First things first - Check out my site now bitches!! Yes, Yes it does rock. - www.JeremyBoland.com

It took a lot of fiddling and code writing and screwing around, and a couple of days, but I finally have this new kick ass looking site up and going. My site and my blog, which were once two separate entities are now one and the same, and all my old pages are here too. I’m not sure if I’m going to leave it opening onto my blog or make a front page but that can all come later.

My old site still exists, at least for the moment, at www.jeremyboland.com/old/.

Doug of the Darkness has reached the 10,000 word mark, and it’s still going strong-ish. If your not up to date with Doug of the Darkness or haven’t even read Doug of the Darkness, you should head over to the Doug of the Darkness website and start reading Doug of the Darkness now. You won’t be borry.

What else, What else, what else? Isn’t it always like that. You go into writing a blog entry thinking ‘how will I fill it all in?’ and then halfway through you forget all the topics you wanted to go over.

The other day I came up with a completely new idea for a book. What I mean is - Most of the things I’ve worked on in the last (I don’t know how long) have been rewrites of old stuff, working on old ideas or it was based on two old ideas put together… so on and so forth in that fashion, you get the idea.

I mentioned it in passing in the last entry but that was only when it was an inkling of an instigating circumstance. But slowly it grew in my head and at the worst possible moment, while I was at work, more and more ideas hit me. Between customers and fixing a cupboard door that fell off it’s hinges I wrote a whole synopsis of a back story for the novel in my moleskine.

(I’m very excited about this)

I’m not sure if it’s going to be one persons stories (probably in first person) or a series of interrelated stories that encompass the whole events… I’m leaning toward the latter. Just know, I have some great ideas for it either way and I can’t wait to get started on it.

But first, my workspace could do with a bit of a tidy up…

Also excited about - Act One of Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is released today. I’m a big Whedon fan, Fillion fan and Doogie Fan, So this is just Awesome.

In other news, I just finished reading Hal Spacejock 4: No Free Lunch, and I recommend it to anyone who likes fun and light scifi about interesting characters with quite a few laugh out loud moments. Not only is this a great series, by the way, but they work as stand alone novels as well, There are references to previous novels but nothing that would confuse a new reader.

At the moment I’m reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury and I’m loving it. My favourite section so far is ‘Night Meeting’… with ‘And the Moon be still as bright’ coming up second.

Anyway, I think that’s all for now. In the mean time check out this hilarious clip of Patrick Stewart in Extras

P.S. - Do people actually buy these things?

NOW WITH PICTURES!

Welcome to Bore-a-thon 3000, Part one of a fourteen part series.

In an amazing coincidence The Bore-a-thon coincides with my holidays, to the day in fact. So for everyday of my holidays I will be blogging with progress updates and pretty pretty photos of what I’ve been up to.

Enjoy!

First photo up - My Moleskine. I don’t go anywhere without this superior note taking device. I’ve been using Moleskine’s for a couple of years now and swear by them. If you don’t use a Moleskine, I suggest running out and buying one now. Your notes will thank you for it.

The cover is an oilcloth-covered cardboard. It has an elastic band to hold it closed, a sewn spine so it can lay flat when opened, a ribbon bookmark and an expandable pocket inside the rear cover.

And apparently Moleskine’s are making major cameo’s in movies. Here’s Will Ferrel’s in Stranger than Fiction. - Link

This morning, I did a bit of reading. I’m reading Brave New World at the moment. It’s an amazing story set in a dystopian future of a genetically engineered, hypnopaedian trained populous and an outsider protagonist just trying to understand his place. And by Ford, it’s good.

After that, I got to work. I began working on the short story I wanted to work on from an old first chapter I found (re: previous entry) I actually got a bit done, I’m adding a couple of parts that weren’t in the original just to add extra purpose to the protag’s actions.

Then I had some Pizza Pockets for lunch.

And threw the ball to the dog.

I’m on fire!

Check in tomorrow for more Bore-a-thon 3000!!!