Ok, I surrender...

While my manuscript is being edited, I have decided to try the world of blogging to keep in practice and better express my politically incorrect thoughts.  Those who chose to subscribe to my madness, I salute you!

Perhaps I should start this off as: "Stardate: Captain's log- March 30, 2012." Yes, that sounds about right because basically that's what Captain Kirk did only he had the technology to speak his blog.  I am from the sticks where they barely have colored television and the internet connection fades in and out. So, please forgive me if the lack of a my Microsoft Word doesn't catch the run-on sentences, misspelled words, and strange punctuation at any time in this space.

For the past year, starting in May, I have been stationed in a comfy, sunken-in, brown sectional with my trusty cup-o-Joe on one side of me and a cigarette rolling out smoke-shaped dragons over my laptop from the other. Ticking my way one word, sentence, paragraph, page, and chapter at a time is how I got this far and let me tell you, it was NOT an easy task.

Except for taking a few creative writing classes in junior college (yes, we have those here) and a memoir class that I took in Troy, New York over the past year, I have kept a real pen-to-paper journal for most of my adult life. And until the young, spunky girl at the gym the other day said "Yes ma'am" to one of my questions, I hadn't realized just how long it had been. So, the art of blogging is a whole new frontier for me. My only problem with this "New Frontier" is that I don't know if I'm doing it right or if this.... "thing"... has a spell-check.

I am a new writer, of the typing sort, that is, but I think I am getting better at it, learning as I go along. Learning how to put a colored title on the top of my chapters took about six months and I just recently learned how to double-space....

My editor being in New York must be some sort of a saint, having patience with me as I learned how to send my whole manuscript over the internet and not as a PDF (and don't even ask me what I thought PDF stands for).

My memoir is almost finished but it has taken quite a bit of blood, sweat, and tears to get it to the point where it can actually be looked at by someone who knows how to shape it up. I am quite proud of the work I have done, I really never thought I would get this far in the attempt to share my crazy story in the written word but none the less it is getting closer to the point to where it can be published.

I have been stuck, frustrated, confused, and downright bewildered as to how I would pull off this gargantuan project that I, myself, laid upon my own shoulders but as I have recently learned, IT CAN BE DONE.. I wrote a book, I can certainly figure out the blogging world, I hope. How Hard can it be, right?

There is no specific subject that I will cover daily, just pure randomness but I will report to log in each and every day until my editor sends my manuscript back with what to do next. So until then, I hope you enjoy my point of view. I hope I don't offend anyone and if I do, get over your damn self; this isn't your blog now, is it?

I apologize for my short post this entry but my stomach has a ring around it, resembling a small planet and I must return to the  "Death Star" (the gym) to get it operational for a bikini that I am never going to wear.

Quirk Out-