The Great American Novel

I've made a decision.  It may take me fourteen years (or longer), but I am going to write a book.  Contrary to the title of this post, I actually do not intend to attempt to write The Great American Novel.  But, I think I can write a better book than some of them I've read lately and some that I've read about lately.  I've been reading blog posts about some books (these posts included excepts from the books) that are so poorly written as to seem to be written by a sixth grader.  I can write better than that in my sleep!  However, I do admit, I have not written anything and these persons have, so I really  should not be so critical.  But, I'm going to try anyway.

Like I said, it may take me a really, really long time, but I'm going to try to write a book.  I've always been okay at short stories, but I've never attempted anything longer.  So, here goes.

I'm going to start with a goal of a chapter per month, but I'll probably be a lot more flexible than that as I figure out how to write and edit and proofread and everything else!  Plus, I have other projects that need my attention, so I will be limited in the time I can write.

I know that no one reads this blog anymore, so it's more just for me, but I am going to try to post some of the scenes from the project, just in case anyone does read it.  Hopefully, I can trust my readership (if I ever get any) to tell me if it's complete dreck or if it's readable!

Game of Thrones

Anyone reading this series?  Anyone have a clue as to when the 6th book will be out?  I read the first 5 before I realized that the series wasn't finished!  I hate when I do that :).

I'm planning to reread them this spring, to see what I missed the first time in light of a few fan theories I've read about - I'm curious what evidence there is for (spoiler alert): the theory that Jon Snow is actually the son of Lyanna and/or Robert!

We watched the first episode of the HBO series, but I think it's a bit too graphic for me - although, the story stuck right to the book it seemed (as far as I remember the book), so that part of it was pretty good.

It's been a minute

Wowsers has it been long since I've posted anything on this blog!  For awhile now, I've been considering starting this sucker up again, and since the children are down for a nap (though they'll be up soon), I thought today would be a good day for it.  I highly doubt anyone reads this anymore, but on the off chance anyone does, I'll do a short update on life which would be why I haven't posted in 5 1/2 years!!!

Since my last post - I started a job at a law firm, visited Egypt and Turkey, had a child, quit my job, because a stay at home mom, had a second child, lost a lot of sleep since she's 5 months old and hasn't started sleeping through the night yet, and then, unsurpisingly, we're at 2013 already!  January would have been better, but I'll make it my February resolution to make at least one blog post per week :).  And, I promise not too many pictures of the adorable children I have ;).

So, as to what prompted this resurgence - I have found a few entertaining, well written blogs and so I was inspired to restart.  Who knows, maybe this time I'll even find a theme to stick with for awhile and actually entertain someone with the blog posts!  One can always hope!

More likely, it'll just be more randomness like before.

I came back to add something quickly - since my last post, Blogger has changed (in some ways, drastically!), so, please be patient with me as I sort through how to use it!  Thanks in advance ;)