Once more with feeling
Blah... *insert usual rant about not posting and such*
Ok so anyhow, I feel pretty...well blah sums it up. We are in N. Dakota now and it's gorgeous up here, minus the mosquitoes that eat you alive. Seriously it looks like I have the Black Plague (minus the black, so I guess that doesn't really work) on the back of my legs. Disgusting actually.
I love being back with the family, still getting used to the daily life with them and disciplining the kids but that will come with time. My life as far as they are concerned is wonderful, however creatively I am the last kid picked for kick ball.
I always thought of myself as a writer, I got a play(a horrible, horrible play) published in college and eventually started writing fanfiction. Some of it I still think is OK, other pieces not so much and I have started writing again, little drabbles but something. So here is where I feel like a loser; my wife who never really wrote anything before has written not one, not two but three complete novels. I'm talking like actual pick up on the shelves of Barnes and Nobles sized novels. She has shopped one around to publishers and really hasn't gotten any bites but that is not the point, she wrote an original work. And here I sit playing with fanfiction. Not to knock people who do write fanfic, I still do and I still enjoy a lot of it that I read but I think that the secret wish of all us fanfic writers is to do something original.
I don't know, maybe I'm just being overly dramatic. I've always admired the people who can write/draw and just generally create their own worlds and populate them with interesting character's and situations. I have these idea's but am obviously intimated by them, so here is the plan. Set up a WordPress page(or other such site) and chronicle each step as I rewrite Tangled Web. OMG NOT THAT! Yes, yes I know it's not original but let me finish.
Tangled Web is the most complete thing I have, and not only that I at least have a rudimentary understanding of the character's and where I want the story to go. That and I swore I would finish it...and what better way to start than by following through with that?
So in a day or two I will have the new site at least functioning and then if you so wish you can check in on my mental state as I try to tear down this damned wall brick by brick.
Ok so anyhow, I feel pretty...well blah sums it up. We are in N. Dakota now and it's gorgeous up here, minus the mosquitoes that eat you alive. Seriously it looks like I have the Black Plague (minus the black, so I guess that doesn't really work) on the back of my legs. Disgusting actually.
I love being back with the family, still getting used to the daily life with them and disciplining the kids but that will come with time. My life as far as they are concerned is wonderful, however creatively I am the last kid picked for kick ball.
I always thought of myself as a writer, I got a play(a horrible, horrible play) published in college and eventually started writing fanfiction. Some of it I still think is OK, other pieces not so much and I have started writing again, little drabbles but something. So here is where I feel like a loser; my wife who never really wrote anything before has written not one, not two but three complete novels. I'm talking like actual pick up on the shelves of Barnes and Nobles sized novels. She has shopped one around to publishers and really hasn't gotten any bites but that is not the point, she wrote an original work. And here I sit playing with fanfiction. Not to knock people who do write fanfic, I still do and I still enjoy a lot of it that I read but I think that the secret wish of all us fanfic writers is to do something original.
I don't know, maybe I'm just being overly dramatic. I've always admired the people who can write/draw and just generally create their own worlds and populate them with interesting character's and situations. I have these idea's but am obviously intimated by them, so here is the plan. Set up a WordPress page(or other such site) and chronicle each step as I rewrite Tangled Web. OMG NOT THAT! Yes, yes I know it's not original but let me finish.
Tangled Web is the most complete thing I have, and not only that I at least have a rudimentary understanding of the character's and where I want the story to go. That and I swore I would finish it...and what better way to start than by following through with that?
So in a day or two I will have the new site at least functioning and then if you so wish you can check in on my mental state as I try to tear down this damned wall brick by brick.