Welcome to the middle of 2012, closer and closer to another end of the world prediction that won't come to pass! Time flies and it seems like there's no time at all between updates for another year. The older you get the faster time flies, and as I cruise toward middle age its starting to build a head of steam.

What it also means is that book one of Swords of the Realm is more than halfway through the editing process. The edit is done in thirds, part 1 is proofed and been through my volunteer editors. I've just about wrapped up checking continuity and patching plot holes in part 2 and then its off to the editors and I'm on to part three and the home stretch.

Swords of the Realm currently consists of three books; the first is in the final editing process, the second is a rough draft and the third is a mixture of draft and notes.

As I'm writing and revising and editing and obsessing over details I'm looking at how it will eventually find itself published, there are two traditional methods, find somebody to publish it, publish and distribute myself, and now there are more alternatives available with ebooks. More to think about all the time.

Scribe of the Realm is a writer's web site, as opposed to an author's, because an author is published and I'm still working in that direction, and even if I do succeed in being published I'd still rather think of myself as a writer, author sounds like I'd have to take myself too seriously.

While it may seem pretentious for an unpublished writer to build a site to discuss works not yet complete; but, what better a way to start spreading the word? For that matter, what better a way to make sure that I keep writing than to tease people enough that they want to see more?

You can check out things I've written or what I'm am up to in the column to the left, you can click on the left menu links to go to categories of writing and you can also go check out what I do on other sites.

I am the original founder of the Guild, aka the Fantasy Artists, Roleplayers and Writers Guild, I used a little foresight and took the Guild away from MSN before they announced they were closing their groups and re-established it as a site under it's own domain, with a huge amount of help of my co-founders Kim and Shannon and they've helped me build it into what I consider a cool and quality site.

I've also co-founded Red Zone with my daughter Kasandra, its amazing how a site can veer from what you envision at the beginning and what it matures into over the passage of time.

There's also my column on Newsvine, where I used to escape to discuss politics and still share some of my more unusual writing, most of which I copied from my blog over to there, so you can catch it all here first.

I say used discuss politics because while I still very much enjoy vast the majority of the site, the quality of the site's political content has plummeted as vitriol has replaced talent or even having a message in the stories written or seeded there. If you'd like to know more about Newsvine, I wrote this a couple of years ago: Newsvine: A little review… a little survival guide…

Then, I've done a couple of things with video, you can click the link to go see my Lord Palatine account, and you can find more under Red Zone Fandom on YouTube.

There is now a page for my bio, it was in the blog but WordPress is a little limited in what you can accomplish, so it's now on a web page. You'll find a link on the bio page that'll take you to an about page in the blog where you can ask questions or make comments about the about page. Its simpler than it reads, it has to be, I put it together and complicated makes hair hurt. So, click About Tim, here or at the top left of the page.

Finally, if you're wondering why I have the cane these days, go to my Fibromyalgia page.

Look who just celebrated 25 years and now has a grandbaby on the way!