In the midst of the prettiest week of the year - it's sunny and 70! - I have a dark cloud hanging over me. Apparently there is a target on my back at work because I was sick enough to get a check up. Shocking how you can be given Sick Days, and then chastised for using them... Regardless, I'm feeling a little better. Don't know where the bout of wooziness came from, but it seems to be dissipating. Writing WITNESS has been fun. I'm goin to the Yard on Sunday; supposedly it will be in the 80s! Life could be worse, but I wouldn't know it with weather like this.

Today was...interesting. Power went out at work so I left half a day. As the power went out, we had a downpour with hail. Abrubtly it stopped and gave way for the bluest sky in literally 2 seconds. And I'm very anxiety free. I feel very good about a lot of things, most notably Witness.

I'm blogging from the iPhone today. Can't write at the moment, but I have a clear head. Pill overload this past weekend. Sober but in pain today. Mistve come with the rain... I will be studying tonight, but I'm sure I'll open up Witness too.

Well the assimilation of the original Book 2 and what I had envisioned for the series's finale has begun to come together really well. I'm happy with it. I now have direction. The scope of the book is epic. 30 pages down.

While UNIQUE marinates... (Some notes:) My plan for the series AFTER MAN was to conclude the story way far in the future, thousands of years. That's one of the reasons I wanted to write vampire stories - they can live quite a long life if they're careful enough. So, what kind of world would these creatures inhabit 10,000 years after mankind relinquished power? Turns out, that's a work in progress. But this is how I wanted to introduce the second novel. I wanted it to begin in the far future, because personally I don't want to wait 20 years for the opportunity to write what I want to write today. So, the limited pages of notes I have for the finale will be Incorporated to Book 2. I'm okay with this, I guess. Book 2's plot is only a few decades after the first story, but I wanted a way to time travel these characters without a time machine. Now, Book 2's plot deals mostly with Evander's search for Tammie - directly where we leave off in UNIQUE , and his ...

These days, it's hard to get out of the house. If it isn't money, it's depression, or just plain old laziness. But with the arrival of Spring, I have no choice. I simply cannot sit in the house all of the time. The warmer weather is an aphrodisiac for me. And the warm weather also brings back baseball. So yesterday I spent the day at Oriole Park at Camden Yards for the Orioles FanFest. Apart from the gale-force winds, it was an incredible day. There were loads of fans in orange and black, and I personally got to see our new pitcher Koji Uehara! My nephew and my friend's son got along wonderfully and I'm sunburned (or windburned, I'm not sure). Weather like this is the only thing that certifiably quaffs my depression. Oh, and on another note, I've just finished my cover letter and resume for potential internship at Baltimore Magazine. But, right now, it's beautiful out, and I'm going to enjoy it. Till next time...