Nookage

So it's done.  I've done it.  The process has been completed.

I own an e-Reader.

I know I said I'd never get one.  I know I said it was the literal death of the written word.  I know I vowed that until the day I died I would read no book that wasn't neatly bundled in pages!  But I did it.  And I don't regret it.

My Nook.

The thing is I just don't read enough.  Who can with the instant gratification of video games, sitcoms, haunted houses, family functions, and God knows what else.  But I'm an English major, dammit!  I should be reading.  I'm too far behind my brethren as it is and it's time to get caught up.  So I will read, even it it's written in e-ink.  I will read and absorb and hope my sin will not be frowned upon by the literary gods to whom I give worship.

I'm doing it, I'm doing it!

Shabam!

I've tried this whole blog thing a few times now and maybe it'll stick this time.  Who knows?  Either way, this will be used to keep you (and myself) updated and the general goings-on of the things in my head.  I'd like to hope it will allow a few drops of brilliance to fall, but I make no guarantees and set no expectations.

I'm having a moment that my writing partner, Katie, recently experienced where I'm not sure if I like my main character being a female.  The basis of the story's concept was an incredibly vivid dream I had a few years back and the image of it led me to create a world and structure a story around it.  Now, nearly the entire concept has evolved into something other than originally intended by the influx of inspiration EXCEPT that she's still a she.  The result is that I'm torn.

I feel like a little kid who is trying to cling to something better off to be let go of.  I recognize I'm standing in the way of progress, but I had just envisioned the lead being a she and not a he.  A he would work, but it is not my intention, and thus leaves me sad at the inner battle I have.  I'm sure I'll inevitably change it to a he but this is a rough thing to experience, provided the incredible differences genders bring not only to the reader but also the story.  Maybe I'll let it sit while I work on our new project for NaNoWriMo!  More information on that later.  For now I will resign myself to my day job and hope I can keep this up!