I’ve been computerless for almost two whole weeks. On Saturday my roommate went laptop shopping so I tagged along and purchased a netbook. Oh, I guess I should say why I’ve been without a laptop (and still am if you consider a netbook different from a laptop – which I do).
About two weeks ago as I’ve already said, my laptop screen decided to go haywire. Kind of annoying, but I try to look at the bright side of things. So what did I do? I decided to give myself a general break from work and writing. I devoted my time to reading (and most of that focused on Greek and Roman mythology for future reference). During that time, I also read Rick Riordan’s Sea of Monsters (second book in the Percy Jackson series). Wow, I had almost forgotten how well his writing flows, but that book reminded me.
Anyway, my laptop is still in for repairs and with no idea of when they will be completed. I’m not too worried, but it’s gotten me thinking that I could get used to this netbook. I mean, aside from work, anything else I could want to do can be accomplished on here (the netbook, not my site).
So today I was doing some web reading and thinking and decided that perhaps it’s not too bad of an idea to consider self-publishing my first series. I mean it requires a lot more from me, but at least it gets me in the market and doesn’t tie down my books into contracts with undesirable ebook terms. If that’s the way of the future (which I believe it is), then courts and the legal system may allow those contracts to change, but why jump into some contract without such certainty. Then again, I’d still market my books to publishers at first (and probably accept a contract if a publisher wanted it – aren’t I confusing). Before I dig a deeper hole of confusion, let’s just say I’m thinking self-publishing has gained some respect that it didn’t used to have (I’m not predicting the demise of the publishing industry, just saying self-publishing is not always considered “slush” anymore).
Oh, I began reading The Princess Bride as well. Wow, the anniversary edition notes sure are long. But I’m enjoying the book anyway (it’s kooky but not to the point that it’s overwhelming). I do think I like the book.
It seems like I began reading some other books as well, but I’m having a harder time remembering what. Oh, I began reading Bulfinch’s Mythology as well. I’ve always wanted to see how the Greek/Roman gods are all related (many people will know that the Greek and Roman gods were generally all related). I found it quite a fun experience to map out the connections between the different ones and to see how many women…Zeus/Jupiter went after. Also, I plan to read all the Greek/Roman plays (as many as I can get my hands on, and beginning with the Iliad and the Odyssey) and think it’ll be nice to have a chart of the relations of the gods and a basic understanding of who each one is.
Without looking at my last post, I believe I promised to think of topics in the writing/reading world to blog about. Well, I did make that list, but it’s on my laptop, so I don’t have access to it right now. But I thought it’d be good to write a new post in the meantime.