Just a few minutes ago I uploaded a short story, “Charley Delta Delta” to Amazon and Smashwords. It’s my twelfth item to publish (if you count the two versions of Documenting America as separate items. Time to move on to something else to write.

So it’s time to decide what to write next. Actually, I’ve already decided. I believe I will write the following, in this order.

I have a professional essay I wrote for work titled “The Learning Curve: 11 Suggestions for Accelerating Your Professional Development”. The essay was written specifically for my employer, CEI Engineering Associates, Inc. It needs some modification for the general market. I began going through it a couple of months ago, and got half way through it. I believe I can have it ready to publish in a week. Except I’ve got some graphics in it, and would need a cover. But they’re simple graphics, and I hope I can do them. So, I would hope to publish this in the first half of August.

This week at work I began writing the second volume of The Gutter Chronicles: The Continuing Saga of Norman D. Gutter, Engineer. In two lunch hours I wrote 850 words. The first volume was a 42,000 word novella in fifteen chapters. It deals with workplace situations, humorous things that have happened to me over my 39 year engineering career. I figure the new one will be about the same, and have about half the chapters planned. I have no schedule for this, but now that I’ve started I think I’ll keep on it till it’s finished. Although, I haven’t really thought ahead to the ending.

The next novel I’m going to work on is Headshots, the sequel to my baseball novel In Front of Fifty Thousand Screaming People. I may be crazy to do this, given how the first one didn’t sell, but that’s what I plan to do.

Once I get past them I’ll stop and re-think.