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You always seem to lift me up from this despair
Drag me off my knees time and time again
Hand me this glimmering tool to keep me floating
The ground gives way and it only weighs me down

…this only gives me a chance to even the score

Drawing circles now around me
If only this sweet solitude surrounds me
And my painted window keeps my vision clear
Only then will everything hold value

Sitting, searching…remaining anonymous
Willing, waiting…just the perfect moment
Preying, patiently…I keep myself in hiding
Until the new dawn breaks

Draw myself now within me
Embrace this sweet solitude that is me
And my painted window thrust it open clear
The ground gives way as I drag you all back down

The day comes…

shhhhh…

wait and see…

if you think I scared you before…

wait and see.

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Yeah, I've been working...

Haven't posted in January but I've been semi-busy with a story. The rest of my time has been divided up between work, home, and school work...as always. Speaking of the story though, I have to say that I like where it's going and how it's pacing (seems like I might be able to stretch it into a novella at least)! The series of stories feels like it wants to breathe and squirm around for awhile. I love it, and their world is growing slowly for now but at least it's still growing.

The desert is the stage, the man grips gravity and finds an acquaintance to hold onto in a world that begins to show the signs of spinning out of control. Can he hold all of it down? Can he retain some semblance of normalcy? Probably not...ha ha!

COUNT: 9-pgs/3,615-wrds

14 pages later...

It's done! The story based on a beast-man "hero"-type kid is in the bag for the first draft anyway. I got to finish it on the 27th...exactly one month after I started it on Thanksgiving. That's pretty neat I think. On to the next one though...exactly what it will be about I'm not sure yet, there a couple of ideas floating around in the primordial upstairs soup.

Christmas is coming...

as my elders used to say...and this short story about the monastery is still in the first draft form. Hopefully I can finish it up today before the family get-togethers get into full swing. I'd settle for "before New Years"! You know, it's not that long or complicated but with school and family being your first priorities, well you have to take care of business. I have the next couple of weeks off of everything except family stuff so here we go...WRITE MAN!

Slow Going...

on thias short hero story. Had to work a bit today and get the kids ready for school tomorrow. Okay so I watched a bit of football as well including watching the Lions die a slow death. On TV only because it was an away game as they can't seem to sell a home game out anymore. Good job fans...stick it to 'em! Anyways, any excuse to dodge the job at hand and that's not the way it's supposed to be although it seems harder at the holidays.

GRRR! Back to it kid, c'mon a bit more before bed.

Notes from the desk

Coming up with something new always gets me going. Lots of ideas running through my head right now about superheroes and the like...trying to keep the ideas fluid though and not too cemented in anything specific just yet...short stories centralized around one or two characters...they all tie in somehow but see that's the whole cement shoes thing again...don't need that right now...heroes, heroes, heroes...hmmmm
darker side or more human side to these guys...nothing is what it seems...
Working on one about a boy living with monks in a European (I think) mountainside monestary...5 pages in over Thanksgiving so far. I should post some of it but it's freaking late...

Happy Turkey Day!

Thanksgiving is a day to get stuffed and we all did. More importantly it's a day to remember why we get to the places we are. In that vein then, I'm very thankful for my family. Without my wife and kids, I wouldn't be anyplace worth a damn. They all rock my world and make every day worth getting up for. Thank you guys, I love you all!