Monthly Archive for March, 2009

So I’ve had quite a bit of encouragement regarding my writing. Daniel’s mom mentioned keeping drawing and writing separate. I would like to at least attempt to do both simultaneously, a graphic novel, while finishing the other novels. I re-read them all and like Murder in the City and Sera’s Love (the title needs work), but found that Going Home was not to my taste. The second part actually picked up nicely, but the first part was really dusty and broken. That’s most likely due to drawing on my past and some memories. Emotions are good in writing, but apparently for me they’re better kept in perspective rather than directly personal. Part 2 of that story was definitely from a different perspective. Parts of it were too similar to Murder in the City, so I am definitely either re-doing Going Home or dropping it.
I was really surprised by how engaged I was in Sera’s Love. It was written before my life was turned upside-down again, and is so different emotionally from the things I wrote later on. Every time I re-read something from my past, I learn more about myself.
Ninjaen Hero will require VAST amounts of time and effort on my part, and is something I see as a continuing saga, not a one-time story. I plan to expand much further on it once these other projects are done. I consider it the light at the end of the tunnel It will be a graphic novel, but with so many maps and charts and information, it will be more complex than those flash video games. That’s my plan, anyway. I’ve always loved sci-fi and romance, the combination is absolutely fun for me. Mysteries are like sci-fi lite to me, so they’re good practice.
So, I will be re-writing, finishing and simplifying Sera’s Love into a graphic novel. I’m focusing more on a summer-before-college theme, instead of the unknown giggly teen/adult they seem to be now. I hope to do this while also finishing Murder in the City. I had a part 2 and part of part 3 written in 2006/2007, but seem to have lost those documents since then. Nevertheless, I remember most of my intent. The next part will introduce Nina’s family, who seems to be fairly absent! I’ve also cleaned up the wording and miss-spellings in it.

On a more personal note: Sunday March 22nd, 2009 is the official one-year anniversary of Daniel, Jaiden and I all getting together (or as Daniel says, the day I said “OK!”).
Jaiden agreed with me, as I recall. “OK!”
Yaay for relationships that last longer than a few months!
I went low-carb at the end of February, right before Daniel’s 25th birthday (I know, I’m so robbing the cradle!). It was something I’d half done before, and even while pregnant I ate mainly protein. I’ve never done it deliberately and certainly never to this extent. You will all be happy to know (unless you LIKE me being dizzy and fuzzy-headed) that I no longer need to eat every two hours (in fact once or twice a day is all I need/want), I can see better (for some reason, it may have to do with previous brain cloudiness), and caffeine actually makes me HYPER without the use of sugar. If you recalled, I previously needed a combination of sugar and caffeine. Independently, sugar or caffeine made me sleepy. Together, they made me hyper. I am unaware of the affects of sugar currently, since I’ve limited my intake to 20-30g of it a day, but caffeine actually makes me hyper (which I take as a good sign, not a bad, and not an excuse to drink more caffeine). It’s just a weird thing that’s cool.
My body fat % is dropping as well (I haven’t lost much weight overall, but my body is firmer and easier to use). There are so many benefits to the new diet, things I’ve discovered about myself. It is something I’d recommend to anybody with blood-sugar issues (except type 1 diabetics).
Dr. Mike is my favorite pro-protein doctor. He and his wife both have blogs, she writes mostly recipes, and he writes about all the questions people have for him as well as his own findings on various subjects.

I’m done ranting now.

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