Hi. I'm sitting here and thinking, hey, I kinda miss blogging, so I'm determined to get back into the swing of things. But there have been some good things that have happened during my hiatus, so I'm going to tell you about them.
I've always wanted to write. It's one of my few truly creative outlets. So this year I wanted to finish some of my writing projects and get a handle on writing, and I've done just that. I've finished four short stories (Conscious, Perchance To, Garamond... and Wilted) and I'm working on one right now (The Pact - Working Title) and I have the whole story in my mind, so I should be done soon. I've also started three other new projects, though we'll have to see what comes of them, and I've added maybe twenty new original ideas to my notebook for keeping ideas until I use them. Considering that I still have a life and don't get too much time to devote to writing, I think that I've had a pretty productive summer.
There's also been at least one disappointment for my writing. I was going to write for the first time in the superhero genre, and here's the extremely brief treatment for the idea I was going to write. Note, I wrote this about three years ago, but I was going to actually start threshing out a story, well I don't want to get ahead of myself. The next paragraph is copied right out of my notebook, word for word.
Villain treatment where you really get to know a comic-booky villain. They plot and plan and execute, when the hero shows up, busts him up then bails. Everything is from the villain's perspective, and the hero is an anticlimactic agent.
Here, I thought I had a unique perspective on creating a funny superhero story, and then I watched Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. This thing had Neal Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion in it and was written by Joss Whedon! I can't compete with that. As I was working through the details of my story, I had this idea of a hero who is a total tool and really trying to get the reader to identify with the villain, rooting for him to win. The similarities of the story I was thinking of and Dr. Horrible were, well let's just say if I didn't change a lot, I'd look like a plagiarist. It's easier to mark the differences. In my story, there were more than one superhero ruining my guys plans and the girlfriend was more of a henchman character. If I didn't practically idolize Joss Whedon's ability to create and think Neal Patrick Harris was so cool, I'd be kinda ticked. BTW, my working title was "The Hero is a Jerk".
This summer, I've also expanded my online bookstore quite a bit. On 9/29/09, I officially hit the 1000 books in my store mark. This might not seem like a huge accomplishment, but I'm geeked. I'm starting to develop plans for my bookstore, and would really like to bump it up a bit more soon. I'm planning to have about 1100 books mid-October, and maybe around 1250 by the time I put it in vacation mode on 12-1. I hate post offices in December, so I take a month vacation from my bookstore ever year, and this year I think I'm going to extend it until 1-15-10.
One of the last things I've done is scan the pages I've got done for my children's book. I still have about 6 pages to go, and then I'm going to talk to my cousin Sarah about helping me illustrate it when she moves to Michigan later this month.
Still, with all I've done over this summer, I've really kinda missed this, so I'm going to try to blog on a consistent basis again. What I'm thinking is that I'm going to try to get to this blog every Friday, and then if I can, I'll add Monday and if I'm feeling really up to it, I'll throw in a Wednesday too. Hopefully more to come soon.
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