So my wife got my thinking the other day about a short story I wrote for a class years ago. She wanted me to try to turn it into a screenplay.

That, however, did not pan out so I’m working on it as a novel and I may finally have enough of a story to get through the whole thing.

I’ll post more about it as I get along with the story but for now I’m going to keep posting a word count on the right side. This way, I can actually see the progress and it might give me more incentive to do what I need to.

So, as the new year ends, I find myself in a new and weird place. I have a new hybrid, a new job, and a new macbook.

The new job was supposed to allow me to have more time to spend with the hybrid and more time to write, but that isn’t happening. I pick him up from the grandparent’s home after work, but then have to help the wife make dinner during which the hybrid is usually sleeping. Then we watch a little television and go to bed. Or I fall asleep during while watching the damn tv.

Also, I’ve dropped just about every writing project I’ve had, including the 100 words. One of the coordinators sent an e-mail to the group stating that she was looking for things from the group that I didn’t really want to do. So I guess you can say that I left it due to ‘creative differences’. Never thought I would say that about anything.

The only other projects that I have are the Uké manga, which looks like it is on hold, and a website design that is two months late. Go figure. Oh, and then there’s is the secret project that I didn’t tell anyone about that is also looking like it is on hold.

Next year I plan on doing some things for me. Like more writing. I’ve got some ideas that just may work.

Happy new year.

I’m not going to bore anyone with what’s been going on the last few weeks. If you don’t know by now it doesn’t really matter. I will just point out a couple of things of note.

One: There’s a couple of new 100 word stories.

Two: The writing group I work with on the 100 words will be having a reading/discussion this Wednesday, 11.November.2009 from 6.00pm to 8.00pm at NJCU in the Gothic Lounge. (Room 202 in Hepburn Hall) If you’re around the area and would like to hear some really short stories, come on by. There will be a bunch of us reading fives stories each, and then some sort of discussion, q & a thing afterward.

It’s free to so count yourself as invited.

Life sure does love to get in the way of living, doesn’t it?

Since the hybrid was born, nothing has been the same, not a damn thing. Mostly not living in our own apartment. Having to stay with the in-laws is quite uncomfortable, not to mention it puts a damper on my own computer time.

And then there’s work. Not having a regular nine-to-five job is a real pain in the ass. Though, this should change in the upcoming couple of weeks thanks to a new job. This should give me to write more, let alone spend more time with the hybrid. But by writing more, I can actually get my projects done.

Besides writing, I also have a couple of website design/building gigs; one paid, one for a friend (so not paid). Still, it’s good to mix it up a bit, keeps the mind fresh.

I haven’t heard from the director, producer, or writer of the play I was working on so I guess I’m through with that officially. Which is a good thing because that annoyed the hell out of me.

So besides living by means of my crackberry, I haven’t had much time for anything. Coming back home in the next week and a half will help, plus that new job I mentioned, and I guess it’ll back to almost normal for me.

Oh, new 100 words up.

My latest 100 word will probably be up tomorrow. I didn’t have a chance to do it on this weekend because of the new kid and our living arrangements at the moment. I am hoping to get things better organized soon so that things like this don’t happen.

Also, I was apparently skipped over for two e-mails from my writing partners for some reason.

Whatever….

First off, here’s the new 100 words.

Next up, I’ve been busy the last week with the birth of my son. It’s a frigging amazing thing, becoming a parent. All I want to do is sit and hold him all the time though I know that’s impossible. Still, it’s all I want to do. But I can’t not do anything else….

I started a new job last, last Monday. It’s retail, it sucks, it’ll last until the economy improves and I can find a real job. This is going to take up a shitload of time because the person in charge of scheduling, whom from this moment on I will call “the Manager”, has me working seven or eight straight days, starting later today. The Manager needs to learn how to make schedules because working hours like that will burn anyone who works in retail out. And it’s not a good way to save money for the owners.

Because of this, I’m going to have to drop one of my projects and it’s going to be the play adaptation. It’s not one of my own projects, I’m not getting paid for it, and all along this thing I’ve gotten nothing but headaches. I’m still going to be writing the 100 words because it’s fun and I’m going to continue to work on that new project with my friend I discussed earlier. I’ve already sent her some stuff and will write some more and send it to her hopefully by Friday.

That’s all for now. Time for bed….

Sorry it’s late. Been caught up in stuff. Details to follow….

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