Well, I’m back into the writing after a three week hiatus. Part Two of Nethermore is outlined, and I started the actual writing of it last night. Rather than run myself into the ground by writing three and four thousand words a day, I’m going to keep my goal reasonable (1000 words a day) in order to maintain some kind of a balance in my life. That doesn’t mean that I won’t be doing more than that. It’s about an hour of work each evening. I think I can do that.

My friend Shawn Boyles has set up a blog over at blogspot. It’s called Spike the Surf Dog, and today he posted a picture of . . . well, Spike the Surf Dog. I love the story about how he came up with the name, and I love that dog’s Hawaiian shorts—gotta get me some of those.

When I was 19 my family took a vacation to Hawaii, and me and my Dad learned to surf from a guy who called himself Spike the Surf Dog. I had never heard somebody actually pray for Groovy waves before.

Well, that’s what I’ll be praying for as I continue to write this book. Groovy waves. Groovy waves for everyone.