Reading Stephenie Meyer’s personal account of how she imagined and then carried out the writing of “Twilight,” the first in a series of highly successful books about young vampires, makes me want to get off my ass and write a novel.
Her telling of the book’s creation isn’t even well written in my humble opinion. It makes me wonder what the story looked like before her editors got a hold of the first draft. And then makes me believe I could pull off creating a publishable story.
Just because something is publishable doesn’t mean it ever actually gets published, but I really think if I end up on my death bed without trying, I’ll have one major regret.
I’m going to have to read this book now.
Hello and welcome to my blog. That’s right, my blog. The idea of a blog seemed appealing to me, so I thought I’d toy with the idea a little, then a little more, then more still, until finally, I ended up writing the words you are reading right now. I’m not sure where I’ll go with this exactly. It’ll probably always be a work in progress, if it gets off the ground at all. But it’s something.
The main section of Sprkus.com doesn’t get updated as often because I’m not going out four nights a week anymore. Good for my wallet, bad for my Web site. And the Message Board is dead. Was always dead, really. Most days if you looked at the topic lineup where it tells you who the last to comment was, it would be a vertical line of “Rick”s all the way down the page. So it makes sense to share things in the form of a blog as opposed to message board topics.
I always felt I needed a venue to talk about certain events in addition to posting photos of them. With this blog, I can link to and from pictures at will and not be confined to the small “This Just In” section, which I’m sure will be replaced. This blog might replace the message board entirely — one decision of many I have yet to make. Additionally, even if nobody reads the blog, at least I’m writing in my spare time — a skill I should always be improving. After all, that’s a large part of how I earn a living.
Whether or not anyone SHOULD be paying me… well, that’s another matter.
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