Moving Forward

My blog lingers out in cyber-space and I actually feel sort of bad I do not post more often. I wrote that poem earlier today about my recent roommate troubles. The extent of the troubles ends with 'I no longer have a roommate'. River, my cat, and I once again live alone in this apartment. River seems fine with it. She lays next to me in the couch in the living room and purrs wildly. She still rushes up to whatever wandering soul crosses my doorway into my kitchen. I just sit here and do homework.

I have worked on a few different things since my last post. Tomorrow marks the first day on my new novel. My boss and I plan to write a novel throughout the month of February and March. We beginning at midnight tonight, and will finish on the 31st of March. It gives us roughly 60 days. We write almost 900 words a day, and will have 50,000 words by the end of March. That end of March is my old roommates wedding and the next time I will see my parents, it would nice to have something to show to them.

I started work on a journal dictating the characters and some situations in which the characters may interact. I want to write an Urban Fantasy novel dealing with mages and vampires. The idea resonates in my mind, but I think I will have troubles actually starting it. The beginning always feels like the hardest part. You must establish these characters as honest-to-God people and not just open representations of me as a writer.

Sometimes, I think I wrote better characters growing up in LaBolt. In retrospect, the characters I role played online had a ferocity that I no longer have. I sometimes feel that when I role play now that all my characters blend together. To me, they all look the same instead of different people standing on their own two feet. I wonder why that is... and more importantly, I wonder how I can change that?

Well, I do not really have much else to say. I just wanted to give people an update on my very boring life. Now, I head back to math homework, or reading a few comics. Then it's bed, and work.