Writing or trying to...

I am amazed that "Juno" won the Oscar for best screen play. This was Cody's first screen play. She was a stripper and blogger on this blog site. She was contacted by an Hollywood agent who liked her blog, "The Pussy Ranch" and talked her into writing a novel. She wrote a memoir of her life as a stripper. Next she wrote "Juno" and the rest is history as they say. So if she can do it, that gives hope to would be writers. So with that said we move on to my writing. I have been commissioned by the Texas Luthern Assocation to write the script for their up comming coranation. The theme is...well, thats a seceret. I have now sat down at my laptop and I am in the process of working on a cheap detective fiction novel. I also am working on a novel about single life for men and the dating pitfalls and the "nice guy". How nothing is what it seems and if it can go wrong, it will.

I am also seeking an agent, so if you know of a good one, let me know.

Trains

I am now a train collector. Well I don't know if collector is the right word. I bought a train set. Set it up and began playing with it. I first had to build a train table. Me, building a table... that was a sight. But it looks good, even if the legs are not so straight. Anyway, its up and running. It has become my zen meditation. I sit and play with it for hours and time just slips by. There is a nothingness to it, no thinking, no stress and lots of fun. I have a steam engine simarlar to the one in the photo. To sit and watch it run with its smoke coming from its stack is so soothing.

Two weeks ago I went to a big model train convention in San Antonio. What a blast! I saw so many layouts and sizes. I did not know that there was so much intrest in model trains in this area. I am sure that there will be more blogs on trains upcoming.

New blog

Each night before I go to bed, I pick up my pen and begin writing in my journal. Some nights there is a lack of anything to write and some nights I just don't feel like writing. A friend of mine created an on-line blog and I have been reading it daily. It gave me that idea that maybe I too should start an blog. A place to post my ramblings or as I like to call them, my "misadventures". A place to talk about what I like or don't like and maybe have someone come along for the ride.