Stress! Stress! Stress!

I've been sitting here for half an hour starting and restarting this blog.

Blogging + A Foul Mood = No Blog Ideas

I'm just going to blog about work like I usually do on here and then go do stuff.

Well I have given myself another week to officially finish the first novel of the Princosa series. And I mean finish, finish as in proof read and everything. Then it shall be off to an agent. Yippee! Gone forever! I don't know whether to be happy or sad about that. Aw well...there is always the sequel. But yeah I'm going to do a lot of work tonight once I get my bedroom organised. I need to resort my library and everything, which I am kinda looking forward too which is a little sad.

Oh! And I received this wonderful piece of artwork from HAPPYWISE in Indonesia of Kitsune from my shorts series.


The first ever piece of "fan art" drawn of one of my characters! It really brightened up my dreadful day. I dont care if it is big headed of me to post about it on my blog. It made me happy and I dont care.

R.

In a Real Writing Mood

Moments ago I finished writing an entry in my dairy, a real life collection of my thoughts, thoughts that I dare not expressed in any of my blogs. Mainly it is a collection of my moanings, my complaints about the world around as well as the people who inhabit my world, though small it maybe. Writing in this journal has re-sparked my love of writing, as my concentration lately has been lacking. I guess all I needed was inspiration. Funny the inspiration that you can find in your everyday life. Am I so vain that I must write about my own life continuously? Or is it writing that I am addicted too? I seem to have this constant need to write, to scribble down everything and anything that pops into my head, whether that be fictional or a part of my day to day existence. I guess it is the writing. In fact that is probably my true addiction, not caffeine, not chocolate, but writing.

So Much Work To Do!

I have been procrastinating so much lately. Actually I am procrastinating as I speak.

At the moment I am working on several notebooks documenting the history of Princosa(TM) but I have been getting distracted so easily. You see this is a problem, as I am unable to start the redraft of my current novel until I am finished the more detailed history notes. I cant keep this history in my head any more, that is why I am writing it down. If I keep it in my head much longer it will keep getting changed and mashed up with every time I think about it. I really have to get this novel finished it is unprofessional of me to keep messing around. Also I have promised some selected fans the first 5 chapters of this novel before I send it to the publishers. Of course the manuscripts that they will be getting will be trademarked, copyrighted, etc. I really must get this finished for them.

On top of that I still have university work to do and exams coming up in May. I sometimes wish that my life was not so hectic. Either be a student or a writer, not both, but then again I don't like doing just the one thing. I am happiest when I am busy and hopefully tomorrow, though it be Easter, I will get plenty of work done with the free time that I have. Maybe get some programming and my novel history done.

Why some books just suck

These books aren’t in any particular order I am just writing them down as their suckyness popped into my head.




• Twilight: Where do I start? Bad plot, grammar mistakes in the published novel, bland characters, not to mention targeted towards girls who are obviously not ready to understand the emotional side of the story. I agree with Stephan King on this one its horrible.



• The Vampire Chronicles: I am not hating on all of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles but anything after The Vampire Lestat is boring. Fair play to Rice in the amount of historical research that she puts into her novels but if I wanted a history lesson I would buy a history book. Rice's novels are amazingly detailed and researched but she needs to spend more time on the plot. One of her novels Pandora I was really looking forward to reading, I read the summary online and the blurb of the novel in the book store sadly though the blurb was more interesting than the actual story. The fact that there are two vampire series' on this list is the reason why I stick to Dracula.



• Mariah Mundi: The Midas Box: The language alone ruined this novel for me; it was too rigid there was no flow to the words on the pages at all. I am not nit picking. What was I expecting from a book that I bought from a pound shop? There is a difference between "The cat sat on the mat" and "the cat was curled comfortably upon the soft rug purring happily as it was warmed by the flickering flame of the fireplace". The difference? Atmosphere, this book seriously needs some.



• Cujo: There are very few King stories that I dislike. Sadly in Cujo's case the scariest part of Cujo was in the first or second chapters. The beginning of the novel was brilliant and scary but after that it just slowed down. If a book starts frightening it is exhilarating but if the rest of the novel doesn’t deliver it is just a disappointment.



• 1408: I never thought it was possible for a movie to be better than the short story. That is all I have to say on that one.