Everything's Better With Strippers!

Well I finally got back into writing my horrible attempt at a novel, and this session resulted in two major changes in the story:

1) My private investigator is literally going insane.

2) I've introduced a stripper informant.

I know the ideas aren't exactly new, but I'm only doing this for fun so I don't care. The insanity is fun because now if I write myself into a corner, I can just use a heaping case of the crazies to let myself out.

Also, since I haven't read good mystery books in a while, I've decided to implement some Raymond Chandler reading in the bathroom, hopefully some of his talent for metaphor will rub off on me faster than a Cheetah on coke.

Some Format Changes (Like Anyone Cares)

As much as I hate organization and structure, I've decided IGTM needs to operate under a routine. Instead of nonsensical posts whenever I feel like, sometime next week I'll integrate the following format for daily posts (open to suggestions for better names or topics) :

Sunday - Things of Awesome
Monday - Rants
Tuesday - Novel Novelizations
Wednesday - Pop Cultatron
Thursday - Thursday Twittles
Friday - Link Out Friday
Saturday -Animal News Day (Yeah, let's see how long this one will last)

Obviously this isn't set in stone, and I'm thinking of implementing some design changes too, but overall I think this will work for the best. That or cause to go down in flames faster than Air Force One in a disaster movie. Ugh, if that pun is any indication probably the latter.

Detection

Well, I got 1716 words done and to be perfectly honest, it's pretty badass. The main character is cool, and I managed to work a bear into the mix which may or may not bite me in the ass later. At the moment it seems like it's a standard mystery/detective book, but with a bear. I'm not sure if it's a parody or ironically detached, but so far I'd read it.

The hardest part so far is deciding the names on the fly, which means they will totally change because some of them are already getting annoying to type. Plus, I'm not sure if a bear really should have a last name, then again he is the assistant...SPOILERS!

Naw, how can I spoil anything, I don't even know what's happening yet. Although keeping in the traditions of the genre, broads will cause drama and hard drinks will be downed. Also, I think the bear will do some soul-searching and learn a little bit about himself.

Novel Novelizations

I've always wanted to attempt to write a novel just to see if I could do it. It wouldn't be particularly well-written, and probably won't make sense, but I don't think that should be the point. Honestly, I just want to write something that I really feel like reading, isn't the idea of creativity supposed to be about having fun with it?

I suppose the first step is figuring out exactly what a novel is supposed to be. The Wikipedia article is far too long to ever consider reading, but the certifiable experts at Yahoo Answers tell me anywhere between 60 000 and 100 000 words.

I suppose this is it then. I'll write a novel, perhaps in a sexy genre, and explain my progress once in a while. I figure mentioning it here on the blog (which no one reads anyway) will make me feel like a dick for getting lazy and NOT writing, and this way I can actually finish my goal. I figure the story will involve a private investigator of some kind, and his assistant may or may not be a sarcastic dame.... A SARCASTIC DAME ROBOT!

Seriously though, I'm going to put some words on paper. I may post something afterward, or take a nap. Depends how sexy the novel gets I suppose.