April 13, 2009

No word on book 1 yet. The lit agency in San Francisco should be receiving my ms today, so who knows when that will be responded to. Nothing on the other two as yet. Patience, I guess, is the watchword of the day.

Created another character for book II. His name is Alain Toussaint, an educated young man who is interested in becoming a writer and who dabbles in art, mostly pencil drawings. Have added several new things to two of the threads today. I want to have the story outlined by the end of May, with serious writing on it after that. I'd like to have the first draft completed by the time we leave for the west come August. Then I can spend the rest of the winter re-writing, and polishing, and have it ready for the publishers shortly after the first one comes out... God! How I wish! Oh, well, stranger things have happened. I did, after all, win a short story contest with the first story I sent out, so I don't think it's totally impossible to dream about having my book(s) published while I'm still living.

Am getting into the habit of working in the art arena again, which is good. Maybe I can sell a few between now and the end of the year. Anything to keep from having to go back to work at a, ugh!, regular job in a few years. I could always paint houses I guess, but it would have to be for people who are not around while I'm working, or who strongly believe in the freedom of speech including copious amounts of swear words, and different coloured plants and grass.

Here it's getting close to lunch and I just finished breakfast! Small lunch today! Or, maybe none.  

Open warfare with the pirates! Better late than never, I guess. I can't believe they honestly thought the world would accept them as "businessmen", unless they relate to being bankers or credit card companies. I do really wonder, though, if there was "imment" danger, or they just wanted to bring this to a close. The destroyer was towing the pirate's boat. They could have towed it far out to sea and threaten to set it loose...