So it Begins

Well, hello everyone.
In mid December I told you that I would be doing a full decade in review. My first part ended off somewhere in 2005. I have since decided that some events are still a bit too recent to share in this format. For now anyway. Don't worry, I'll still manage to bore you with those events in some detail at a later time. You may be asking yourself, "how?" Well the answer is quite easy actually. A semi-autobiographical novel. Yes, you read that right.

Last summer I was made aware of a competition at in which people must write 50,000 words or more in a period of 30 days. I was tempted to join last year and write a work of historical fiction. I guarantee that work would have been mediocre at best considering the extremely limited time frame I had. I decided I would do it this year instead. In a sense I can keep the genre of historical fiction as it will be semi-autobiographical. The most common piece of advice I have come across from books, websites and writers is "write what you know". Well, I know me. I know my past. I also know some other things which is where the fiction part will come in. Gore Vidal has said it took four years of research to write one of his works of historical fiction, "Lincoln". I don't really have that much time at the moment. Perhaps later on in life. Ten months seems like enough time to research myself and a few other things to put together a novel of sorts. The semi-autobiography idea came to me on New Year's eve when the first five pages literally just came to me. I should note that I was drunk at the time. As many know when you are drunk certain ideas that seem good at the time often seem like bad ones the next morning. This one didn't fall into that category. I woke up the next morning and I still had those five pages in my head so I put them down on paper and was pleased with it. I knew I could do this when I re-read it a few days later and still liked it. That is my goal for this year.

If all goes according to plan I will be in University come September. I sent in the applications about a month ago now and have been acknowledged by all the school's I have applied to. All I have to do now is write them a little 1000 word piece about my life since leaving high school and why I think I can succeed at University. Sounds easy enough.

In about a week I'll be taking a short trip to the great metropolis of Kirkland Lake. Why? To see Blue Rodeo once again, of course. I'm hoping that the weather will co-operate as I will have a long walk ahead of me from the venue to my hotel. If google maps is to be trusted the walk is about 6 km. Normally I wouldn't mind but winter weather and I do not get along well.

That is all for now. Farewell.