Back in action...so to speak.

Well, I'm back. This site is a lot of fun when I have it running...for me, at least...so I think it's time to get back at it. I'm considering change the structure a bit and would appreciate your ideas. The poll to the right will help get you started, but you should feel free to email or comment here if you have ideas not expressed adequately over there. Thanks for stopping by...I hope to give you reasons to continue to do so sooner rather than later.

Mike

NaNoWriMo, Post 1

For the information of all hands, I typed 745 words last night. Given all that I have going on, I'm frankly surprised I managed even that. I must admit that I found myself second guessing and rewriting at times. I know I shouldn't, but it's a hard habit to break. Even as a child, I never wrote drafts. I just wrote it right---or right enough---the first time. Such is not the case here. I need to adjust. But, no doubt, I am serving my purpose already. Congrats to those of you ahead of me...which had better be all of you.

And so begins a new blog...

Hey everybody...which, to my knowledge, includes about 6 people...I have decided to, at least temporarily, change the structure of this blog. I have varied reasons for this, but the main one is that everything in my life seems to eventually sacrifice itself for my studies and this blog is no exception. I intend to get back to it as soon as feasible, though I cannot guarantee that it will look the same as before. A secondary point is that I, like all of you it seems, have decided to attempt to write a novel in November.

Let me, however, be clear about this. I make no commitment to finishing and I have absolutely no illusions about my ability to do anything beyond typing occasionally coherent sentences. I am doing this for exactly one reason: because my friend asked me to do so. As far as I can tell, my only purpose will be to serve as the perennial "at least I'm not as far behind as Mike" example for this exercise. And I'm happy to oblige.

At all events, I will make every effort to maintain the requisite pace and I will dutifully post my word count here in order to serve my purpose effectively. Good luck to all of you. I sincerely hope that everyone gets out of this what they want...or at least what they need. Don't be surprised if you see a lot of matrices and differential equations swimming around in my first draft.

Mike 2

Post 5.7

For a while, at least, this will be the last entry dealing with quotes as the previous entries have done so. I hope I've done the words I've so shamelessly used here some justice. But, in all likelihood, nothing I do could compare with them. I guess that's why I used them.

1. Theme: Angels in film, Films: City of Angels, The Prophecy, The Prophecy II, It's A Wonderful Life, Defending Your Life, Heaven Can Wait
2. Theme: Winning, Authors: Vince Lombardi, Diane de Pointiers, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Arthur Ashe, Leo Durocher, Arnold Schwarzenegger
3. Author: Stephen King
4. Author: Ernest Hemingway
5. Author: President George W. Bush

Any surprises?

Post 5.6

Sorry about being so late this weekend. I'm in Colorado...traveled by train and so slept late and didn't have internet access until now. I'm headed back this evening, arriving tomorrow...so I might be late again. I think I'll take care of revealing the authors/themes tomorrow (Monday) if necessary. Here's your daily dose:

1. Angels have no philosophy but love.
2. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
3. Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
4. I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
5. A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

Discuss.