The prologue

The weather has turned muggy and hot on us. It makes for uncomfortable nights. And, since I live near a swamp, the frogs have taken to nightly choruses - a strange lullaby to be sure.

But on to novel news!

Twelve pages fell before my mighty pen this weekend. Since my goal is one page a day, I consider ten pages a gold mine! Most of the prologue was rewritten. I will let those pages sit a day or two to fester and then I will polish them off before sending them to my reading editors. They will give them a look over and then another rewrite before I release them for public consumption. But I don't forsee that taking too long. But as I said I would hopefully release the prologue this weekend for my readers, I will instead release my prologue of my prologue. It is the first sentence. Because I am pretty sure it will not change.

"The death of God took longer than Agitar expected."

Make what you will of it. Of course, it is a teaser, makes you think all sorts of things, and most of them are probably false. I promise I will get the full prologue out as soon as possible.

For all you writers out there struggling with writer's block, or even you souls with something on your mind, here's my advice. A good run or a walk. Give your body something to do while your mind works out it's problems, or as in my case, unfurls my imagination. I like running because I am too busy to worry about fear and all those thoughts that I'm no good, no one will like the story, it pointless! Instead, I just let the characters do their thing in my mind. Words and lines and dialogue come more often than not.

I always count it a blessing when I write well. I feel lucky to be able to do something that I love. All in all, this weekend went well.

And a quote of mine, "Mankind seeks and admires the wild in nature because it has lost the wild in himself." SC

Furry pickles

An interesting new development in my personal life. We had five new pug puppies yesterday morning. They are little tots, about the size of a small pickle. Four males and one female. Wow! All the males are quite little buggers; they hardly cry at all. The female, on the other hand, cries non-stop. Go figure. It's always nice to have a litter of puppies, but they aren't too much fun until about a month in. That is when they really start to get a personality, and when they look their cutest.

In writing news, I am nearing the end of another chapter in my novel. Hopefully, I will be posting my prologue this weekend, so check back for that. As always any comments on it are appreciated.

Another blogger, TheRealGoalGetter, took and republished one of my articles on his blog (originally published at ezinearticles which allows reprints). Nice to know others appreciate your writing well enough to share it with others. You can find that article, "Fishing and Life: Eight Similarities on my website here.

My first post and another article

All things must start somewhere. This is the start of my blog. Hopefully it will be good start.

I am not usually a political thinker - actually, I never like to talk politics. But then I did! My latest article, "Civilization and Laziness," is a bit of a rant about the current state of things. I don't like talking politics, because things always seem to go wrong. People take sides, words are bandied about, feeling get hurt. But I think there are several good points to the article and I felt they needed to be brought up so I wrote the article. Check it out at my website.

Wrote several more pages of my novel today. Creeping back up to two hundred now after several "cuts." I am also working on finishing the prologue and posting it as a pdf file for readers to peruse and get excited about the whole novel.

I have also begun development on the latest stage of my publishing career: Golden Acorn Press. The logo is in the works and the site will soon be up. Stay tuned.

And as always a tidbit quote of my own. "The perceptions and feelings brought on by a sight are those that the mind finds a haven or mystery in." SC August 1997