Blog? Vlog? Log? What the ...,

So it says I should have a blog. Everyone has a blog. But what am I supposed to write about? I spend a vast majority of my time writing about other people - I'm not entirely sure that I know how to write something from myself.

So it's my first Blllllooooog - a "Web Log", as a friend explained the word to me! - and I guess I should explain myself and the type of stories I like to write.

I'm a fairly silly, nutty person, (don't know if you could tell) who takes a very light hearted approach to life. I try and eliminate all stress from life; I am vair go with the flow. "The universe tends to unfold as it should," as the movie Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle so wisely taught me. Stressing only ever created more stress, so there ya go. Happy happy, joy joy thoughts.

My writing, on the other hand, tends to lean towards angst. Sometimes dark. A little dirty. Sometimes a lot dirty. I think there are humorous parts - usually from side characters - but on the whole, I don't write humorous book. Not sure how this came about, because I like to read humorous books (seriously, David Wong. I would marry him ..., if both of us weren't already married ..., and if he knew I existed).

I have SIX completed books, awaiting publishing. I wrote one, and I love it, it's kind of like a first born child, but I just knew it wasn't "the one", the first release. So I wrote another story, trying to build up my "alpha male" muscles. I luuuuurve to read about an alpha male, but I didn't write them so well - in real life, I prefer guys like myself; happy-go-lucky, go with the flow, funny. So writing an alpha was kind of foreign to me.

A two part story was born, Pen vs. Sword. I wanted to write something that had an alpha male, a likable female lead, and also represented what I felt was a REAL relationship. None of this two-weeks-oh-we're-in-love-but-we've-never-actually-spoken-because-we're-too-busy-alternately-fucking-and-fighting stuff. I wanted something I, and other women, could relate to in a real sense.

But as I was finishing up the very last draft of the first part - it has been edited and beta read and is basically ready for the publish button - Jameson's story was born.

And I mean, it BURST out of me. I turned into a freakin' zombie. My husband was worried about me. I wrote all night, I snuck into the bathroom at work to write on it, I barely ate, I just wrote, wrote, wrote. The story DEMANDED release, there was no other option.

And as I was typing it, I just kinda new. This was the book. The book, the one that should be first. I made the working title "Degradation", and it just kind of stuck.

The next two pieces of work didn't fall out of me quite as easily - I doubt anything will ever again. Writing Degradation was a unique experience.

I have been writing stories since I learned how to write - no joke. It sounds corny, but it's the truth. In second grade, they made us take computer classes, and they had the Oregon Trail computer "game" (am I showing my age yet!?) and a typing test - one of the portions of the test was free typing. I took to it like a duck to water. I mean, a medium that allowed me to put down the words almost as quickly as I could think them!? Mind. Blown. I now type around 90 wpm, with an 96% accuracy. Comes in handy, for those zombie-writer moments.

I used to write paranormal - all through high school, that was my preferred genre. Vampires, psychic energy, that kind of stuff. Then I stopped writing for a while. I mean, you never really stop, not in your head, but I stopped putting words to paper.

It wasn't until I read a book, and realized it was self-published, that my brain kind of clicked back on. Then, I was reading another self-published book, and in the acknowledgements, the author thanked a particular book blog.

"Book blog? Qoi?" I had to investigate, and OH MY GOD, there are other people out there that read the same stuff I read!? People who love to read and review this stuff!? E.L. James started out writing fanfiction!? She's got a major motion picture coming out!! HOW COULD I NOT KNOW THIS STUFF!?!?

Life. Changed.

So I started writing again. I worried it wouldn't come back as easily. I was wrong. I mean, who knows if I'm good; I think I'm good, but I might just be a tad bias. But the words certainly pour out of me.

So there you have it. My first blog. My first book. I hope you enjoy both. There may be more blogs. There will definitely be more books.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have recently acquired all the seasons of AbFab, and I find myself trying to figure how to turn it into a religion ...