Gah, writer's block!

            I keep telling myself I am going to sit down and write, I’ll do it by golly. Yet when I get to the computer screen as if late, I draw a blank… seriously, nothing comes to mind nor can I bring myself to write out what needs to be written.

            It’s been going on for nearly two weeks now. I got over some of my old stories and add new details and take some things out. I am glad though the novels I have been looking over still got a ways to go, as of late it appears that I am forcing the story, rather than letting the reader take hold and thinking for themselves.

            Sorry, it’s been a long few days for me as of late. Still, I got to get myself to start writing something, I have to. And yet it is still the second novel that is resisting me! I know what I want to write, I just need the proper words for it.

            Damn, you think this would get easier over time?

            Well Anywho, as a distraction, I’ve set up my garden for the summer time. I am even making a smaller standing garden and it will hopefully be up by the end of the week.

            Funny story about that, and it happened today actually.

            Things had just come together for me when it came to purchasing items. One, at the supermarket, I got some red peper for the night’s dinner. Normally they are 2.99 a pound… so three guesses what I am growing this year!

            Back to the story

            I get up to the cash register and they come in marked down to 1.79!

            Awesome sauce!

            Second, I went to pick up the wood needed for the garden and new curtains for my room. My older brother is a stickler for detail and holding companies to their policies. (he could have been a damn good lawyer if that’s what he wanted to be.) He was getting the same curtains as me. Last ones in the store too. So we get up to the register and they come in at a higher price when they were on sale. So he asked them. “Do you uphold the retail law?”

            The cashier nodded her head and we saved nearly fifteen dollars on the curtains! Nice huh? Oh and I got a free board of wood too! Things were just coming up Shannon today!

            But once I got home… I still couldn’t sit down and write!

            I need to get out of this rut and start something else, find other activities to distract my mind and perhaps the ideas will finally come. Perhaps it’s too many characters? Or I need to do some more reading to get the old brain box working!

            Until next time…

Under the weather

            It been a long week since I have posted something here, among other things it was the long weekend here and Canada, sadly, with my job there is no such thing as a ‘long weekend’ all you look forward to is stat pay.

            Anyway, I just want to say my heart goes out to those who have been affected by the tornados in the states. My thoughts and prayers are with you always, and may this end sooner than later. I cannot imagine what one goes through when storm after storm occurs. I’ve been most fortunate that the weather here is stable. We’ve been getting a lot of rain, but I am not complaining the least bit.

            On a happier note, I wish to congratulate my fellow writer L. Anne Carrington on her success with her novels. She is very passionate about her writing and offers the reader something new and different. If you are a wrestling fan, she has a book called the Cruiserweight. I don’t know about you, but normally if you want a wrestling story, you read fan fiction or a biography of one whose profession involved a ‘square circle’. But she takes it to a different level. Check her out if you like.

L. Anne Carrington

            As for me, I’ve been sitting down and writing the second novel of my series. Not that simple as many of you many think. I have the idea that I want, and yet I cannot bring out the right words for it. Not to mention I want to make certain the story flows properly, and have a point. Hmm, I think I need to get back into some reading to find my voice again. Does anyone else have the same problem as I do? You could write any other novel right now, and yet you need the second novel in order to get to the other novels. Man, we writers are an interesting bunch huh?

            Today has been my first day off in a week some of you know and are aware. I am looking forward to a nice clear day, I am actually working on a vegetable garden! I’ve planted only a few things right now, and yet have run into a few problems. One grubs. Gah, those little buggers are really rotting my socks right now. I could get nematodes, but that’s nearly 30 dollars out of pocket. Second something (raccoons) are digging in the soil. Why? Grubs. They eat them, but they have to dig up the plants to get to them. Hey, everyone has to eat, and this is an all-natural way of ridding the grubs, just messier and a little more annoying.

            Well I think this is all I can write for now, some bad weather is heading my way as I type this to you now. I hope to have more for you later. Not to mention I am battling something, flu, cold, whatever it is. Here’s hoping it goes away soon and doesn’t affect my writing!

Until next time….

bah I missed a day... or more

            Well so much for trying to blog every day. Sorry about that. I had a long day at work just the other day.

            Strange thing though. I had the strangest dream just the other night, and yet it started at work. We have to mark down the week of the stock when it arrives, yesterday, I was writing 20 on some boxes since it was week twenty and all. When my hand began to make 6’s rather than 0. So I accidently wrote 26 on some items but was quick to correct.

            Then just the other night, I was dreaming that I walked into a strip mall. One of the stores was a hot topic, yet not the same caliber as the ones you see in the mall. Almost like a clearance outlet or a little store that was trying to be a hot topic. Anyway, I remember walking around and finding an item in a discount box. It was apparently a Criss Angel rhinestone bedazzler… you know the thing that allows you to put rhinestones in your clothing? Yeah, that thing.

            Well I picked it up and figured I had to have it. And the cost… $0.26!

            When I woke up this morning, I knew there had to be something about this number. So where do we go to see? The computer!

            I checked out the dream dictionary and found that the number 26 has various means. One mainly being that it represents Karma and the earth. I’ve been itching to do some gardening for the past little while. I got some plants that want to spread roots! But there was another meaning to it. 2+6=8 which represents nirvana. A sense of mind and awareness, I had been considering meditation, now more than ever, I really should take it up.

