A Dark Story

Finally finished the GS insert chapter I was doing last night. Damn thing ended up at nearly 10k words, a good bit more than I thought it would be but I like what I got, so it stays. I even got in a few pages of line edits, which will hopefully go faster now that I'm done (again!) with inserts. I also managed to finish the read through/edit of "Fish" today. Now I remember why I put the damn thing aside! I left the MC at the climactic point of his childhood memories (they're flashbacks spaced throughout) wherein he is about to explain how/why he and his best friend murdered his older brother. (Told you this was a dark story.) I know why, and I know how, but they are both particularly brutal and stomach wrenching scenes that are going to take a lot of skill to write without coming off like slasher-fic. I need to get the brutality of it all across without the vulgarity (if that makes any sense). Not an easy task but I think my skills may have grown enough over the last six months to give it a try. I'll let you know how it goes.

Got the first Crit from Lee over on FM about my latest chapter. I have proven yet again that I am the Master-of-Run-On-Sentences! As I explained to her (coverng up for my bad writing habits!) I never look back at what I've written as I go, I just try to get as many thoughts on the paper as I can at a time, then go back and fix it in edits. You buying that? No? That's okay, I doubt she will either!

Busy night with the Scouts tonight; doing the whole Court of Honor thing. Don't think I'll get home early enough to do any writing and if I do I will probably just crash on the couch with the wife. The whole chilling-out & snuggling (crap, did I just say snuggle? Well, there goes my membership in the He-Man-Women Haters Club!) is definitely underated. I have learned it is one of the best ways (at least the pg-13 version) of keeping a marriage going strong. It's a very good thing. If you haven't done so with your significant other lately, stop reading this silly little blog & go do so right now!

I'm still exercising every day. It's gotten a lot easier on the muscles. Even when I push my number of reps until my muscles are quivering (Oh, that word!) I don't feel sore afterward. I think I will take that as a sign of progress! I have to actually, since the friggin' scale is not being kind to me at all. The damn thing says I gained two pounds last week. I am telling myself it's all the new muscle I'm developing (It is, it is! It really is!) but it was more than a tad dis-heartening when I climbed onto the scale and it decided to thumb its nose at me. (Accursed device!) There is definitely a lot of new muscle though and I am feeling good, so I'll just have to hope the weight will follow along with the program at some point.

One last thing today, for the writers amongst you . . . is it just me, or does it seem that there is more to the publishing industry than you could ever possibly understand? It seems that every time I think I have a handle on what I'll have to do when I'm published (note the positive thinking there!) I do a little more studying and find out there's more stuff I've never even considered. It's a bit intimidating, dont ya' think? Ah well, I'll worry about it when it happens I guess . . .

Later!