1) I start my new job this Thursday. I am super excited. This job is the first full-time job and the highest-paying job I have ever had, and my very first leadership position.
2) I have a new blog. Obviously.
3) I am almost halfway done with Different Seasons by Stephen King. It is a collection of novellas, which you don't see a lot of nowadays. Novellas are somewhere in the middle of short stories and novels, anywhere from 20,000-40,000 words, although every market has its own word limit. They're too long for magazines, and too short for modern books, so Stephen King--genius as he is--decided to publish four together as a loosely-composed novel. Three of the four stories have become movies, the most famous being The Shawshank Redemption. This is the first King book I have ever read, and ironically I picked one of his few non-horror books to start off with. Regardless, though, he is a really great writer and his characterization is the best I've read in a long time. I can't wait until I see how well he handles his novels...
4) Back in January I joined the blogging staff for Amazing Stories. For those of you that don't know, Amazing Stories was the very first science fiction magazine. It was founded back in the late 20s by Hugo Gernsbeck, the man who gave science fiction its name. It lasted for many years until the company that owned it at the time forgot about it and let it fade into near-nothingness. But thanks to long-time fan, Steve Davidson (the world's leading expert on paintballing) the magazine is back and slowly on its way to becoming the same great magazine it was back in the Golden Age. I started off writing bi-weekly entries on whatever science fiction topic I felt like writing about, which was mostly film. Steve recently gave me permission to move to weekly writing, and my recent posts have been about blogging and science fiction magazines. Steve challenged me to write a science article, as that topic area has not been doing so good on the website. I'm seriously thinking about the Ebola virus as my topic. After all, many good SF started with a certain kind of virus...
5) They say that you can only write as good as you read, and since for the past few years I've let my reading fall to the wayside I decided to stop writing fiction for a while and concentrate on catching up with my reading. My mom loaned me a HUGE tote of her Stephen King (which is where I got Different Seasons) and before I read anything else I plan on reading every book she gave me so that I can give them back. My room is tiny, so I could use all the free space I can get.
6) My girlfriend, her sister, and myself have been playing The Game of Life a lot lately, and we all love it. W're resolved to play every night we can. Most of the time I lose but its so fun I don't even care.
7) Of course, there are the usual eating, drinking, sleeping, news watching, and bathroom visits. On top of these, there are the countless hugs, kisses and cuddles with the girlfriend. Plus, I need to feed my fish once a day...
Ok, I can tell that this is starting to become too random and out of context so I'm going to stop while I'm ahead. If you want to know more about Amazing Stories, check out our website at amazingstoriesmag.com.
Oh, yeah. My girlfriend blogs too! Hers is randomthoughtsofashygirl.blogspot.com. She will be your friend forever if you check out her site!
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