Changes, The Climbing Zine and Luke’s Bloggie Blog

Something really cool is going to happen for The Climbing Zine this week. On Friday, April 20th we are going to release the e-reader version of Volume 4, and we are going to launch our official website. That is so awesome for many reasons, and it also means the terrain of this blog will open up. Most of my climbing-related blogging will be posted on The Climbing Zine’s website, and this site will feature other sides of what I like to write about.

I love to write, and an essential part of writing is doing it everyday. Practice the craft, put in your time; I believe in this. I also believe writing is the greatest thing I have to share with the world. It is really the greatest gift I feel I’ve been given.

I’m stoked to write about: family, friendship, love, changing of seasons, emotions, nutrition, gardening, mistakes, bicycles, travel, books, zines, yoga, music, dancing, running; everything that makes my life worth living. I want to occasionally reach that ‘tingle in the spine’ moment with my words, for the reader.

I started this blog a few years ago because people kept asking me if I had a blog, when I told them I was a writer. It became the source for news on The Climbing Zine, when it really took off, and now that zine has a life of its own, and this Friday it will have its own landing page.

            

Life is a beautiful struggle. Thanks for all the love, and I promise to continue delivering the goods.

Love

I have been out of a solid writing routine lately. It happens. I'm a writer, and the more I write the more I also realize there are other elements to being a published author besides actually writing. Lately I've been promoting my writing alot. Someday maybe I'll have people that do that for me, but currently I do it myself, tooting my own horn as they say. That said, I hope to get immersed in a big writing project in the near future. With another house sitting gig on the way after this one, I certainly have plenty of free time on my hands.

Today is Valentine's Day. Like many folks out there I am single on Valentine's Day. This used to bother me in the past, but it really doesn't, at least not today. With the exception of Thanksgiving, I'm not really big on holidays. I think holidays have so many falsities attached to them that getting upset because I don't have a special ladyfriend on a certain day would be silly, don't you think?

I do think it is cool there's a day to celebrate love though. So that's exactly what I will do today. I love my life. I love my family. I love my friends. I love climbing, and everything that has come along with it. In a couple hours I'm headed to a yoga class. I love yoga more and more as I get older and learn more about it. It is a beautiful thing.

It's snowy and cold outside my writing window at the moment. I just got a final draft to the last story for The Climbing Zine Volume 4 from D. Scott Borden, so I'm going to send that off to our wonderful graphic designer Mallory Logan. We're close to shipping! Hopefully I can get back in the zone of creating something beautiful and long for the people, after this project is done. I guess that is the head space of the writer. It's great to see something published, but a true artist knows she or he is only as great as what they are working on at the moment.

Much Love,
Luke