So many of you expressed sadness after last week’s demise of the (retro)blog that I’ve decided to bring it back in a new and kind of crazy way:

via Twitter.

Starting today (and ending um, whenever I get bored or realize that it just isn’t working out) I’ll post random excerpts from the journals I kept between 1983-1999 (ages 10 to 26) 140 characters at a time. (retro)Tweeting, if you will. To me, this could turn out to be the best of all worlds. I can:

1. Embrace new technology and convince myself that I’m not a curmudgeon after all.

2. Cling to my (retro)blogging roots whereby I use old material to avoid writing about my real (i.e., contemporary) life.

3. Stay connected to readers without neglecting my top work priority: writing BUMPED.

This experiment in microblogging might not work. But I’m willing to give it a try if you are…

Before I begin writing a novel, I need to know how it ends. Perhaps this method grew out of the creative frustrations I felt during my earliest years as a fiction writer. When I was in first grade I would often start a short story without any idea as to how I would finish it. When the plot reached a dead end, I would conclude the story thusly:

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Last five-seven-five:

No more Senryu Tuesdays.

It’s time to write BUMPED