Bond, James Bond.

I've been on a Bond binge recently because my roommate re-inspired me to read the novels. I read them when I was younger, in high school. They were good books to grow up with. I stopped at "The Spy Who Loved Me." I tend to read things chronologically. It's the little bit of OCD in me.

I'm currently listening to one of the soundtracks, The Living Daylights. I actually really liked that movie, and it's one of my top Bond films. My list is something like From Russia With Love, Goldeneye, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Living Daylights.

My 21st birthday is coming this Saturday. I honestly just want to go to a casino and play blackjack while sipping a Cosmo or something like that.


So to date, I have 20 short stories and 14 novels on my list. Less than a quarter of that is actually written. Well, now, there's no time to waste, is there?

It's weird juggling this science and writing parts of me. I go to school and I don my lab coat. Then when I'm off on weekend or a break, I put on my writer's cap.

I'm thinking of doing a segment for my youtube channel called "Book of the Week." I'm trying to really update my channel. A lot of people like the music videos I have and I keep getting comments. But I want to post other things. I'm also doing it for YWO, the writing forum I've been in since I was in high school.

But anyway, back to the writing bit. I've always felt the need to work quickly. I get the paranoid feeling that my ideas will be obsolete or cliche once I actually publish them and get it out. I saw the Adjustment Bureau yesterday (It's based on a Philip K. Dick story) and I cringed when part of the plot was revealed. Apparently the Adjustment Bureau controls the world to bring humanity to glory. They stopped it at the peak of Roman civilization to see what would happen and instead the Dark Ages came. So they interfered again and the Renaissance and the Enlightenment happened. My major fantasy series, The Lost Legacy is the reverse of that. There's a conspiracy involving a race of beings that have tried to put down humanity and influenced them into the Dark Ages.

But I'm starting with my short stories first. I'm close to finishing the first collection of them. People like the stories. Just need some editing here and there. It's not so much that I have writer's block. I hardly do. It's the overwhelming amount of ideas I get and how I become sidetracked. I write one fantasy story but then I think, "That story about the busboy at the club who unknowingly serves the mafia sounds like it could be amazing." So I go to that and write the first page when I slap myself in the face and go, "FOCUS, FOCUS. Back to the fantasy story first! Then you can do this!"