Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts

25.7.09

salutations

my goal is to start maintaining this blog as my personal writing space. I use myspace for some various blogs, with a pretty good exposure rate, but I need (want) something segregated, I guess. not entirely sure why, just do.

I intend to start posting here more and more frequently, especially as my life picks up some momentum.

it would seem I'm moving to seattle in a few days, to stay with abi shortly, then off to maui. yea, I know.

started reading the sookie stackhouse mysteries, absolutely love them! trueblood is a great show. and to make it better, I just finished torchwood: children of earth. like a fucking media miracle to have such good shows to watch. mmm. I can't wait till doctor who!

other than that, I don't have too much to say yet. I miss kolt, which is a given, and we talked for four hours yesterday which meant a lot to me. I want him back in my life. I don't know if it's reasonable to think if I grow, I can have him around again. he says that's the case, so I can hope, but it's so complicated. just miss him so much. he means the world to me.

location: home pro tem (spanaway, wa) then seattle monday
reading: codex alera 1 (jim butcher), the book of physics and god (enrique joven), living dead in dallas (charlaine harris)
music: halo (beyoncé)

17.7.09

accomplishments

so, somehow, I did all of the things I said I was going to do in my last blog. which is to say, I went to seattle with abi (blast! love cher), saw harry potter 6 (boo! not impressed. colour story?), played around with this guy, and now I'm getting ready to go to mt. rainier for a *really* late-starting camping trip.

finished harry potter 7, easy; also finished fragment, which I loved. very much a book-to-movie kind of story. absolutely loved the evolutarionary principles the author posits, including that cells die as a means of preventing genetic breakdown over generations. oh! brilliant.

then I read the physick book of deliverance dane which was simply amazing. about a woman who discovers an actual witch in the history of the salem witch trials, and it's one of her ancestors. she learns she too possesses abilities, and it's a really well-developed character. loved it.

oh yea, and I read last call by jim butcher, it was in an anthology released like a week ago, so I was excited to pick it up. very cool. apparently mac is *not* a wizard. whodathunkit?

location: home pro tem (spanaway, wa) then to mt. rainier
reading: codex alera 1 (jim butcher), the book of physics and god (enrique joven)
music: want (3oh!3); the fame (lady gaga); the complete studio recordings (abba)
word count: ~800 (eep, I know!)

14.7.09

introductions

this is my first post here on blogger, for which I'm pretty excited. I've decided to create a writer's journal, showcasing excerpts, storylines, plots, characters, whatever, about the work I'm doing as a career-minded author-to-be.

my name is cody trotter, I don't enjoy capital letters when I'm blugging, except for where they really matter, and if I can build up enough steam, I'm gonna take the literary world by storm. ha. I'm comin'.

I also figure I'll have a series of addendums for each post, so that you guys always know what's going on with my life (and so I can keep track for myself! this stuff could be important!).

for those of you wondering, yes, I'm concurrently reading three books. eff you.

I'm working on a couple pieces of writing right now. the first is a short story called crimson halo, a vampire homoerotica that is actually in response to a call for submission, in which I introduce a vampire from my own mythos who falls in love with a human boy (twilight but good?); the oak and holly is another short story featuring a magical, demigod-owned-and-operated b&b that disappears and reappears around the world when-and-where it is needed; a day in the life of charly (and other normal tales of abnormal people) is a book of seven eccentrics and how they behave in everyday life; and the seven sad stories of sal is a satire about the misadventures of salvadore goodfellow in life, love, and the world. these seem to be some of the more prominent projects on my table, though I've got a lot of full-length fantasy/sci-fi work that I intend to do later, too.

tomorrow? going to seattle with abi. watching harry potter 6 tomorrow night (woot!), then maybe spending the day in bondage wednesday, then a camping trip this weekend with arielle at mt. rainier. awesome.

location: home pro tem (spanaway, wa)
reading: harry potter 7 (duh); fragment (william fahy); codex alera 1 (jim butcher)
music: want (3oh!3); the fame (lady gaga)
word count: ~800