I did it

I sent a query letter to an agent about my YA novel. This is a big step for me, because I've been just taking the easy way--just drifting along, telling myself what I write isn't good  enough.

Now I'm going to take another look at that Peter Pan story and see what I can do with it.

Go me!

Dell sucks

Yes, you do, Dell company. Or maybe the salesperson who convinced us that we'd 'love' the Dell all-in-one computer sucks. That we'd like it better than the e-machine we were considering. We've had e-machines before, I'm actually typing on one right now, and they're ok. Fine. Affordable.

So now a call into Dell to speak to one of their technicians (in India) is on my IT guy's agenda. My IT guy who hates working on computers. 

The thing is, this computer isn't even six months old yet, and it's been nothing but trouble. It hasn't worked right since we got it. This was the fourth time we've had to load Windows on it, and it's not loading. Piece. Of. Crap.

Of course that's where I do 'all' of my writing, thank God I saved on my flash drive. I'm a little afraid to bring the drive over here and use it because hey, this puter has a worm of some kind that's eating everything and what if it slides into my flash drive?

Fun times.

no country for old men

Mixed in with my plethora of various fiction, I try to read 'classic' books as well. This time I chose 'No Country For Old Men', by Cormac McCarthy, mainly because I've seen the movie, which was quite good, if disturbing. While reading the book, I saw Josh Brolin as Moss, Tommy Lee Jones as Sheriff Bell, whose character in the book was more prominent, and Javier Bardem as Churagh, the baddest bad ass you've ever encountered.  I think the only reason I made it through the book was because I'd seen the movie. I mean, the book was not that easy to read. The author is one of those types who disdains quotation marks, so you really have to pay attention to who's speaking. Many times I had to reread in order to keep the speaker straight. that being said, I did enjoy the book very much despite the differences from the movie. Lame, I know, because I'm one of those people who generally disdain the movie made from the book because the book is almost always better, but this one is an exception. I'd say that the book and movie are equal, and that's quite a feat in this era of movie making.

So, I sort of forgot about this thing

Ah, the online writing journal. Two years later she thinks to unhide it on the Blogger dashboard and voila! Inspiration hits! Well, maybe. I do have some stuff I can put on here, you know, stuff from the neverending novel that's been going on like forever.

I started 'Dream On' again from Joel's point of view this time, and I've been writing it in vignettes, all with song titles that reflect the chapter's content. For some reason it's always been easier to write from his viewpoint rather than Cassidy's, who is a bit boring. I know I"m more than likely too hard on myself, but sometimes I go back and read the finished (oh yeah, I did finish it) version (first draft, kind of) and I think, 'Geeze. What crap. Who would want to read this?'  Despite my two fellow writing group peeps who said otherwise. I dunno. Maybe I just want my own writing to knock me out with its awesomeness. It can happen, though, right?

Yeah, sure.