In which I jot down some ideas...

I've been thinking, which never usually leads to productive things, rather, random whimsical thoughts traipse through my mind not unlike butterflies drawn by the smell of decaying flesh. Now that I have that rather odd image in your brain I will attempt to decode what thoughts attacked my mind throughout today. Most of it has to do with this little old blog here.

Thought the first was to do with making regular updates. I know that many of you have a schedule that you stick to come hell or high water and, being the responsible adult that I pretend to be, I'm going to attempt to update regular like. The most common schedule that I've been thinking of is the Monday, Wednesday, Friday one and I think I'll give that one a go. So - Here fore, I (insert name here)* swear to update each and every Monday, Wednesday and Friday unless otherwise occupied in which case I can defer when I update but not before giving notice. (Sounds dreadfully official right?)

Thought the second has to do with personalising my blog. I have attempted this in the past with mixed to disastrous results so this one may take a little longer than expected but I thought I would add it to the list since I'm being all mature and grown up and the like.

Thought the third revolves around this idea I had for a post in which I outline the reasons being a dork is cool. It hasn't fully formed and it has something to do with how obsessed I was with dinosaurs and Jurassic Park when I was little and how that evolved into my love of all things left of centre. So it was going to look like an evolutionary chart of mini geek/dork to the dork I am today. Plus I found myself saying the word dork today and enjoying the sound it made...don't judge me...some words are just fun to say. Spatula, for example, is a word I love to say. It always makes me smile.

And the final thought is not really important and somewhat embarrassing so I shall wait until I grow some balls (which is hopefully never since I would probably freak out if I woke in the morning and...well...you've all seen those B Grade body swap movies...) before elaborating on that one.

I think that is all for this Monday. Now I can start planning for Wednesday. (Which also happens to be the day I find if the publishing house wants to publish my novel or whether I should start looking for an agent - which could be a post in itself.)

::*::flounces around the room looking for her dinner::*:: Bye all.

*I didn't forget my name just really can't be arsed to write it out in full...

In which I talk about me and possibly WoW

WoW - not wow but World of Warcraft. Yep, I started a free trial last night and I'm not sure how it is going to turn out but it is something to do while I wait to hear back from people about jobs and other such exciting things. Also, it is actually kind of fun though I feel that it could take up a lot of my time which could be used for other such things as maybe sleeping and definitely writing. I've always heard of people talking about the Alliance and the Horde etc and, other than a vague knowledge of the stuff I didn't really know what was going on so I thought I would give it a try.

So, I chose my character, a human hunter. There were a lot of cool characters to choose from and I wasn't sure which one I was going to go for but I liked the idea of a hunter, plus I got a sweet wolf as a pet. However, I am currently not doing that great since I am trying to figure out the controls etc and I seem to be getting my arse kicked by a series of kobolds who keep accusing me of stealing their candles. I didn't, just in case you were wondering.

I've never really played an RPG* before, unless you count the one I did as a teen via email as an OC** for LJ Smith's Nightworld series.*** Anyway, I might give random updates if I decide to continue after the free trial.

Now, onto more important stuff like writing. As many of you may know, I love to write. Most of you probably know that I have also finished a novel. I hope that one day very soon I will get said novel published. In the meantime I am working on two other novels. One is a sequel to the first and the other is set in an entirely new world. What I mean by world is that is isn't in the same universe as the first one, if that makes sense.

I'm finding this new novel rather difficult to write, mainly because I am challenging myself by writing it in first person, which has never been my strong suite. I'm working at it and I am up to chapter four though I haven't let anyone look at it yet. I want to get it more polished before I let anyone, my mother included, see it.Yes I am aware that I sound like a jealous mother hen fiercely guarding her chickens but I'm allowed to be protective over my writing, aren't I?

Aside from that there isn't a lot in the way of exciting news in my neck of the woods. Oh, btw, yes it is Valentine's Day and, no, I don't 'celebrate' it, especially considering there were several 'Valentines' and none of them did anything overly romantic aside from dying as martyrs etc. I even recall reading something about how it was another of the Pagan holidays that was full of sacrifices and flogging. ****

Sorry, kinda went off course there. I promise I will do a better blog in the coming days. My brain has just been fried by the current heatwave that we are having in my corner of the world. It happens to be driving me insane.

Peace and pancakes

*RPG - Role playing game
** OC- Original Character
***LJ Smith is probably better known for The Vampire Diaries books that are now a TV Series of the same name. The Nightworld series was a favourite of mine growing up.
**** I just did a cursory search again to confirm my vague memories so if you google the truth about Valentine's day you can find some interesting reading - but remember, you can't trust everything you read!