Opinions Please

Some time ago I had the notion of putting a little feature in my book revision for women.  Sort of a playbook on the way guys think.  That's sadly fallen by the wayside in some respects, but I was wondering if I should still put that in or not.  And then I had another notion.  In light of recent events politically I was wondering if I should write something politicial too.  So that's it.  Let me know what you think.  Should I write both, only write one, or what?  Hit me up here, on twitter, or drop me a line at stevendumas24@hotmail.com  Thanks folks.

Yeah....

I have nothing new today.  I keep second guessing myself a lot.  There's a couple of idea I have but I just feel like they've been done to death.  Everytime I think of something I don't feel like it'll be a good story to tell even though, it seems very appealing at the time.  But for some reason I'm still trying anyway. 

And to top it off, with recent political happenings going on, I've become even more adamant to writing something with political meat to it.  So...it looks like I might have to be push back publishing a bit to be able to read the history and political theory books I should be looking at.  I keep changing my plans all the time...oh well.  That's the way it goes.  Stay tuned.

Writing Sucks Today

Today was not a good day for writing.  I'll save you the details and simple say, everything I've been trying to do today has been a complete and utter waste of time it seems.  I have no idea what to do with some of this stuff.  I've already got rid of some story ideas in favor of others, and then find out those aren't really working out the way I want either.  Oh bother. 

I guess I shouldn't complain too much.  I've got some good material I can still use for some things, so that's what I'll be working with from now on I think.  I'm contemplating writing two mystery short stories now, so maybe that'll help get me out of the funk.  And as usual I have to somewhat vague about it, because I don't want to give anything away.  So...I guess I'm done griping now.

Second Book!

So...today I'm looking at doing two books.  I'm still working on the original revision I was doing, but instead of adding one of the stories I had intended to include with the revision, I've decided to expand the story into a whole other book.  I was hoping to have all my research done for the revision, but with a second book, I'm probably looking at another 3 or 4 thousand pages of research reading I'd have to do.  I guess that's not a big deal, I was just hoping to be done with all of my reading soon.  Oh well carpe diem or something.  Anyhoo, that's the new plan.  Unless I change it again.  I was thinking the overall intergrity of this new story might be diminished if I don't give it its own forum.  And on the plus side, I can tell women I wrote two books...

New Direction I Suppose

Had to blow up another story.  Its not the greatest feeling in the world.  I'm going to tweak parts of a story I've had in my head for the last 20 years, and interject it with parts of another story from 15 years ago.  This should come great.  I think.

Hi

Today I lunch I managed to deduce an intersting opening to my war story.  The villian is apparently the focus for this one, much more than the hero is.  That's a bit different than maybe most stories, or novels go, but I think its the right thing to do here.  Its possible he might the more intriguing of the characters anyhow, even if he is evil and stuff.  It should be a particularly daunting task, as I've got to make him interesting to the reader, but at that same time, make that reader hate this guy's guts.  I also have to work on the hero for this too.  I am really up on the creek, because I have no idea what his name is, or what he's like.  I guess its not that big of a deal, I have some ideas on what kind of character he should be too, but I should really try to have more of this stuff done before I start writing maybe.

I Have No Idea What Day It Is Again.

Is today Tuesday?  I'm going to act like it is.  I just found I passed 1,000 views on this goofy little blog.  That's right somebody out there likes me.  Hopefully it's mostly women, because lets be honest, I like girls.  Moving on...I started writing one the last stories for the book today at lunch.  This is the World War II story, I've had in the back of my mind since the mid-90s or so.  Its tough to find the balance of plausibility and adventure, I'm not the best at military fiction, and I worry about doing a disservice either to the military or to the very serious and on the other hand, its a great setting for a fun story.   I probably brought that up before too, but too bad, I already typed it, and I don't feel like going back and erasing it.  And so another day or writing is in the record books.  Alright, I'm off to do something else now.  Have fun boys and girls.