Trying To Be Productive

Why do I try on weekends? Its inevitable that the lazy bug will bite me. I'm terribly bad at fighting the lazy bug when he comes. He's a big nasty ugly bug with sharp teeth that paralyzes me with fear every time so he takes a big chunk out of me and forces me to do nothing.

Yup! That's the lazy bug for you.

He bit me this morning.

That means I did accomplish a few things last night. (Like well into the wee hours of the morning)

I did two more reviews, these for Ariel over on Mossip.

Who did I review?

Movin' Melvin Brown who is old school R & B of the finest caliber. Check out the review here.

And then there was Spy For Hire, a bit of an 80s sounding band from GA. I really dig them as well, check out my review here.

Again, I can't stress the importance of giving support to local artists trying to make it or those indie bands you hear on Myspace and the like. There is good music out there. Loads of it. Most of these artists I've been discovering are so much better than what's in the mainstream.

I think I have one more review to do, and I hope to get it done this weekend, because I'd like to do a random review or two in the coming days. I'd also like to start working on some short stories again. Its been a long time. Nearly 2 years, since I tried my hand at creating a character or letting someone from real life try to become fictional. Well this week I asked my LJ friends to give me a song or two that I could turn into a story.

I had two suggestions:

Peter Noone's Absent Minded Heart

and

Elvis Costello's Just About Glad.

I'm going to do both over a period of time. If there's interest at some point I may share my scribblings with the world. That's the only productivity I hope to accomplish today.

I Started Writing Again!

For the millionth time yesterday I started a story. This one is a bit different in some ways. Three people in my life may notice I've characterized them. I don't usually do that but I was writing in friends for my main characters...who appeared in a story I started last year but abandoned. I've abandoned at least 3 stories all around the same characters this year. Not a good thing.

This time I decided to take Danielle and Robin's story and give it a twist. I'm turning it into a romantic fairytale with a small twist.

I managed to get a whole page written last night. I'm not getting excited about that though, because that's how far I've gotten into several stories since last February, when I seemed to acquire a total block. I'm hoping this one will be the one that allows me to go on from page one.

I'm not holding out much hope though. With all the things going on in my life I don't know how I'll be able to sit down and actually try to get the story down. I just don't have the time to do that, and when I do I have no inspiration.

All I seem to be able to handle these days is blogging and that's not very satisfying to a person that loves to write. I guess the main problem I have is that I haven't had a plot I truly liked. In the past, my stories have lived in my head waiting to jump out. Not so with anything I've attempted recently. Maybe this one will be different. The idea hasn't left my head recently, it's just been a matter of forcing myself to sit down and actually write. I never thought I'd say that doing that was hard.

I guess we'll see in the coming days if I can get that ball rolling. My friends on Livejournal will know, because I'm going to be posting the story over there.

Wish me luck.