I'm the Worst Blogger Ever

I fancy myself a writer.  But maybe I shouldn't "fancy" myself a writer.  I should "casual" myself a writer.  Because apparently, I don't blog enough.  I should be blogging.  A lot.  And I'm not.  There's a lot of pressure when you have a blog.  You're expected to post to it.  Even when you have nothing really to say.  And to make matters worse, I'm supposed to be writing my blog when I'm busy writing other things.  Namely, a friggin' book!  I don't multitask.  I'm one of those who has to take on one project at a time.  I don't shift gears that easily.  Oh, sure, it's not really shifting gears when you go from writing a book to writing a blog.  You're still writing.  But notice I say "you're" still writing.  I'm not.  I'm wasting time on facebook.  Okay, not at the moment.  But I was wasting time on facebook before I started this post and I will likely waste time on facebook after I finish this post.  And I guess I do technically write on facebook.  But a status update doesn't require a lot of thought or effort.  And in reading this blog post, apparently neither does writing a blog.  My point is, I started a blog so I'd have a place to just sort of ramble.  While I seem to be doing a good job of that, I don't seem to be doing a good job of ramble-blogging on a regular basis.  Once a month is no good.  It should be once a week.  At least.  But if my future posts are anything like this one, then maybe once a month is too much.

I Should Be Sleeping

So it's one-thirty in the morning and I've been struggling with this one chapter for the better part of the day. That's a ridiculous expression.  Why would I be struggling for the better part of the day?  The struggle implies that it wasn't good.  So why would it be better to struggle?  So really, I've been struggling with this chapter for a large portion of the day.  


Point being, it's not done.  And I'm tired.  And I really should be getting to bed.  My body is telling me to go to sleep and I know if I don't get enough sleep, at some point tomorrow, I'm going to have a major headache.  The thing is, the chapter is almost finished and I know how I'm going to finish it.  Well, that is, I know what needs to happen to finish it.  Actually executing that ending in such a way that it flows and makes sense and is concise, yet compelling, is a different matter altogether.  And that's because I need to go to bed.  


But instead of going to bed, I'm blogging.  Instead of writing the chapter, I'm blogging.  Why?  The most obvious answer is because I'm an idiot.  But, really, it's because I can't stand the thought of going to bed and having this chapter unfinished and I can't finish the chapter because I'm too tired to write it well.  So instead, I'm venting in my blog.  


I know that if I go to bed, I will wake up rested and I will be able to finish the chapter easily in the morning.  But, like I said, I hate to go to bed with something unfinished.  However, I guess since the book itself is unfinished and there's no way in Helena, Montana that I'm going to conquer that tonight, I should just go to bed.  


Did you really read this whole blog post?  Wow.  You must be avoiding going to bed, too.

And Then There Were Three

I've had some really great feedback on the book lately and I've come to a conclusion.  The one book is now going to become a trilogy.  Oh, and that doesn't mean that this book is going to be the first book in the trilogy.  No, I'm too lazy to write two more books, even though I know I eventually will.  I'm actually taking this book and breaking it up into three parts.  The story as it's written practically lends itself to this sort of format.  I've found where the story breaks are going to be and I'm going to start working on rewriting what will become the first book in the series.  

There are some people out there reading the book as a whole and a couple of them have asked me if they should stop reading it.  Nah.  The overall arc of the story is going to remain in tact.  So you really aren't going to miss much.  But many things will be different.  

I will be altering a couple of characters as well as a relationship.  I'm also going to combine two characters into one since they're already so similar and serve a similar purpose.  I'm eliminating another character and subplot altogether because they don't really do anything to advance the story.  An antagonist is going to be introduced earlier and I think he's going to be much scarier.  Finally, a very minor character is going to come back and play a major role in the second book after giving us a cliff-hanger and the end of book one.

I know that's all very vague, but I don't want to give away the farm.  I know it's really vague for anyone who hasn't read the book yet at all.  You will.  It's gonna be huge.