NaNo Update...

Okay.....so I didn't finish.

But I did learn a lot about my style of writing. I still like to write, I just HATED the story I started. I tried to go in cold and I realized that ain't-a-gonna work. Next year (yes, I plan to do this again next year), I think I'll do some plot and character outlining beforehand.

Then, we'll see.

Once I left a few weeks go by...I realized that I AM a writer at heart.

I just have to find my muse...and some time....and my ideal writing "space".

Thanks for all the support and love.

~~ PhoeNyx ^ )O(

What is the Character of Integrity?

I have just finished watching this video of a Utah Highway Patrol Officer who tasers a man for refusing to sign a speeding ticket. My first reaction, a resounding "W.T.F.?????"

Now, normally, I don't bother with this type of stuff as it has been posted on YouTube. There is enough trash on YouTube to choke the galaxy. However, I have become increasingly alarmed lately at the eradication of the rights of private citizens. How can a police officer GET AWAY with this? I understand that the Utah Highway Patrol is JUST NOW getting around to investigating and ONLY because the video just showed up on YouTube. Doesn't anyone REVIEW the tapes in the officers vehicles?

What...an....idiot.

I am more and more distressed by the lack of manners in all people.

~~)O(~~

One Week In....

I've been working on my novel for one week. This is my first attempt at writing anything more structured than a journal entry and certainly none of my journal entries were EVER designed with any other human being reading them in mind.

So far.......eh......I have discovered I have TONS of great ideas and TONS of great traits to give my characters. Yet, I don't have one solid lead of a coherent direction. Just a lot of .... stuff.

But, that is okay. My goal is to keep writing. Describing the sounds of legos bouncing off of the carpet or the argument for the 100th time today about whose turn it is on Webkinz......then the silent obedience of compliance when they realize I'm about to give them WORKSHEETS so that I can write something adult-like. I suppose this month is going to consist of many documents that look like run-on sentences or attempts at descriptive prose.

Mostly I think I'll end up with a whole bunch of journal entries.

BUT.....I have embarked at stretching myself into the realm of .....writer......(I say with with short breath). AND I have a great picture on my Author Profile. (Photo Courtesy of Laura KnowNothing.....All Rights Reserved)

NaNoWriMo

.....stands for "National Novel Writing Month". My friend, Tammy, has been expounding about how fun this contest is. She's finally wore me down. Plus, she promised to be my writing buddy.



You can see more about it here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/

I've fiddled around with poetry and even had one published in a collection through the National Library of Poetry. Of course, now that just about everything can be found online, book collections can loose their appeal to some. Though, not to me! I've been rediscovering the love of books and all that they contain. But, a novel????

Sheesh.....I'm not reaching WAY out of my comfort zone or anything.

It'll be fun, a creative challenge and who knows? Maybe I'll really love it and it will be published. Maybe my mom will read it....maybe not....I doubt it will be a romance, but anything goes and as quoted by Jack Black in the movie The Holiday, "when the Santa Ana's blow, all bets are off!"

~~PhoeNyx

p.s. Speaking of betting, if you are thinking about going to Vegas and placing a bet against the Red Sox, you might think again. They are HOT and not to be denied another World Championship.
GO BOSTON!!!!

Where did all the MEN go???

It's an "X-Files" episode....


Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.......so I started my own blog and then what happens? I don't do ANY blogging for awhile.....

So, what HAVE I been doing? My usual; playing with the kids, discovering their wonderful personalities, homeschooling. Doing the Legal Eagle thing for CHN. Staying in trouble, 'cause how boring is it to be OUT of trouble?; Thinking about my life and where it's been and where it is going and enjoying my exceptional husband.

I have talked to so many people lately that have husbands who aren't really husbands. Or maybe they aren't really MEN. They tell their wives that the children are the wife's "job" and in the case of homeschooling, that's their job, too.

One lady I talked to recently told me that her husband and son (he's 6) FIGHT when the husband comes home!! So, she has to referee.... I told her that she has TWO children.

Thank the gods mine is not like that. He has his faults and he's human (again....thanking the gods). But he never treats me inferiorly. Not that I would even allow it for a second, nor would I treat him like that, either. I don't really understand existing in a marriage like that. Why would you bother?

I can say fun things like "it's been my existence in his world that his made him like that. But that wouldn't be true. We didn't meet (formally) until we were both in our mid-(ish) 20's. He had a life before me. Many, many other influences before discovering he couldn't live without me.

His mother is wonderful. I think that has had the most affect. I hope I am comfort to my son when he is grown and begins a family of his own.

Seriously, WHERE are all the MEN?

~~PhoeNyx~~ )O(

My New Blog

I decided that it was time for me to have my own blog. I'm linking to it from our family blog. But this one is just for me. I can spout my political or religious or ... stupid some may think ... opinions. But they are mine.