Keeping it honest to your audience

I read a post from an author whose name escapes me right now, but he was talking about your audience.  He essentially taught me that, to write to them.  Your subject matter can be anything, but you've got use a tone for your audience and knowing it was just as important.  My teachers in school always made the audience seem less important, like you were suppose to write for everyone.  I think I've gotten that idea wrong, now of course I need a new plan.  I wish I had read that, before I entered my piece for the competition I entered...I could have helped me. I guess that is the learning curve.

I think that perhaps in my case with my character, I've jumped across the map, as far as he goes...I've said that before...now I need to look closer at him, and make him act his age...not older...that is definately going to be tough, but it sure will make for a good challange, I look forward to it.  Which I guess you can tell, I'm not going to change him to an older age...I'm just going to de-age (is that a word??) in certain parts.

One thing is for sure, I am a long way off on being done.

All for now....Later

Slowing down

At least in my writing...its just that I love this christmas season.  I don't know if I will work on my book three days a week...probably more like two or one.  It just depends.  Also, work has gotten long, real long. It is a rough time, we have a lot to do, so my hours may go up, I might be skipping lunches.  We just have so many goals to meet in the next few weeks that saying we are everwhelmed is a kind of uderstatement.

So anyway work has been crazy...but who cares...

When I first started on my book, it wasn't supposed to be as big as it is...I think I might have mentioned that before...anyway, I was working on it, just trying to read it..and it seems I have made the primary character a bit older then he is supposed to be.  So I may have to do somethings ot make him seem like he is younger then what I have written...I think perhaps maybe I could change his age...well I will have to give that a bit more thought.

Well, more to come on that a bit later.

Later

Thanksgiving

Well it was amazing.  My family have a lot of leftovers, that I don't know if we can eat all of it.  I love Turkey. I guess I had quite the full belly...but that is okay...I mean really what the point is eating if you aren't going to a bit sick.  Okay maybe not always but yesterday that was the case.

Other then that, I have totally fnished my piece for the competion.  Well at least I think I have...I just need to make sure I've got all my periods in the right place, and T' crossed and I's dotted.  I don't expect to win, but I want whomever judges these things to at least take my entry seriously.  Well I'm going to look it over one more time tomorrow and then if I think its good, I'll submit it.

My Book has taken a back seat to that this week. I know that goes against my regular schedule but, this week, my main project has been my competion piece.

Well wish me luck...later.

Little Progress

Well, Its been a minute or two...or a few days since my last post...so what...i've been busy...kind of.  Work has been easy, but at home...yeah that too.  For some reason, probably because I turned 30 this week...I've been relaxing a lot.

Thanksgiving is this week, good.  I think many of us need to thank Jesus for our lives...give him the credit he deserves and enjoy life a bit more.

So anyway, I've my competion piece is nearly done, hopefull by Sunday...I've yet to title the story...noramlly I find that to be easy...but this time I can't...I think I'll let my wife help me with that.  I wonder why this particular thing was difficult to title? I guess it doesn't matter, It just puzzles me why this was harder then normal.

My book continues to grow in my mind...ever wonder how we physically can keep up with us mentally...I mean my head is like none stop going all the time...its been that way with my book.  That has been somewhat problematic in that, some of my new ideas, don't mesh with the overall concept of the book...troubling...yet exctiting...I like playing around with it.

Well it was good to get back and post.

Later.

Late night week's

Well a stomach illness has crashed my party!  As I said in my profile, I have four children.  And sometime this past weekend some kind of stomach thingy went around from three of the kids, and it even got to my wife a little bit.

Well, like I said, it crashed my party for writing this week.  It made my work hard too.  I don't know how productive I was but, I couldn't have been that bad...I'm still employed.

However the extra time I spent cuddling, got my mind going for ideas...I've got a great one, that I will do an outline for this weekend. After that it might sit a while, and get very little attention, until I get my book done.  This is one of those weeks where I was really wishing I was doing this full time.

So I won't let life throw me off anymore this week, I've got some sleeping babies...and I've got a book to work on. So there I go.

Later

Break Through

No not just a break through a major break through. Well I've finally let go of noise in my head.  I guess I could call it noise...it was one way or another...well, I finally shut it all off. I got back into my character and I let the events play themselves out...it nothing short of a miracle in my mind. 

Well maybe not a miracle in the same sense the Chliean Minors experienced, but still was a miracle to me.  Yet one more reason I love serving my Lord.  Anyway, I am thankful to God for this past week or maybe even two weeks of pure blockage.  I give Him the thanks, for my little valley...of course that valley may not be the same as someone who is suffering from a terminal illness...but yet that was a valley for me.

So I close with this.

Thank you Jesus for all you do!

Later

Good week, good TV...Great elections

I've had a good week. I've not made a lot of progress on my book, but  my schedule I've kept in working on it on Mon, Tues and Wed's has been a great blessing. Just trying to zone out everything in mind except that one thing...huge.  I've been opting to do a bit of double work on both the book and the piece I'm writing for entry into a competition, I like what I wrote for it, it is overall kind of funny, I think most people would laugh at it. The joke doesn't really show up until the end, so the beginning as a measure of suspense. My wife thought it was rather clever.  So that is encouraging.

The book has not picked up much steam. I reached a point in the original draft which was the end.  I was lost on where to go from here...I need to do something to help me out...maybe more relaxing? I don't know we'll see.
Well I just want to comment that I've been watching a lot of the show Smallville...its a show I've been a fan of for a long time, really since it came out.  Now in its final season, I want to say, it is just great...I know that has nothing to do with this, but I like the show much, I needed to comment just a bit.

Wow I can tell i haven't posted in a minute...I want to close with a big fat thank you to anyone who voted out a democrat.  I think our federal government needed more balance, and I won't say much more then that...so thanks if you've got a brain, and did the right thing.

All for now....Later