Blind Journey

"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it." -- Rosalia de Castro, Galician writer

I saw this quote today at the bottom of one of the many commercial real estate and finance newsletters that I get via e-mail. I think it was meant to inspire investors to go ahead and spend the money they've stockpiled, even if they're unsure about the returns they're likely to get from their investment, but I thought it was a fitting description of my own writing path.

Until the middle of last year, my writing for a very long time was limited to the news articles that I compose for work. But, around June or July, I started working on other projects as a sort of experiment.

I've always said I didn't think I had a novel in me. Yet out of a desire to branch out of my professional focus on commercial real estate for the past 10 years, I started working on a couple of different stories to see where they would take me. Since then, one story fizzled out, another is nearing an end and a third is waiting for me to pick up where that trail left off. I've got my eyes on a couple of other paths that look interesting too.

I don't know where this journey is -- or these journeys are -- going to take me, if anyone will read these stories besides me, if anything will come out of these projects other than a lot of late nights and missed sleep, but I'm excited to see what happens when I get to the end of the road.