Episode #103: I'm Still Here And I'm Still Sitting

The picture to the left is to simply and officially notify one and all that the first measly snowstorm has hit Connecticut. Nothing as even remotely severe as the pic, but more like the panic hysteria that the south gets when they see a snowflake.

WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Anywho, I decided to let everyone know that I'm still alive and butt-surfing the chair of mediocrity. However, since originality is still among the missing in action this year {after all, I'm in the process of doing my 3rd re-write, so originality has gone out the window like the entertainment industry hiring the best actors for a given role}, we decided to mine one of my other blogs, in the case Father Nature's Corner, for extra help.

Now unlike my first blog, Cedar's Mountain, which is chock full of interesting content, it was a bit of a struggled to find something worthwhile to mine with this one. With Father Nature's Corner, I was getting a bit more pessimistic with my blogging. It was during that blog in which I was posting to the dark side {Tumblr} as well, so a lot of my posts have tons of broken links {that is, non-functional due to me nuking that blog when I created this blog a few years ago} and some non-functional videos that apparently violated some archaic YT rule that caused them to vanish.

But I did manage to find a post from early 2016 that contains no broken links and a passing reference to my defunct Tumblr blog. This post covers two topics: movies and food.

Specifically, movies with a food based plot lines, and my now adult daughter's dietary change {carnivore to vegetarian} that's now been going on for over 5 1/2 years now.

Now I actually do like these kind of dramas, as I'm always a sucker for these, whether they be theatrical releases, which is what this old post is about, or a Hallmark movie release, which I really did enjoy back when I used to watch the telly.

So let's enter the Yesterday Machine and head back to the spring of 2016, and let's check out four of my favorite food themed movies. Feel free to add yours in the comments below, as well as your thoughts on the vegetarian/vegan lifestyle {although vegan doesn't apply here since daughter does like some dairy products}.

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Episode #102: Gluttony Is A Writer's Sin Of Major Proportions

Greetings and Salutations to one and all!

The picture of a star is in direct response to hearing Christmas music while grocery shopping this past Sunday {11/7}, as I needed something decidedly non-Christmas, IMO, to counteract this serious breach of holiday protocol.

Anyways, on to the topic of the day: gluttony.

The traditional sense of the word means, in very crass terms, porking out at the proverbial dinner table {something that I often did in my younger days, to my now adult dismay}. In the non-traditional sense of the word, it means consistently starting new projects while you have others in various stages of completion patiently waiting to cross that finish line.

I already have two manuscripts completed that have gone through two rounds of editing each and are waiting for me to make my next move. The next move for them probably won't happen until the Spring 2022. The next move for me was to find something to occupy my time again.

Don't know about you, but lately I've been feeling kind of rudderless when I'm in between projects, especially being retired and all that stuff. So I decided to revert back to when I had lots of energy and gumption for my writing. Back then, I used to do all kinds of writing because I had so much creative energy to burn.

But, like with all issues since early July '21, is trying to find projects to work on. Everything is all scattered helter skelter in our seriously deconstructed basement. I lucked out on the first project because everything got waterlogged and had to move everything to the dining room. I lucked out on the 2nd because the basement wasn't completely deconstructed yet.

The 3rd required some searching since everything was deconstructed, and after finding a couple of possibles, I was able to find a challenging suitable: 50% already re-written and 50% needing to be re-written, and all of it mind-numbingly cringey. Every. Single. Page.

And of course, it has no title and the bare military grade minimum for a dual plotline. So yeah, lots of fun with this one. And just to give you an idea on how long this was last touched, apparently the red ink I used for making editing notes back then has now turned to a light umber.

McYummy!

So yeah, fun times ahead, especially trying to figure out how to get plot #1 (which I think I still remember) to plot #2, which is a funeral. Not sure why I though writing about a funeral would be a solid plot line to work with, but this should be interesting read/work on.

So gluttony can be a good thing as a writer, especially if you have an unlimited amount of creative energy to burn off. Prepping can be good, but over prepping can eventually drive you sane.

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