Friday, April 16, 2010

My summer project ...

As some of you know I've been sort of tinkering around with a novel for a number of years, and about 20 days ago I picked it back up. With spring football about to wrap up (along with the NFL Draft), the Huddle Up series on hold for a year and law-school genius girlfriend getting ready for finals and then heading out of the country (again!), the timing feels right.

I'll get a vacation in somewhere before things crank back up in July, but no clues when or where yet.

Although I lost four chapters due to computer issues (oops), I've gone back and reworked six of the first eight and tweaked some of the characters as I have a better feel for what I want.

Two things of note:
1) I have no timetable for finishing it.
2) No, I'm not telling anyone anything on what it's about. I'll slowly leak some things out here, but that's about it. We'll see how it goes, but wish me luck.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The latest during a very busy spring ...

This was my recent column on University of Alabama guard Barrett Jones visiting Haiti.

Strangely, I ended up doing two columns on his visit, one before and one after.

http://alabama.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1070921

More soon ...