In case you're wondering . . .

Sorry for the lack of up-dates recently, folks. I've had a lot going in my "real life" preventing much of . . . well, anything. My writing these days is sparatic at best, between seeing Tricia and working. Any downtime I get is spent either attending to wedding business and/or just . . . being . . . lazy. Sorry to say.

I've been doing some reading lately, trying to wrap up some books that have been sitting around. One is my re-read of The Dark Tower, which should be finished in the next week or so. Another is a Star Trek novel. I've lost faith in the Trek novels over the past year or so, but I've kinda been talked into giving them another shot. We'll see.

Nothing else, really, has caught my eye lately. I finished All The Sad Young Literary Men, which was unenjoyable until the last 3-4 chapters. I've never seen so much freakin' angst over someone not being able to find a parking space. Seriously. The last 3-4 chapters are vast improvements over the rest of the book, but despite the up-lifting ending, it just wasn't worth the crap. And on top of it, the "happy ending" just seemed so against the grain of the book itself. It's just out of place.

Now that I've ranted about that, I'm sure you're wondering what I have been writing. I mean, I don't write nearly as much as I used to, but I've been working on one project or another since I was 13. There's never been a break, really.

My whole Todd and Kelly story has kinda . . . gone off course? I don't know. It's hard to explain. I love the characters. Absolutely love them. But the story itself is just kinda . . . blah. Blah blah. I don't know. We'll see, I guess.

I'm working on a story now that's a little surprising. It's based on some of my most beloved creations. In middle school and high school, I had this group of super-heroes called the Reality Corps. I had written them into a story called "The New Era." Throughut those tenative years, I re-wrote "The New Era" four times. However, since then, every attempt at re-writing "The New Era" has proven nigh-impossible. Recently, I had a bizzare fit of inspiration where I started writing the Reality Corps in a non-"New Era" story. I equate it with "All-Star Superman," actually. Light on continunity, heavy on mythology. We'll where this goes, though.

I had some other stories. Short stories, taking place in the "Todd and Kelly"-verse. I've kinda taken a break from those as they seemed too forced to me. I'm more than certain that I'll have more tales to tell from that corner of my creative room.

Finally, I have another project I'm working on, but I'm having a helluva time with it. More details when it's done.

In the meantime, I'll up-date this blog when I can. I'm more that certain you'll see more up-dates post-Honeymoon in October.