Yes, yes it's true. Actually, now that every one of you that reads this blog already knows that Amanda's pregnant it's not a surprise. It is, however, tremendously exciting. No, we weren't trying, but we weren't preventing, either. Amanda is nine weeks in and starting to develop a little bit of a baby bump. Cravings have started (DONUTS at 6 a.m. this morning), but we've yet to have our first irrational outbreak of emotional hogwash. Our due date is March 24th, and we'll go back it September to have another ultrasound done. The first week in August we heard the Baby's heartbeat. It was quite emotional. So it's actually happening; I'm going to be a father. Any guesses as to the baby's name? We're selling the rights, matter of fact.
It's 7:30 p.m. and my mind is already starting to think about work. It's like when I was in school and at the same time before the week of classes started I'd switch to school mode. Except this sucks even more. As we speak I'm suppressing the urge to continue thinking about work. Oh, a freecreditreport.com commercial.....okay I'm back. Work is out of the equation for a minute.
Yesterday was my fantasy football draft. I think I did well, and if things break right I have a chance to win it for the second time. yesterday also provided an opportunity for me to catch-up with my high school friends. We're all pretty much the same, except fatter and balder. It was a lot of fun.
Now that the fantasy football draft is gone and Madden 10 is out (which I've played for all of an hour), I'm eyeing the next piece of excitement on the horizon. This week it's a Saturday Night Boxing event on HBO. I know, not much, right?
The books are, well, they're coming along. My wife has yet to begin reading through my final rewrite of the 'The Plunge.' If she doesn't watch it, I'm going to submit it without her editorial eye. I'm ready to put that thing in the ground. I've been working on it for nearly two years, and every time I see it I want to throw up. It's gone through six rewrites, and I'm going to rewrite it again before I submit it to agents. (Mind you, I'm re-reading and re-writing 324 double-spaced, 12 font pages) Then when (if) it gets picked up by a publisher, I'll have to rewrite it six more times. So, my thoughts on 'The Plunge' for this week are that it's love/hate. There are parts of it that still make me laugh. Then there are others that are just plain tedious. Problem is that I don't know how to fix it. In the hands of a professional I'm hoping to find what I'm missing. There's a lot to work with there, though. The feedback from those who've read parts has been overwhelmingly positive, so the support is pushing me on.
And as stated in the last post, my novel is undergoing its third rewrite. I'd put it down for four months, and now that I've jumped back into it, I'm liking it more and more. I'm through about this go, and part of me is afraid that the writing is too simplistic. And by simplistic I mean not overly descriptive to the point of nausea. My wife, who began editing it, hated the writing because it was 'too wordy.' My friend, Dan, who began an edit really like the writing. So who to write to? Well, always write to your audience. My audience is the teenage bracket. That's simplistic. So, I've removed some of the description and made it a little easier on the eyes. I don't want to expose too much of the plot, but just remember that it's about zombies...and it's an awesome story arc!
By the way, we could get our tropical storm next week!
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/204112.shtml?5-daynl?large#contents
Also, on the media horizon for me:
http://www.batmanarkhamasylum.com/start
Until next time...
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