Update! for the end of the year

Well, for those of you with nothing better to do than look at my blog on a regular basis, I felt the need to explain what had been happening in my life since I last wrote in here.

My life went to hell in a handbasket! That's what happened!

Alright, so maybe I shouldn't be so dramatic. But that's definitly what it felt like to me. My classes and my lack of desire to go to them spun out of control, which added to the stress of studying for tests that I knew nothing about and having to endure classes I detested every last second of. So between tests and everything, I kept myself creatively entertained.

For those of you that don't know, or haven't read that far back in my blog, I've had this idea to write a romance novel trilogy about my group of friends. I put up some of the ideas here once, I believe.

Anyway, I took those ideas and I expanded them. At first it was merely a prologue. You know, the general idea that would branch out. Believing in my lack of ability to write well, I shared my initial ideas with a few friends. One friend in particular, an online friend, started to poke me so incessantly to continue the stories that I did continue with it. It was with her constant praise and continuous prodding that for the last few months I dished out over 175 pages of what I consider to be the essence of Book One.

There have been revisions and lost pages, but I finally typed out the main story onto the screen. I know that there are some things, big things mind you, like locations and thoughts, etc, that I need to go back and add onto. I will. I really will go back. But at the moment I have set it aside and decided to no longer obsess over it. Which is hard, since my friends have all loved the portrayals of themselves.

Still, I am resolved to push out the rest of the stories by summer. Then and only then, will I take a break and go back to finish what I started. At the moment, I just completed the prologue to Book Two. I'm currently waiting for the feedback and praise from my dear friend to be able to continue.

It really is strange that, after all I have written, I am still very self conscious about my writing. I don't think its good enough. But if I don't get these ideas out of my head, they will plague me until my dying day. Or at least, until some better idea momentarily pushes them to the back burner. Which I doubt, this idea is way too big to ignore.

But, here I am talking on and on as if you, whoever you are who is reading this, has read my work and know what the books are about. Allow me to elaborte... or at least do so in general terms.

Eight friends who met and were extremely close in college, graduate and go their seperate ways. Before they do, they have one last ultra dinner and promise to stay in touch no matter what. So, five years later, we come back into their lives. They are each doing their own thing, yet continue to come back to and hold onto the bonds they once shared in college. An event in one life affects the events in everyone else's life. Like a huge domino effect they get careers, meet the love of their lives, have families and confront all the tragedies that make us human.

In essence, we see their lives, what happens to them in love and friendship. Sometimes through the eyes of one and later through the eyes of another person in the moment. Then we see how that leads to two very different interpretations. Hence creating a large web of lives that are so closely intertwined at certain moments that there are several stories being told at once.

Anyhoo... that's basically been it for me. I wrote and I finished what was by far my all time worst semester ever. One to go down in the record books as the most catastrophic semester in histore for me. Don't ask. I won't tell you. But all I know is that I need to get my butt in high gear. I graduate in two semesters, not including the one that starts now in january.

Aside from all that, I was a featured poet for Pastiche and worked in collaboration with Grace. We've been close when it comes to working and being inspired. Its a mutual respect, I believe, and she's definitly a very close friend now. One that I had never thought I would have.

So, there you have it! That has been my life since I last posted.

Now you know. And knowing is half the battle! GI JOE! *plays the theme music and dances about*