Second Draft

After a few months and one hundred and six thousand words, the novel’s second draft is done and all I have to say is…its a relief but at the same time its scary. I looked over some of the stuff needed for the query letter and all of that and its hard to believe what you have to do. Really gotta sell yourself, but it has to be done.

Sleep

I can’t seem to get enough of it right now, I am always tired, always ready for bed and fighting to stay awake. I don’t know what to do or why this would be going on. But I know for right now, I’m going to sleep.

Juxtaposition

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Romania

I have a sneaking suspicion they have some kind of pretty people breeding program over there…

The C-Word

The word clitoris may or may not appear in my novel, apparently some people have caught wind of this and are kind of shocked. Is it really that big a deal?

Novelist

For the first time I feel like a novelist, despite not having one sale to my name and having nothing more than a few scraps here and there published. I have finally hit the 90,000 word mark on something again and it feels like its been a long time coming. I didn’t believe that this novel, the first of a series and my first serious one, had the power to go this far.

I can’t stay long, work to do and much to finish up before I can finally put this thing to rest. I need to work on my editing and re-editing of this thing to make it complete. 

Why Does Everyone Want You When You’re Gone

I’ve got friends asking me to move in with them…I have people I haven’t talked to or taken interest in for YEARS acting as if we’re all buddy buddy suddenly and treating me like their best chum.

Why is it when you’re not around, people suddenly want you back, or when you’re not available. When I lived near these people I didn’t hang out with them because they never called and I stopped calling. All of a sudden I’m hot shit, I’m Tickle Me Elmo or Pokemon Cards.

I can’t move back to San Antonio, it feels like a dead dream. That city was once what I wanted and I could have probably settled down there for a while—at least that me could have. But I cast that person out, bled all of that blood away and there’s a new determination burning inside of me that knows if I go back to San Antonio this fire will burn out.

Scott Pilgrim Premiere

Finally, Scott Pilgrim came out and I rushed right out to see it. Great movie, really hilarious and perfectly crafted for those with nerdy thoughts and tendencies. The only problem…the audience. I’ve never been with a more obnoxiously loud group of people in my life. I went alone so it’s not like I had anyone to talk to really—ran into someone I knew but barely spoke to them.

Movies like this always make me think how much is too much to go through for someone you really love. I don’t think there’s really an answer and anyone who baits someone along with “if you love me you would…” is really just trouble.

I finished This Present Darkness today. Pretty good book, although outdated in some ways. I’m glad that I got done with it though, I always feel great when I finish a book. It’s like an uplifting accomplishment feeling.

Florida

Well I am back and I wanted to kick this month off with a picture post from Florida.

I didn’t say anything while away really because I was thinking about the same thing the whole time. More on that later.

Proof it rains there

Downtown Disney

A crazy upside down building

McDonalds'

Our second Hotel view

Destin Beach

Alabama’s underwater tunnel.