Magna Cartas

I'm bored and can't sleep and I wrote this down in my notebook earlier meaning to blog about it so this seems like a perfect opportunity. The lists are far from perfect or complete...just so you know...

MC I

-back-tingling moments (sam says spine but shes wrong :))
-using will power to overcome adversity
-intense moments
-logical flow to storylines-i.e. things make sense at the end
-cliffhangers
-friendship
-bad guys who think they are right/justified villians
-talking to readers
-humour
-lightsabers
-shoot outs
-new technology
-puzzles
-complicated characters with redeeming qualities
-flashbacks and flashforwards...i.e. Lost: this show is ridiculously good and Jill did this really well in her book.

MC II

-out of character moments
-jerks for no reason
-nice people doing bad things
-overly aggressive characters
-pretentious authors (looking at you Katie ;))
-unimportant deaths

Its a much shorter list because I really enjoy most books, they usually all have some redeeming/ interesting quality about them and after attempting a novel you appreciate how much hard work goes into creating a novel.

Although Ultimates 3 (a graphic novel) was just terrible so miserable....I cant erase the horribleness from my mind.

Scott

I'd Like you to meet my main character!

This is my main character Marcus. He is currently a junior scout in the southwestern Ontario area. He has a complicated injury past as well as interesting love life that hasn't been really fleshed out in my mind yet. Tomorrow while I am working I am going to try and develop more of an idea of just who is Marcus. He parents, teenage life, current age, friends and music? Not sure if I will be able to do his music, we'll see and sometime this week I will be posting what cities Marcus will visit because something I really enjoyed about Katie's book was visiting all these amazing cities and places and seeing the wonder in her character's eyes. This excites me because through my book I will get to visit all these wonderful arenas that I want to visit. Bonus ;)

On the satisfaction of being right!

I would like to direct everyone's attention to Indigo's Calendar and note that I correctly predicted that Chicago would knock out Vancouver tonight and beat them they did ;).

Feels Good.

And I am feeling good about my book. I am visiting the Hockey Hall of Fame this weekend when Sam is in Toronto for her training and I think it will be a lot of fun. I haven't been there in quite some time.

I am also glad that everyone has enjoy laughing at one of my family's prized possession. Shame on you. ;)

Research for my book

Ok this kind of feels like cheating but it seems like everyone has an idea of what they want to write about so I'm ok with it. As some people know I plan on writing a mystery hockey book which I think will be quite fun. The research aspect of my book involves finding out a bit more about the profession of hockey scouting. As such I will be reading a book on scouting hockey.

In addition for fun I will be reading A book by Don Cherry for both anecdotes and maybe some inspiration.