Way back in 2011, I began my first blog. Fifteen years later, I have designed a new Author website that includes space for a new blog called Creative Ink. I have added excerpts from the original as an introduction, since they were posted while I was researching and writing my first novel, After the Storm (first published in 2016). I only kept posting new entries until 2018, eight years ago. It is time to fill in some of the gaps since then and begin a new chapter. (To read more of the original blog, go to somethingsewfine.blogspot.com. New posts will begin below this introduction.)