Well I’m far due for another post. That’s all I have to say about my great blogging.

I just received in the mail a copy of Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 18th Edition. I’m looking forward to flipping through it. As of late (well, I’ve always been this way, but more so recently) I’ve taken up the hobby of collecting Wikipedia articles on different mythology, legends, fairy tales and lesser-known historical fact. Yes, one could argue that Wikipedia is not always considered a great source for accurate information, but I believe it a decent starting place.

But I’ve dreamed ever since 2004 of owning a copy of Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and now I have one. I’ll be able to consult that for all the historical fantasy that I might need or find interesting. And it’s not too late to begin delving into such information because as soon as I finish writing my first series, I plan to delve into a much…“larger” writing project that I intend to enrich with historical and mythological context (after all, the major idea behind that expected series is the battle between old and new).

Enough of Brewer’s Dictionary, however.

On Tuesday of this week I finished reading J. M. Barrie’s “Peter and Wendy” as well as a reread of Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger.” I must say that Peter Pan in his original creation is a lot more…arrogant than I expected. While Peter Pan is a great story, he’s evolved over the decades into a much more child-friendly character than his originations. On the other hand, The Gunslinger is still a great book – can’t say much more than that because I’m dying to read the entire Dark Tower series much more than any of the individual books in the series.

I’m hitting some snags with my writing. Okay, it’s more like I remained stuck in a snag last week but have begun to escape during this week. My problem is that I appear to be (not yet verified by me yet) more of a planner than a “see where it goes” type of writer but I don’t know how to plan. So my typical storytelling schedule goes something like this: I get on a large writing spree only to find myself then stuck in a scene that I’m not familiar with. Then I stew around for a few days or a week trying to figure out what happens next. That doesn’t often work but guilt begins to factor in – guilt that I’m not working on my story. I try to plow on and eventually do find my way through the scene, finding myself once more on a writing spree until I hit the next unknown scene. Some would call this writer’s block. I just call it a failure to know my own story.

Oh. On a different note, I purchased Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in Spanish just yesterday and am enjoying that book once more. I’d like to read the entire Harry Potter series in Spanish (I’ve read it numerous times in English) but I’m kind of tired of my attempts at starting with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – I know that book too well.

You might be bored out of your misery or wondering why I think I can blog and keep my posts interesting. Well, me too, but practice does help…so give me a chance before tossing me out with the rotten eggs – yes, that’s the whole reason for the title, so forgive me if you expected to learn about rotten eggs. I’ll make a list for myself of things I can/should write about so that maybe someone somewhere can get something somehow out of me.