A Little Rant on my Inner Creative Spirit

The 15 traits of Creativity: http://tumblr.com/ZLJYSy

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Good books Never Go Out of Style

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As a Young Kid…

…I read lots of comic books, the Bible, all of Ray Bradbury’s works, Isaac Asimov’s and Robert Heinlein's stuff too. I excelled in sciences in school. Then,  moving into teen years I began graduating off SciFi and gravitating to  James Michener's fiction, reading of all his books before college, where I discovered classics like Anthem, Gone With the Wind, Crime and Punishment, The Iliad and the Odyssey and more. Post baccalaureate favorites  lead at that time to everything by John Saul,  Steven  King and eventually Jean Auel, then next  a growing  fascination and penchant for books detailing ancient Greek history, the history of medicine and Egyptology too. But by far, I was inspired to write at a very early age when my parents let me stay up with them to watch the  Scifi thriller “The Day The Earth Stood Still” on Black & White TV when I was about seven years old. After that I dreamed of writing a science fiction space travelling adventure book for years,  though  my current thrust is based  on events occurring in the summer of 1965 when I kept a diary based on the relationship some childhood friends and I  cultivated with a poor homeless vagrant soul, now  leading to my penning in process of The Legend of the Game Preserve Bridge Road.

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I am…

... really needing to put an extensive  BIO up on this blog,  as that's one thing I intended, but  this will  suffice for just  a little  while longer.

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2011 NaNoWriMo Winner!

I really struggled with this year's work; and I absolutely, positively  only had 30 minutes left  before midnight to update my word count on the site to record my 52,295 words written  in this November on The Legend of the Game Preserve Road Bridge, thereby exceeding the  objective for the month for this year's contest and becoming a winner the third year in a row! I'm so psyched!

Although I have another major edit in front of me again for the upcoming Spring of 2012 - this feels great! And I've now proven to myself for the  third time that I can crank out a novel in a month's time with the  hard work and effort.

It's Normal to Take A While

2011 NaNoWriMo Goes Down to the Wire Again!

Damn, third straight year I need to crank out 5,000 words before midnight tonight;  this time  to complete cranking out  The Legend of  the Game Preserve Road  Bridge on time.

Four Days Past the 3rd Anniversary of my very First NaNoWriMo

I'm in a (hopefully) final  edit of Scrambled Brains - which  I've suspended working on for now.  This new project is right on time and I needed the break from editing, yet  now I'm feeling a little  that a synopsis of  the work reflects the  adage:  "I took a Deep Breath and Let it go". Of course, I suppose too that could depend on your interpretation of "it".
Tonight after dinner I need to write 5,000 words  detailing the Hobo's heritage and then to update  my NaNoWriMo word count for  The Legend of the  Game Preserve Bridge Road by tomorrow morning. I also need tonight to soon post an update here of what The Legend of the  Game Preserve Bridge Road is about. Of course,  for that though I suppose you  could always look at  my NaNoWriMo page

Proper Punctuation is Power

Mrs. Elder,  my 1974 college English professor,  encouraged me to write better. On the first day of English 201 at Montgomery College,  she started class by writing these words  on the blackboard:

"A woman without her man is nothing"

Our  in-class writing assignment was "to punctuate it correctly".

Most the males in the class wrote: "A woman, without her man, is nothing."

All the females in the class wrote: "A woman: without her, man is nothing."

True story!

NaNoWriMo 2011

My  third year,  third  November, third  novel:  "The Legend of the Game Preserve Road Bridge" -  off to a galloping  great  gain by  exceeding  6,000 words written since yesterday in heading  toward  the holy grail goal of 50,000 by the end of  the month.