Books: Amped

I just finished reading the book, Amped by Daniel H. Wilson.

I really enjoyed the book Robopocalypse that Wilson also wrote. When I say Amped at the library I had to pick it up.

It was a fun, easy, fast read. It is one of those books that reads fast and feels like a movie in your head.

--Good stuff. I recommend it!

Quotes of the Week

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
--Mark Twain

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
--Mark Twain

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
--Virginia Woolf

I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
--James Joyce

The first draft of anything is shit.
--Ernest Hemingway

Always be a poet, even in prose.
--Charles Baudelaire

Literature — creative literature — unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
--Gertrude Stein

True Stories...

I may have to write a story about a haunting.

 A true story...

The series of photos above were taken by my security system when the motion sensors were set off in the middle of the night.

I have the sensor set pretty high the neighborhood cat or clouds above don't set the system off.

Click on the image. Check out the ghost that the first frame captured...

--It would be so creepy if this was my last post ever!

Reading: The Remaining

I just finished reading the first four books in the series called, The Remaining by D.J. Molles.

I sucked these books down super fast.

These books have several things I really enjoy in fiction:

• ZOMBIES!
• Post apocalypse dystopia.
• Good gun content.
• Well depicted action.
• Good character development.

I even love screaming at the open book when I think they have made a wrong decision. Character make mistakes!

This is my favorite kind of summer reading.

--These were so good I could not wait for summer.

Running Late

I am running late this morning.

Running dry on Blog fodder too. Enjoy this photo of trees that I saw on Pinterest when I should have been writing.

I had one of those rare, incredibly productive days at work yesterday. The excellent kind of day when to time goes by fast and happy.

Maybe I will post more later.

--Because both of my reader are very demanding!

Writers Vacation

I was talking with my wife about my novel and how it's coming. As always the topic of time, or lack there of, came up.

I swear if I had a full week to focus I could finish off this book in a 40 hour work week.

Then a "Writers Vacation" came up.

What would be the perfect writers vacation be?

• Beautiful relaxing place.
• Electricity.
• Secluded.
• Great bed for good sleep.
• Coffee.
• No Internet.
• Good food close by.
• Comfy work spaces.

--That is almost the same list I have for retirement!

Happened Again

No work last night. Dammit.

Distractions abound.

The list of things I did do last night:

• Yoga
• Internet - Email
• Configured my new security camera.
• Internet - Facebook
• Dinner with wife
• Internet - Pinterest
• Tivo - Continuum 
• Internet - Blogging
• Tivo - Game of Thrones
• Internet - Posting as my Cat
• Bedtime.

--Opps. Forgot to work on my book. SLACKER!