Results of Ruminations

I've been meaning to create a writing log for awhile now. I'm not sure if this'll last (as almost all of my other blogs have faded in my interest), and I'm not sure if I'll be able to have the wherewithal to want  to write after a day of slogging through the process of creating a book. But, regardless of what it'll eventually become, here is what it's supposed to be right now. John Steinbeck somehow managed to write a journal about the experiences of being a writer--particularly with East of Eden , one of his most impressive pieces--most of which were recorded in letter format. Anyway, I'm pretty far from Steinbeck--about as far as a man is from the moon--but I figure that, if nothing else, the process of making a story is a story in and of itself, and I love to write stories. Writ in Blood I am currently writing a book called Writ in Blood . Using yWriter5 software, I can actually plot out how the timeline of the process has taken shape. In Febru