A case of the winds... of change. ;)

Having made some changes in how I navigate around the net, I've started this blog to post thoughts and what kind of progress I've made with my manuscripts. And anything else I can think of in a stream of consciousness sort of format. If you want to call it that... and so grammar and what not goes out the window when the right side of my brain takes over.

I had an interesting dream last night, I dreamed, or dreamt, that I was hanging around with some fellows from Mirage, a publishing company. They were not necessarily good at publishing, but instead were better at drawing and writing stories, similar to what I do, only they have done so with more degree of success. Yet the message I got was that our capabilities were generally the same.
One of the men who worked there, who had long, blond hair and dark plastic rimmed glasses like from the 50's and 60's, was arranging a shelf in their store, (it looked like a grocery store, interestingly enough) which carried all the products they have licensed, and even produced a CD of the music they liked to listen to while working. I really wanted one of those CDs, but when I asked the guy to help me, he started getting into a snit about something, and started weeping. He said he was overloaded, wasn't cut out to stock shelves, and his workload was backed up. He wasn't cut out for administrative work.
Another guy, who looked a lot like Steve Murphy, came over and listened to his grievances. He kept trying to convince him to keep going, because he was doing good work. The fellow in the long hair and glasses kept shaking his head, and then I woke up asking him the question,"What is your forte? What do you excel in? That is where your worth lies. The rest is just a job. Don't let it eat you up."
Hm. Interesting thought to begin the day...

I have been discussing my book Fall of the Onyx with my kids, (which I'm revising and arranging the content for the final time before retyping the manuscript, the next revision will be editing for spelling, etc) and in the telling sometimes one can work out plot snags. I should do that more often. Talk into a tape recorder, or something. I have a couple lying around... I should be using them. This book is complicated. But I have so much to tell, and there's probably about 4 subplots going. One is a flashback, the other are from different characters' P.O.V. You know, that "meanwhile, back at the ranch" sort of things a majority of novels have.
Since my short term memory is not the best, it's a bit difficult to remember who was doing what before the next thing happens, so in telling the story in synopsis in an audio form, it helps give my memory a jump start and get back into the cadence of the story. I think it also helps when you haven't been working on the book for a bit, and when it's hard to get going on it, and regain momentum and enthusiasm.
Plus having a 3 ring binder with plenty of colored tabs and such for notations and page markers.
I need to get a laptop holder, and a portable, adjustable side table so that I'm not hunched over when it comes time to revise the manuscript on the computer. I've getting hunchbacked, and this isn't helping matters any.