Late August, 8 and 49

This is the last week in August, which means to me and my family, birthdays and anniversary.

Tomorrow, the 29th, my younger brother Me Too, I mean Douglas, turns 48, then on the 31st, mine and Cheryl's Eighth Anniversary, followed on September 1st by Birthday #49, and then on the 3rd by birthday 14 for Douglas's middle child Brandon and the 4th by Cheryl's younger brother Bill's birthday.

When I grew up, because of the way Labor Day weekend happens to be the first Monday of September, my birthday would sometimes be closed. You could go nowhere because it fell on Labor Day and everything was shut down. Not very fun.

Last weekend we were away and I was not able to write Thursday through Sunday. We went off to my cousin's wedding. Another event for celebration at this time of the month.

But right before leaving, an idea for a new project hit me:

Genghis Khan's Rules for (Warriors) Writers

A look at the techniques to make you prepared for being published

in an age where the world of Publishing is beset

by the Horde of Writers who have learned these rules

The Genghis Khan project was finished in first draft today. I will do an excerpt when I release it rather than when today. I plan to go through the second draft this week, as well as the second draft of the 3rd Trolling book. I have renamed this to Trollings Pass and Present. The Bears wasn't quite right, and there really is a Rollins Pass. Now it becomes a play on word on Past and Present

One of the things my research came up with though is how writers can be larger than life. We know Hemingway was. Did you know that Balzac drank fifty cups of coffee a day? I need to have some quirk or oddity that will become legend when i am gone.

I have done things that I think of larger than life, though I have not done enough. I have been places that others desire and wish to go to and have not had the opportunity to go to. But there is more I want to see. I have been places that I want to see again for I have a different perspective now then i had before.

Hopefully by the end of next weekend we will have a couple more books to put up for publication!