Tired

I have a day off tomorrow, which means I'll be sleeping in till noon or so.  Yesterday, I worked about 16 and a half hours, and got home some time after 1am or so I think.  I've been a little lightheaded today, and I think its from exhaustion or something.  I'm just sore and achy, and could use a 20 hour cat nap.  Somehow I'm supposed to connect this to my writing...well, at any rate, I haven't had a lot of time to write the last week or two, because of work, but I am trying doing a lot of notetaking for my novel, and history book.  Sorry it isn't more exciting, but things are slow, and I need a vacation or something...

Present Tense and Handwriting

I've been working on a story, thats completely written in the present tense.  Its a little slow sometimes finding words that fit, but its not as difficult as you might think.  I might try this on the novel too.  I've been finding out its sometimes a hard habit to break out of.  I was even briefly considering how to tell a story in the future tense, but that might be stretching things.  I might also try to handwrite a rough draft of the novel first too.  I wanted to try that this time, but it didn't work out because of time constraints.  I'd really like to try it once, but I seem to just break down and end up typing projects.  I'm not really under a time limit on these next two projects, so I'm thinking it'll work this time.  Alright you can go  back to your drinking, you drunks.

Crap

So apparently, I'm going to writing three books.  One is the book revision, one is the history book, and it seems I'm going to write a novel too.  I guess I'm a glutton for punishment or something.  I think I'm going to turn a short story into a novel, which means I'm down to two projects left for the book revision.  That's kinda nice, because it means, I'm closer to finishing it.  The novel should also give me a chance to work on something, that won't take as long to finish as the history book.  I think I'll need to do a little research, but I think the novel has some real potential.  I just don't find that a short story will be enough with this, and I don't want to leave anything out.  I try to unpack as much feeling as I can into projects, so I don't have regrets later.  And I just got a great idea for my little primer on men and women!  Holy crap, I'm a genius.

Slowly Getting to the Finish Line

I'm a little closer today, than I was yesterday.  I'm down to three stories, and that means, I'm almost done with this revision.  Finally!  I'm trying to close some plot gaps, but it shouldn't be too hard.  I hope.  So far, I'm picking up a few idea for the next project I guess, I'm a little disappointed by the idea its going to take me a very long time to complete.  I was thinking it could take a couple of years, to complete at the very least, a rough draft for the history book.  Its hard to see that far down the line a little, and its discouraging a bit too honestly.  I'm not a patient guy, and I like things done quickly.  I guess I should try and break it up into little pieces, that might make it seem like I'm getting something done, I suppose.  Anyhoo...I'm close at least on finishing this one.  And that's a big deal...even if it doesn't sound like it.

Booklist and the Final Four

I'm up to about 20 books and websites so far for my research list.  I've been thinking of sort of making it the Revolutionary War version of that Civil War classic history, The Battle Cry of Freedom.  I guess I'd like it to have the same impact, as Battle Cry did, sort of making it a definitive work, if I can.  I've also trimmed my projects a little, as I've been back and forth between doing three or four more stories for the book revision.  I thought as of about 30 seconds I was done to three, but I might just do four.  I have all four started already anyway.  Might as well see them through.  And in other news, its apparently October, and people are still going out their way to try my patience.  It seems like certain individuals really go out of their way to draw attention to themselves for whatever stupid reason...  Also my computer is throwing a fit, and keeps freezing a lot, so I better type faasss....

I Forgot About Pictures

I'm going to try my best to formulate complete sentences.  I worked about 50 hours in the last four days, and got home at 3 in morning today, and 6 in the morning the day before, so I'm having some trouble trying to stay awake.  I'm going to try and get some writing done anyway, just for the simple fact, I haven't really been able to get anything done in the last few days. 

I also had a strange thought that other day.  It seems in my desire to write an American history book, I forgot to think of something simple.  I need to find pictures, and maps, and things like that to put into it.  I thought of this months ago, but for some reason not when I actually decided to go ahead with the project.  I have no idea what kind of issues are involved in using pictures, or maps, if anything falls under the category of open domain, and what things I'd have to get permission for.  I suppose I can wait on this, but I have no idea even where to begin on that anyway.  I guess I'm going to try and get something done now, see you in the funny papers.

Prep Work

I've been bored the last couple of days at work, while on my lunch break, so I've started compiling a book list of books to read and use in my research for my American Revolution book.  I got about 8 books listed so far, and I think I've got a fairly decent idea of how to proceed with it, but I'm not sure yet.  I'm looking into the Founders' religion too a little, and I was even looking at things directed towards kids, so I could see how history books are geared towards people of different age groups.  Its been a while, since I wrote on anything historical, so I guess I want to be simple enough for anyone to understand it.  That's the plan anyway.

And in other news, I'm close to finishing another story, but I'm trying to find the right way to end it.  I know how the story will end, I'm just looking for the right way to end it.  I'm at some funky points in the last few projects for the book revision.  Just stuck a little, I guess.  I'm sure I'll get it out, its usually gets slow for a couple of days, while I wait for some genius to strike.  Of course it always does, I just have to patient.  That's believeable right?