I have decided to start writing a book.
(dramatic pause for general disbelief and snickering at my expense)
This will be a long term project but I have already outline the broad strokes of the plot and jotted down a very rough draft of the first two chapters. Now some might think (at least those of you who read my blog) “How on gods green/blue earth can he write a book when the blog is all but dead ?” And I would agree with that, I have not updated or written anything here, not because I didn’t want to. But because I didn’t see the point. I usually just wrote what I had done recently and such, and there seemed little point in doing that.
Now that I have a project to comment on, I think it might be different.
My head is always thinking “what if this and that” when it comes to just about everything to personal experience and historical events. How things might have turned out… and I have decided to try and put that to use when writing my book. Rather than using this energy, if you will, to think out what would have happened if I said this rather than that.. what if Stalin had a pet ferret would he still be a communist or would he still be looking for his keys and socks ? Who knows…
I currently have about 7-8 pages of notes, ideas and random gibberish written down so I think this is something I can do. And on my way home from work I had another idea that I think would be good story. So while I outline and generally fiddle about with the book I have also decided to write a short story. Flexing my vocabulary a bit before diving in to the deep end as it where.
So there it is, a published aspiration from me, will wonders never cease.
But talk, and writing about such things, is cheap… if not followed up by action. So much like those who post picture of their bodies to motivate themselves to continue to workout. I will give myself a deadline when it comes to the short story. Which will be mid-May… that is to say the 20th at the latest… whatever I have or have not written by then will be published here. So that you few readers can comment, mock, ridicule or praise my writing and storytelling prowess …
Since I just posted a review, in which I all but said “do not read it”, I thought I’d put it (the review) in context. The best way to do this I think is to post the current content of my Kindle, sans reviews but perhaps a short note on those I feel strongly about. (This list is completely uncensored in any way)
Before I started doing so I didn’t think I’d be such a long list. But I surprised myself. However the idiom says “the clothes make the man” perhaps one can in the same manner judge my mind, brain, intellect or personality by the books I have currently loaded up on ? feel free to speculate and comment. I will not be offended.
- Dresden files by Jim Butcher (all 10 books, read)
- Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher (read)
- Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (read)
- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark (not read yet)
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (read and recommended)
- When SysAdmins Ruled the World by Cory Doctorow (short story, read, recommended)
- Nightside series by Simon R. Green (all books to date, read, somewhat recommended)
- The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan (started not completed, recommended so far)
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (read, classic, recommended)
- CCNA Official Exam Certification Library (CCNA Exam 640-802) (not read, on todo list)
- Crito by Plato (not read but on todo list)
- Grey Walker by Kat Richardson (not started on)
- The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (not read)
- Burnout: the mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281 by Stephanie Osborn (not started on)
- A Dark Matter by Peter Straub (currently reading – not recommended so far)
- Wireless by Charles Stross (read, recommended)
- The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross (read, somewhat recommended)
- Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross (started on, so far recommended)
- Halting State by Charles Stross (read, recommended)
- The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross (read, recommended)
- Accelerando by Charles Stross (read, somewhat recommended)
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Lionel Giles trans. (read)
- Nightlife by Rob Thurman (read, recommended)
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Jonathan Star trans. (on todo list)
- Candide by Voltaire (not read, on todo list)
- Starfish by Peter Watts (not read)
- Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (read, recommended)
- My Man jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (read, recommended)
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