Burning the midnight oil…

I’ve spent the better part of this week in front of a computer, working on either comic books, editing art for comic books or taking the time to work on my own fiction and non-fiction projects. I’ve become terribly nocturnal over the last few days, but I have to get my sleep schedule back to normal before I take the boys for the weekend on Friday. Usually when I’m struggling with one project, I’ll pick up another and then try to use that momentum to shift back to the work I need to get done. I’ve been doing that a lot this week, but I need to concentrate on specific work especially the ones that pay since I’m still saving up for my trip to Florida next month.

While part of me wishes that I could find an agent to represent my work, I’ll be the first to admit that there are some benefits to self publishing. One of them happens to be full control of the manuscripts. The freedom to write anything I want without someone looking over my shoulder to tell me what I can or cannot write because it might hurt someone’s feelings is quite liberating. I can write anything I want, about any subject that I want. Right now I’m writing one fiction and one non-fiction project that I am sure is going to make a lot of people’s blood boil, and I don’t give a flying fuck about them or their feelings. These are stories and subjects that I want to talk/write about, and I’m going to finish both of them before the summer and post them on Smashwords and Lulu as soon as possible.

I watched the town hall on CNN last night about the Florida Shooting. While I’m not his biggest fan, I have to give props to Marco Rubio for showing up when other politicians were refusing to show up for the event. These are Rubio’s constituents, so it’s his responsibility to speak with them and hear what they have to say, and that’s exactly what he did. Rubio walked in there aware that it was going to be a tough crowd and that he was going to be asked some very tough questions… but he did it anyway. I also was impressed with the answers he was giving, telling the kids from Parkland that he’s going to support pushes for background checks, raising the age to buy any kind of rifle to 21, banning bump stocks, and also magazine limits. If a staunch gun rights Republicans like Rubio can shift on that, anything is possible. This morning, even Trump it tweeting about raising the age to 21. It looks like the kids are having a bigger effect on politics that we imagined.

Obama had a democratic majority in the house and senate in 2009, and they never passed a single law to stop the shootings. No background checks, no reinstating of the assault rifle ban. Nothing! Now we’re hearing Republicans talk about passing magazine limits, bump stock bans and raising the age limit. I’m not going to hold my breath, but if Trump and the GOP pass something, it will be rather embarrassing for democrats who did sweet fuck all when they had the super majority in 2009. It’s  very possible that all the talk we’re hearing now is just to appease those who are angry, but with an mid-terms coming up in November, it’s looking rather encouraging. It will be interesting to see how the NRA responds to all this talk coming from the GOP and the President about gun control.

But talk is cheap, I’ll believe these guys when Agent Orange signs the new bills into law.

Forgive me if I don’t hole my breath.

Peter