Since everyone else has gotten on the band wagon, I figure my days of holding out are numbered.  As the independent sort, I have chosen the time for my first foray into the self-blogging world.

What to write about?  Should I write about The Radiance and the Redhead?  Monster 1 or Monster 2 (aka: The Starbuck)?  The Man?  Or Miss Nose, the white hurricane wolf-dog?  The other day, I seriously considered posting about the ineptness of ACHD...I mean, REALLY...how could construction or detours on EVERY major N-S artery for a five mile square stretch be okay, especially with a freeway bisecting the area so the overpasses are limited anyway and with the infrastructure already twenty years behind in development for the population load?  Give me a break, please.

I am an aspiring author.  I have a book technically finished, and another in progress, and many many more on the drawing board.  However, there is a problem with this first one: I wrote it with the intention of excorcising my demons.  Instead, they took me for a walk.  I 'm not sure I can be objective enough to take criticism on it without somehow feeling like people are criticising me, personally.  This goes beyone the typical "my baby" situation, even though the book isn't autobiographical--I mean, some of the events did happen to me or to my friends/acquaintences, but certainly not all of them.

Yet I find myself thinking about that first one, sometimes.  The girls in the basement (my unconscious mind) have already figured out what I need to to to make it more palatable, so what am I waiting for?  A month or so of writing, and another couple for editting, and could have it done by, say, autumn.  Would there even be a market for it?  Do I care?  Should I keep on with the second book instead, and shop it first since I am positive it is more marketable?  I have too many questions and not enough answers, so I leave it sit in its place under my desk while the girls in the basement continue to chew on it..  

Currently reading Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley.  I think The Radiance would love this one...it is almost total stream-of -onsciousness..