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You might have noticed a new look to Renegade Sanctuary today, or even during the weekend. For years, I’ve used Movable Type as my blogging system of choice, but as time moved on and my needs changed I found myself increasingly limited by what I could do with my MT blog with the limited time I had.

Now this has nothing to do with skill, because I know I could have learned what I needed to get Renegade Sanctuary were I wanted. No, it was a matter of what I wanted to spend my time doing. Instead of tinkering with the blog, I’d rather be writing, and with this in mind I decided to make the leap to WordPress.

With the wealth of themes, plugins, and other extensible functions and design elements, I could easily change my blog with little effort. Compare that with the near Herculean effort of finding any sort of theme or design for Movable Type and you can see the appeal.

It took a little work during the weekend (and some help from great friends on Plurk. Hello Allan!) to migrate everything, but thankfully with the use of my blogging software, Ecto, I was able to quickly restore my old entries from MT to Wordpress in only a couple of clicks. I looked around for a couple of themes and decided on a couple of them, starting with Chris Pearson’s NeoClassical. A very nice and clean theme which I plan to build on by switching out the default images and adding a couple of more widgets.

Since I’m still new to Wordpress, if there are some plugins or widgets you’d recommend I use, please feel free to leave me a comment and I’ll look into it.

So, without further discussion, I’m off to continue writing. Keep an eye out here for new features, content and for details on a new writing project I’m working on involving social media and fiction.

Talk to all of you later!

I can now say that the end is nigh. No, not the end of the world (at least I hope not) but the end of my novel. So far I’m in the last 5,000 words or so of it and I can feel the threads are coming to a close and then I can start the process of re-writing.

I do apologize for the lack of content update, but it’s been a harrowing week or so. Who could have thought possible to first catch something at Residency and then get either some minor food poisoning or stomach flu from a July 4th family gathering? It makes me the lucky winner this month and my prize is an economy sized bottle of Pepto.

Toward the end of this week, when I aim to finish the novel, I’ll be going back to my daily posting regime and post some more information on what happened at Residency and what I learned while there. I also have some great updates as far as social networking is concerned and how writers can use it to their maximum effectiveness.

I’ve been neglecting all of my blogs. Life stepped in and occupied a good chunk of my time. It was only until recently that I feel I can dedicate the time I need to in order to make my blogs flourish.

Now, it’s going to take some time before you really see my hit my stride, but I hope to post more things of interest here and there and make it a worthwhile read.

And now on to current happenings.

At the moment, I’m preparing for my next residency at Seton Hill. It’s been a long road but I finally see a light at the end of the tunnel and it’s not a freight train. I have only 15,000 words left in the manuscript and my mentor says that I can get it done before the start of Residency on June 24th.

It’s a lot of work, but I’ve done it before and I know with the new ideas and direction my mentor has given to me I can finally cross the finish line. Graduating next January is now no longer a distant dream and I’m excited just by the thought of it.

I’ll be posting about progress periodically, along with any articles, links and other things of interest I find in my travels across the Internet.

Thanks for reading!