Ugly Week

I'm mad because I didn't get started on my episode of Ugly Fools earlier this week and now I have nothing to work with. I had held off until Saturday, but that didn't work out. I hate going places on Saturday it screws up everything. I had fun, which makes me mad stupid with a sweet does of inconsistancy. I wanted to write but I had so much fun that I didn't get home until I was ready to sleep. That didn't happen, though. My mind slept while I vegged out on a bit of TV and my addiction to documentaries on Netflix.

I didn't have time to write during the week. Maybe my issue is that I don't just do what I tell others to do, which is to set a timer and write every single day. I suck at stuff like scheduling. I'm also not great at being on time. I find things to do as I'm getting ready and they're all important things I need to do at that moment.

Ugly Fools won't be updated tonight. Along the lines of Ugly Fools I need to decide if I'm going to do all 9 in an episode or do the entire three character an episode until the fourth in the series of episodes and that one will have all 9. I sort of like that idea.

Nine characters presents its own kind of problem and that is 9 different personalities. I have to keep them straight and not confuse them. That's one reason why I decided to do this. It's another exercise for me to work on. I'll be creating an Ugly Fools Bible so that I can keep up with everything I writing.

It makes me sad when I don't get to write every single day. It makes me feel like a full person to write. Again, I'll have to do that timer thing. Even if (as I tell others) it's just for five minutes. I'm fearful of how long I'd go. I was never good with timers when my brothers and I used one to dictate when our turn was up when we played video games. None of us were. We always wanted to go a few more seconds. Which turned into minutes and then tattletaling. Good times.

As for Jeremiah Jericho: Forty Two, I'm really close to finishing the first draft. I did what I wanted with the section of writing last week, but I went a little overboard on the narration. I have to find a happy medium. I have plans to take Shawn and move him to the first book more.

The thing is, the more I write this second book the more I see what I need to have in the first and what I could possibly remove.

I had enough brain power to write this, but not enough to focus on Ugly Fools. Sad, but true.

MIA no more

I've been MIA because I was.

I've been writing and going to a writer's group, still. So I didn't stop writing. I only stopped blogging.

I've decided to start up again and right now I've decided to use I've a lot. How am I doing? Since my last blog I've come up with a lot of great ideas for Jeremiah Jericho. I wrote a good query for it and sent it to, I think, five agents. Four of them have sent back rejections. All of the rejections were expected. I wasn't disappointed in them not wanting it. I'm waiting for the final one, because that's the one I expect to say yes. It's not like one of those yes replies that I'm sure of. It's more of a hopeful yes. I hope she says yes. Or at least she says yes to reading a little more of my novel.

I've stopped writing movie reviews for a while, but I've not stopped writing I've. As one can see. Anyway, by not writing movie reviews I can see movies, complain about them in my head and write my novel. It works out for me.

Where am I at right now with Jeremiah Jericho? I'm fixing the formatting of the first book. Christopher and Jeffrey's dialogue. I'm also writing the second novel by the seat of my pants. I had a sketchy idea of where I wanted it to go, but based on how I've written it, it veered off course. A bad thing? I don't know. I think it's an okay thing (you should Google where OK started, it's pretty interesting...saw it in a movie).

Initially I wanted Jeremiah Jericho to be local. I didn't want him to venture off into the world. Mainly because I didn't want to have to dabble in research of places and such. But I allowed the story to control me and dictate where it wanted to go and I've ended up in places I've never visited. So I had to do a little research. It's not going to stop, either. It's become a world thing and it's annoying that's not what I wanted. I'm dealing with that realization. Sadly. It's not too bad, so that's good.

My friend created what Jeremiah Jericho would look like. I liked it, except for the long hair, but I got over that. It's pretty darn cool, I think.

I'm impressed, as I told him. I'm still in awe. It's just neat to see my character in drawn form. I've had other people draw him, but it's not as cool as having a friend do it.

That's where I'm at. It's late and I shouldn't have started this, but I thought I'd update it for fun. I don't know how many people read this, but if no one it's more like a writing diary of sorts.

Uh, Holden that Thought

I am reading “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger because someone told me that Jeremiah Jericho reminded them of Holden Caufield. I have heard about the book for years. I didn't have to read it when I was in high school and I don't think I'd appreciate it too much if I did. Right now I find it amusing and it fits. I'm writing Jeremiah Jericho with a pinch of me in him. And I can go off on tangents, so when I read that Holden does this, I feel in love with the book right away.

When people read what I have written and they dislike the tangents I don't edit them out. I might edit them down, but I won't remove them. There is character in each of the rants or tangents that happen with Jeremiah that if I remove them, his character might get lost in the voices of Christopher and Jeffrey.

Initially when I started “Jeremiah Jericho: Allowance” I wanted there to be only one voice: Christopher. As the story progressed and I decided to have Jeremiah as a reason for why someone committed suicide, I realized that Jeffrey could become an intricate part of the story itself. Which is how I like to write. I like to write with a bare bone idea of where the story is going and allow the story to flow out of me like people go through life. They don't have a writer directing their every move and even though my character does, he doesn't have to have me dictate everything. He can dictate some of what goes on. Only a writer can understand what I'm talking about there.

I understand he's not real, but when you write and your characters are speaking and acting and you think on the cuff of what they'd do, you're treating them as a real person. Giving them a life of their own without planning their every step. That's how I like to write. That's how Jeffrey came to be. If I didn't do that, it would be just Jeremiah and Christopher. I would feel that there was something missing.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I like Holden Caufield.

I am enjoying writing my second book that's part of this trilogy. I'm writing fresh thoughts and ideas down. I think that it's coming about well. You always have to give a lot of humor to soften the blow of a evil moment and right now I'm laying on the humor because Jeremiah is headed back to NYC to attend a funeral. It's going to be a powerful moment for him and his mother.

That is a bit of me in there. Humor it up before something sad or, even, during something sad. I'm always allowed to be angry, but I cannot stand others being angry. I have to make them laugh or feel better.

Better stop before another tangent jumps out of me.

Write your dreams. Dream your words. And may your soul inspire the ages.