In the immortal words of Bender the robot from Futurama “I’M BACK BABY!” Things are finally settling down from our recent move from Santa Cruz to the Monterey Bay Area. Both my wife and I have started up with more classes. She is going to a university, while I’m still studying at a local community college and looking for work. I’ve been getting applications put in but little response so far. But hey, at least I’m trying.
In the meantime I’ve been making some serious headway on my 2nd novel “THE SHIP”. Things had ground to a halt on that front even before we started the move. I kept finding myself going back to one particular scene I’d done about a third of the way into the story. Something about it kept nagging at me and I had to keep going back and looking at it. It was a good scene with plenty of action and even some serious foreshadowing of things to be revealed later in the story. But there was still something not quite right about it and I just couldn’t get myself to work on the rest of the story because of it. Eventually I realized I was having a strange type of writer’s block that I dubbed “STEALTH WRITER’S BLOCK” in my other blog. It was so subtle I hadn’t realized what was happening and that it had brought my whole project to a grinding halt. However, I finally broke through it in the last few days. I realized as good as the scene was there was more I could do to it in order to really help the overall story along. Better foreshadowing along with an important glimpse into Cassandra’s family history, that will play a major role not only in this novel but the next one as well. I’ll probably post a section of this rewritten scene here in my next entry. I don’t want to make this entry too long.
I’ve also been working on my Vlog a bit more and have decided to open up a bit more about myself to all of you in it. Sometimes talking or showing is easier than writing. I’ve got several videos planned out, one of which will be a sort of tribute to one of my favorite types of film, the silent comedies from the early 1910’s-1920’s. Another will be about settling into my new place and getting acquainted with the area a bit. While the third one will go deeper into how I create and develop characters for my novels.
So stay tuned for those. And as I mentioned before, I’ll also be posting more of my 2nd book here very shortly. Thanks for reading and take care. I’ll be back with more soon.
Musings Of Two Creative Minds 