing friends, Jackson Porter and Mathew Hayes, at an amazing authentic Japanese restaurant called Osaka. Also, I was getting books signed by Brandon Sanderson. (The guy kept carried around Words of Radiance so nonchalantly, I though for sure someone was going to steal it. Oh well, it comes out in three days; I've already got mine pre-ordered. I'm excited just a little. As is the rest of the world.)


In other news, I got my wisdom teeth out just over a week ago and as a result was only able to eat peach sherbet, drink orange soda, moan, rub by then ten-pound cheeks, watch Inception, and sleep. Yeah. There was no way I was doing a blog post. Did I mention this went on for four days? I strongly dislike the people who get over it in just over 24 hours.

Anyway, I've got to get writing. Next week, I'll let you know how the Words of Radiance midnight book release went. And hopefully my computer will let me upload pictures. I was going to have one of my friends and I at Brandon's book signing at LTUE (WoR was in the pic. :D Ah!), but, you know . . . computers and technology. . . .

Until next time!

What is your favorite flavor of sherbet? Post it in the comments below.