Last week saw . . . well, I really didn’t have much of a plan last week. I wanted to relax and get a little outlining done. Book 8 is now in a position where I can pounce on it once the upcoming events are over. This includes birthday, Passover, and toddler’s spring break. I see that April will always be a rough month for book writing. Still, I can slip some editing and outlining into my days.
I’ll admit that part of the issue is that I got hung up on outlining the possible story of ‘Quest of the Broken Hearted’. Maybe thinking about it, finishing the Kira-heavy Book 7, and finding one of the games responsible for its inception caused it. I should be finishing that up tonight since it’s rather simplistic and shorter compared to Legends of Windemere. I don’t have a vast amount of subplots to handle or a series to plan off of it. This is making me think Legends of Windemere will be the most complicated series I write. There are so many characters, ongoing subplots, foreshadowing, and alternate paths that I need to check older books and notes every day. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing.
This is going to be an odd week due to the birthday on Wednesday and an important meeting on Tuesday. Monday and Friday are the only days I don’t have plans. Well, I technically have nothing planned for Wednesday. Not sure if anyone is planning something for that. Probably a cake. Anyway, I do plan on trying an entertaining game that will start today this afternoon and be used as posts starting a week from Monday. I’ll call it ‘Monster Maker Lab’ or something like that. Hope people help make that fun.
Here are the goals of the week:
- Cake.
- Captain America 2 matinee and lunch on Thursday.
- Cleaning for Passover. (Not a fun goal.)
- Continue and finish outline for Quest of the Broken Hearted. Also find out if I need a ‘-‘ between Broken and Hearted.
- Continue preparing story lines for The Elysium Saga.
- Catch some Z’s.
- Consume enough food to remain functional.
- Chaos in NYC with Greg on Saturday.
- Crush my enemies beneath my feet. (Also known as biking.)
- Cowboy Bebop or Samurai Champloo?
Legends of Windemere 
Good to see you have your priorities straight. Number 1 – Cake. 😀
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Fingers crossed that I get it. Might not happen on my actual birthday.
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Charles, I haven’t hgad the chance to tell you that I have enjoyed these informal journal entrys about what you are doing and about writing. I have been doing the same thing in place of the commentary on Quote for a Day. I have never felt comfotable about keeping a journal–talking to myself seems silly, but I can understand hw doing it as a post allows you to get your thoughts together and I have found more and more readers are turning to them because I’m writing about what I do as an artist and what it is like. I have learned much about all that just by verbalizing to but having to have it make sense to other people especially those who don’t write as an art form as we do. >KB
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Thanks. I was never big into journals and would always lose focus. This helps me evaluate what I did the previous week and plan for the next week. I’m finding that I prefer the more informal posts when blogging. Very laid back and relaxing for me.
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My feeling is that readers enjoy and want to know more about people and their creative thoughts and machinations are–how they write, how they think about writing. There are so many novices out there that are truely and genuinely interested not to mention those that don’t write and just are fascinated how a writer’s mind works. >KB
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Basically, a peek behind the curtain?
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I am pulling the curtain away. I feel people do not understand poetry the way they should. I try to make it a real thing. >KB
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Poetry is a tough one. It’s open to so much interpretation that people tend to think it has no real meaning.
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That’s what I mean. The poetry I write has very clear meanings because I write for the reader . I want to show them the bones of what writing is. What is it like to construct a poem, what does it feel like to be engrossed in an art form, what makes a poem work. >KB
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That would be very interesting. I get a lot of visits off my posts that involve ‘how to’ stuff. I’ve never really seen it for poetry though.
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Crush my enemies under my feet. Perfect description of bike riding.
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It’s the plan for tomorrow. Added a mile and did some fencing practice yesterday. Killed my legs.
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Happy upcoming birthday! Glad you are getting some outside time. Wear a pollen mask.
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The pollen hasn’t been a problem so far. Hopefully that holds true.
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Just saw Captain America 2, and I thought it was one of the best of the whole Marvel franchise so far. Stick around through ALL of the credits.
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Thanks. I learned my lesson on Avengers when I missed the ending credits scene. Thought Thanos was it. Marvel definitely produces great movies, so I’m looking forward to it. Spent the weekend catching up with Thor 2 and re-watched Captain America and The Avengers.
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Happy Birthday for Wednesday!! Hope your day is fabulous and the following year even better! 🙂
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Thanks. Not going to have any real fun until Thursday and Saturday though.
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Oh well, it can be good to draw birthdays out where possible. 🙂
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If it helps, I have the same kinds of Aprils as you, so I’m embracing the chance to be one of the normals for a couple of weeks, I’ve departed on the first leg of a holiday trip with no computer, no editing kit and I’m not going to write anything… Although I might work on the outline for the next book.
Cheers
MTM
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That’s basically what I’m doing. Though, I just discovered that movie times on Thursday are terrible. Might have to sacrifice the decent lunch to see the movie.
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Enjoy the cake!!!! 😀
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Thanks. 🙂
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Happy pre-Birthday!! Cake – #1 where it should be! Can you please explain #10, I think I’m a bit lost on that one! lol
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They’re two Japanese characters that I own and was thinking of watching. Though I might go with something else. I just needed a ‘C’ to keep the theme going.
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Ahhhh…well you definitely kept the “C” going! lol
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It was an accident for the first 2 and I kept going. 😀
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