Its been a long time

I have been considering adding to my blog for some time.  I bought an Ipad in May and it turns out, that has actually curtailed my writing quite a lot.  Without my computer at home (b/c I keep it work) I don't write nearly as much as I used too.  That is concerning b/c I like writing.

November is NaNoWriMo (national novel writing month).  I will be writing my 3rd novel next month.  I have some ideas about what it will be about, but nothing concrete.  My first novel (i use that term very loosely) was a book about the Devil coming to earth.  It focused on one person and how he became evil and the group of people who knew what was happening and trying to stop it.

The second book was a post-apocyptic story.  The story took place some 200 years from now, in a world decimated by wars.  The only remainig people live in a city surrounded by walls.  They are not allowed to leave.  Of course, there are some people who can get out.  The focus of the story is one man who is outside the walls and who has lived outside for some time.  He moves back inside when he hears that the only woman he loved has been captured.  I think this book and story were better than the first.  In reality, I need to spend some time reading adn editing them so I can decide if they are as bad as I think they are.

In any event, this book may be completely different then the others.   Who  knows.  The one thing that I have learned in the process of writing the previous books is the almost living nature of the novel.  To me, it is the ultimate creation b/c everything the writer creates everything.  Mood, look, story, romance, violence, tone of voice, integrity, etc.  It really is quite a process.  I think you also learn interesting thigns about yourself as you write a story that has a protagnoist that is likely based upon somebody that you know or might know (or even yourself).  On the other hand, it might be a story about somebody you would like to be.  I really enjoy it and I am looking forward to writing again.  Of course, I'll have to lug my computer around for 30 days, but its worth when, on November 30, I have finished my third novel (again, I use that term very loosely).

Finally, how about those Cardinals.  In the end don't they prove that we, the fan, know very little about what a team is feeling and what they will do.  I still remember August 24, the sweep by the dodgers was over (or about to be) and thinking that the season was over.  They looked like they quit and just did not care.  In a matter of weeks, they are one game from the World Series, possibly playing better than any other team.  Game 5 of the NLDS was fantastic (though it helped I was in New Orleans with my wife watching the  game on Bourbon Street).

I have begun the very important process of making sure my kids are cardinal fans.  I think its catching.

I hope to write more in the coming weeks, though November will be more slow b/c of the novel.  I will give updates (and maybe snippets) as the story begins to take shape.  Take care of yourself and others.

Be Easy

---cp