All the world is a bore, y'know? That is the problem with my writing. It's not that it's bad, it's just bland. Like plain rice, it can nourish you, but surely not sustain you. I find when I try to avoid this nuisance, my writing sounds like "all punch lines". Not good. That might be why poetry appeals to me. Seems I can arrange some words well but not whole bodies of work. I can create a title in a second, and all the chapter names, but don't ask me to write the whole book. In childhood, I loved designing the worlds, environments, and dungeons in D & D and that's where it stopped. Hated actually creating the adventure and hated even more running it.

It's back to the 3 P's for me (pen, paper, practice). Stephen King is right: Story is more important than plot. I know I can overcome these stumbling blocks and write what I want to.

Back to D and D, check out the new Xbox game--played the demo. Very cool: D and D video game.

I just finished listening to the new CD Single of Reckoning Day (Don't Tread on Me) by Iced Earth with their new lead singer (my favorite and yours) Ripper Owens. Reckoning Day is great, sounds like Judas Priest on steroids. I guess you can say sometimes my musical tastes are like a favorite old shirt, I want something that fits well and looks good. Catch my drift? Music doesn't have to always be new but it does always have to sound good.

I'm suffering from the worst writer's block I've had in years right now. Working hard to keep the self doubt out. Isn't it funny how self destructive we humans are? Somehow, I can't picture a beaver getting pissed off. There's no screaming beaver shouting, "Fuck, this dam sucks! I'm never building a fucking 'nother one as long as I god-damn live!" But man does and he's usually throwing things while he does. Man hates everyone, especially himself. Perhaps, we aren't the most intelligent species or the most important.

I read somewhere that a blog is a living document--always changing and always evolving. My own personal journal could fit that description as well. In the future, I think I will be writing more about my personal experiences, travels, feelings, and thoughts because I am living too. And what else can we do but live?

Still thinking about that new 'From the Journals' entry until then keep dreaming your dream. I am and with it, I sleep good, I sleep tight.

-N-

(Now that was a good ending.)