I Promise I’ve Been Trying

Today is an exciting one, in just an hour and a half I should have more information than I know what to do with concerning any potential employment opportunity in Uganda.  I can’t say that I know what to expect and I have multiple scenarios of how the conversation could go floating through my head, speculation is my enemy at this point.  Really I am not nervous but just anxious.

I have literally been fighting off this cold since a day or two after I got back from Amsterdam so roughly a week.  My desire and my mind has been on writing but the energy and focus and creativity have not been there.  I’ve missed a few opportunities because my fleeting energy has been spent on other commitments, oh and the Alps but I forgive myself that trespass on my health because c’mon, it’s the Alps.

I have been reading however.  A book called Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.  This is my first Follett book and I have to say I am not so impressed.  The scale of the story is as immense as the volume (just under 1,000 pages) but I really do not care for the prose and I can’t tell if Mr. Follett thinks the reader is stupid or forgetful.  He has a way of reminding the reader of events by outrightly explaining them multiple times in an effort to establish an emotion he is trying to achieve or he just tells you in more words than are necessary how he wants you to feel.  I understand that this type of work is a departure from his typical stuff but I hope he doesn’t write suspense novels by constantly rehashing details and telling the reader when to be scared and not.

It’s not a terrible book and the subject matter is the real draw for me (the building of churches) but it is just not what I was expecting.  I was hoping for epic and classic and obsessive but instead got blockbuster and mired and absurd at times.  Eh, I’m still reading it and should have it done soon anyhow.

As far as my own story telling I have not done much more than think about where I’d like to go with characters.  A great man said to quit writing before the entire idea is down so that it is still alive in your head and I would like to use that sentiment to cover my lethargy over the last two weeks.  It is time to quit thinking though and being freshly napped I should have the energy tonight to seclude myself in my musings.