Fewer Posts Means More Time for Writing

If you are one of my 50-odd regular readers you have probably noticed that I have been posting quite a bit less since I came back from Malaysia a few weeks ago. It is difficult for me to point to an exact reason for stepping back from daily updates on my life/opinions here in Chennai, but a lot of it comes down to the fact that putting together a post can tak anywhere from one to two hours (including internet browsing, procrastination and general mucking about) and I haven't always had that time available in my schedule. In the past couple weeks my editorial schedule really started heating up. I put the story about the rickshaw race to bed (due out in the January issue of Wired, I think), picked up another assignment about satellite tracking murderous elephants in bengal and finished off a feature for .Net about censorship in the Malaysian blogosphere.

As I look forward to the coming weeks I can see that my schedule is going to lighten up considerably and I have two choices before me. I can either start pitching new ideas to magazines and websites and continue on with my normal daily blogging, or I can begin writing the book I have been avoiding for the last couple years. Today I am beginning to map out chapters and, I hope, start getting serious about this larger project. If it works out, I will most likely do a lot less posting so that I can keep my focus on this project.

But then again, I have ditched book writing attempts before, so lets just wait and see what happens.