Ideas

When I get pissed off, it's really hard for me to be objective. I think the mission of this, my Jesus year, is to find ways to look at situations and not project my anger on them. Doing that can be exhausting, as I learned today, but it worked, and by the end of the day, I was fine.

I think 2008 will be about change for me, maybe big changes that I've been putting aside out of fear. The books will be the beginning of that. Speaking of books, the short story collection has an official title now: Dark Entries. Here's the current status of the collection:

Completed stories:
Turnover
The Whole Price of Blood
Hatchet Job Blues

Stories in Process:
Hungry
Bites
Cola Wars
Blackbirds
possibly a Babette story

To get to 10, I'll have to come up with 2 more.

As for the novel, I'm having an awful bout of writer's block, which I'm hoping the stories will loosen up. I'm near the climax, and I just need to touch a few story points to get there.

I also dowloaded a free screenwriting program, so I'm going to try my hand at that, after I download a few and get a feel for the format. The story Bites lends itself to a script, so I think I will adapt it as my first effort.

In glorious news: disgraced, corrupt Congressman John Doolittle, a known ASSHOLE, is retiring (since he'll most likely be indicted soon), maybe paving the way for Placer county to send a (gasp) Democrat to Congress in 08! Go Charlie Brown!!