            I have also recently regained my creative flow, mainly for the second novel that I had been trying to force and idea for. But now, one part of the story is coming in clear as day. It’s just reworking it into the pages I have already written and the parts I did like from the original concept into the story. Not simple when you want it to flow properly. But I’ll figure it out sooner than later.

            It’s rather funny when I serve people at my place of employment. They all look forward to the long weekend and ask me if I was as well. I don’t get a long weekend. I work this week every day but Thursday. Mind you I am not complaining (for the moment) but it’s money, time and a half on Monday. But still, people are surprised that I don’t get a long weekend.

            My work place NEVER closes. Never ever, and I can vouch for that. Even during the HUGE power outage a few years back. We didn’t close, in fact, we were one of the first people to have electricity back up and running! Second, even at Christmas and all other holidays, we’re open.

            Man, it sad to say that we never close for any holiday.

            Anyway.

            I’ll be savoring today, get some writing done and whatnot before my long week before me. Wish me luck, it’s going to be nuts!

just blogging

            A new day a new blog.

            Granted the day has just started and it seems much like the last, but that also depends on what you make of it.

            Just yesterday, I went to godaddy.com and purchased my websites at the advice of Brian Keene and his writer’s workshop. Solid advice too, since if you think about it, when you’re ready to publish and you want a website up and running, get the name first before anyone else! So that way you don’t have to buy it off of someone else later and pay through the nose.

            I have been managing to tweak the website just slightly, I will have to invest more to make it better, but all in due time. For now what I have is what I have and more will be added as soon as I can figure out where to go with it and what my next move is.

            Writing seems to be on the back burner today, I’ll be heading for a mall outing with my older brother before I have to head into work. Money is money right now.

            Also I got to get me a lottery ticket!

            Well, I don’t quite know what else to say here today besides thank you for reading, I am certain something more exciting is on it’s way soon enough. But until then, I will make this a habit and blog every day.

Long needed update

Wow, it’s been a while huh? Still no excuse for me not to be writing. Then again, a lot has been going on here.

I have had a slight change of scenery as I still live at home with my parents… yeah, I know. Second, I traded rooms with my brothers. Third, I went to Austin Texas for the World Horror Convention!

So with money spent and old things were given away to a good cause, there has been some changes about here, even with my writing. In Austin, I was one of ten privileged enough to get into a writer’s course with Mr. Brian Keene, a great writer who had wonderful advice given to me. Even a wakeup call in my case.

We were having a break from the meeting when I explained to him the problem with my story is that people aren’t getting past the prolog I had worked on for the story. In a sense, is what leads up to the novel and yet from what I have read from people, they believe a character by the name of Lucas is the focus of the story. It’s not the case and found it rather frustrating that no one goes beyond the prolog to see the true story.

He looked to me and asked who else had brought up the prolog as an issue, I realized everyone had pointed it out. A good friend of mine by the name of Richard said it was long enough for a short story.

Mr. Keene looked to me and said. “Well, there you go!”

Of course, being as stubborn as I was, I had come to link the prolog to the start of the story. It was what set the mood for a plot twist later on, but I cannot speak of that now. After all, I want to get this story published!

So it has been decided… well… at least for me. I will publish the prolog as a download for kindle. I have to organize it first and be certain it is ready. Once I have the approval from various people I trust, it will be out for 0.99

Until then, I have recently registered for Godaddy.com Mythicblood.com and .ca are now registered to me! That’s right. I have their rights now and will begin the website as soon as I can and figure out what can be done with the website for readers and thoughts interested in the series. Until then, I hope this update will suffice.

On a side note. I had reconnected with an old friend of mine from high school, a good friend who helped me out by filling in for another last moment. We went to a concert in Toronto. Music as a weapon, featuring Disturbed and Korn. Throughout the day, I learned more of him and found out why I couldn’t have connected with him over the years.

For a while, I had been feeling sorry for myself. I felt trapped in a job I held and still hold for 8 years and counting. I still lived at home with my parents despite the fact I am nearing 27 years of age… yes you read right. I felt I didn’t have anything to show for my life in that time. Nothing at all.

Until I started talking with him. My dear friend, full of wonderful music talent and songs that would send chills down your spine. After high school, I learned he was kicked out. For a while, he slept in a park, and had been on the move for a while until he came to settle in Hamilton.

He had gone through hell and back, and yet wasn’t bitter from it. I couldn’t believe that after all he had gone through, and how I felt sorry for myself for still having a roof over my head and food at my fingertips.

Just recently, I learned he was going back out into the world. Leaving his home in Hamilton and explore the world. Why? I don’t know, but just by hearing of his travel plans it sounds much like he is retracing his steps. Knowing where to is, is knowing where you have been.

As much as I would want him to stay, his mind was made up. I wanted to be there for his good-bye party, but the distance to travel was beyond that I could afford or anyone be willing to drive me to. No matter though, I know he will come back. We are always destined to meet the people who have touched our lives again.

Well, I will hold off on this for now. Tomorrow I will sit down and write out about my adventure in Texas. Until then, thank you for reading, and I hope to see you again soon.