Still Sick, But On Schedule

I was hoping to be free of the tyranny of this cold, but its been sticking around like a long lost relative looking for money.  It hasn't slowed me down too much, other than the 10 hour naps I've been getting a lot of recently.  If anything, I've been getting more done for some reason.  I'm still on pace to finish the research I was doing, and be able to start finishing things up for the book, in the time I wanted, and maybe sooner if I can pick up some momentum.  I'm still trying to piece together a couple of stories, and its annoying when they have no plot to them. 

Today is really boring too.  I keep taking breaks to play these games on my ipod, and I keep dying all the time. I guess that's eating into my work time...  Oh well.  Back to work kids.  I have to put together some notes or something.

May 24, 2012 4:54 PM.

At this very moment I think I have some pluses and minues this week.  I made some real progress with my writing, but sadly the rest of this week was a complete bust.  I've started selling my personal library to make room, pay some bills, and whatnot.  Really is a mixed blessing, because what am I going to do with a 1,000 volume library anyway?  Actually it really sucks, but that's the way it goes sometimes.  But now on to some good news.  I'm on page 3 of my sort of signature piece.  For some reason I'm blazing away on it.  And that is the high point of my month really.  Work is slow, life is slow, and people are annoying me.  Huh.  I better not get to dramatic on here.  And so my endless battle against evildoers rolls on.  Or something.  Happy Thursday wierdos.

Book Title, Story, and Whatever

I think I've got a book title now.  And I also think I've got some direction for a story I ended up having to gut the last couple of days.  Stuff is so tricky for me, because I want it to be perfect, and I try my best to tweak a story to where I like it.  It some ways its a story that been years in the making, because I've been finding I'm inserting things that remind of stuff that happened to me, or reminds me of something else I've seen in my life.  And I'm starting on that story pretty much right this second.  I'm about three sentences in, so far.  Well four now, since I just added one.  I'm still of the mindset that writing has to have some personal aspect to it, some investment of yourself in it.  And now I'm being distracted between starting the second paragraph, and twitter.  Sounds like another Friday to me.  I better get back to this story, I don't get a lot of things that flow this easy this early on.  See you in the funny papers. 

Useless Books

Can't really give away too much away of the plot, but let's just say I was hoping to read something that might give some understanding into psychology or something.  I'm not really a fan of psychology, but I wanted to get some insight so I gave it a shot.  I picked this book on fanaticism.  What a yawn.  The author kept talking about Freud half the time, misquoted various doctrines of multiple religions, and pieces of history that just didn't really help me out at all.  Its been another in a long list of books I didn't feel like finishing.  This whole research thing has been an interesting experience, because now I have a better gauge on what I need to look at, and what I need to skip for projects. 

Now for something a little more uplifting.  I'm closer to finishing most of the plotting and story development for the longer of my new stories.  And in the last ten minutes I may have come up with either one more story idea, a way to integrate a plot device for a story I already have going.  And that's about it, other than waiting for The Dark Knight Rises to come out, my life is about as eventful as watching grass grow.  (Insert cheesy farewell line here)

Book Title

I have to come up with a book title I realized.  This took me a couple of months last time for some reason.  And for some reason I decided to start working on it tonight.  It also seems to fit my theory that I like to work on too many things at once, even if I'm not making progress.  And all of this is encouraging to me, because I've been sort of mentally shut down by some personal things around me.  And I can literally say writing has been something I've been trying to distract myself with.  I probably say this once a month or something, but its very true. 

I also got to start some new work, and I'm editing, and writing some poetry too.  I think for the most part, I've got a general layout in my head or what the book will look like.  2012 is looking like a halfway decent year.  Now if the election will just go the right way...