Researching Feminism and Writing the Novel

I had to print out some of the most bizarre nonsense from the feminists camp this weekend.  I have to look at this stuff for my little project on manhood, and it boggles the mind that people write things like intercourse is rape, or that all men are rapists or something.  Some of this stuff is dated material, and some of it is fairly recent and it just seems like feminist theories get wilder and wilder as time goes on.  I thought feminism was supposed to be about equality, not trying to accuse a whole gender of being rapists.  Its sad because these writers have no clue about gender issues, and no clue what most of the male population actually think about women.  Of course to distract myself from some this absurdity, I have to hop into other projects.  I'm still working on my novella, and I think its going ok. I'm about 17 or 18 pages in now, but since books are printed in smaller page sizes, I might be into page 25 or something when it makes it to actual print.  So far its not to bad, I get annoyed at how long writing takes sometimes, but if you really care about something you'll stick it out, and I hope that's what I'm doing.  So far the whole "process" isn't too bad, and even my wife thinks something good will come of it all.

Likud Or Not Netanyahu Has Won

This is my first political post.  I usually don't get too crazy about politics just because people resort to lying, propaganda, and a bunch of distasteful stuff just because people are nuts.  Today, however, Benjamin Netanyahu and his political party, Likud, have seemingly won big in the elections in Israel, and by extention Netanyahu has another term as Prime Minister of Israel.  I like this guy.  In a region of terrorism, and uncertainly, Netanyahu has an iron will about Israel's security.  As somebody who has some very small Jewish heritage, and a Christian, its nice to not worry about Israel.  Its encouraging to see something go right for a change.  I expect Israel's enemies won't like his victory, but too bad.  The attitude from some liberals in America, and the enemies of Israel, is that "how dare Israel, stand up for itself and fight off people who want to genocide them right off the face of the planet?  Those pesky Jews!  How dare they think they've got a right to land they had a stake on for thousands of years."  Its absurd for Jews or Gentiles to not want to defend themselves from extinction.  Sadly many liberals in America are trying to community organize the world into some kind of hippie parade, but you can't organize evil people like that.  Somewhere, somebody is going to lie to the organizers, or use it for their own ends, and in this case, we need to just let Israel have the ability to protect itself, and not allow ourselves to aid, or comfort Israel's enemies or undermine Israel's efforts to defend itself.  Granted, there's a story in the media about liberals trying to influence the elections in Israel, yet Netanyahu won anyway.  Its a great day for Israel, and as a result a great for Jews, and a great victory for the cause of freedom around the world, as Netanyahu is for a strong Israel, and a strong Israel fights terrorism, and fights evil.

Monday is a Boring Day

I'm reading stuff on feminism, and gender issues, and other crap like that, and it is boring.  Part of it certainly is the fact, I have to read to begin with, it takes time to read books, and articles, and that gets  

old quickly.  Another part of it is all these types of things are written by "intellectuals" who have no life experience, or have any concept people think of complicated and complex issues, they just don't use the fanciful language these supposed scholars use.  I only got about 20 pages of reading done today, but I also found a few articles I'm going to reference, and I got a better look at some other things I have to look at.  It is encouraging to make progress though.  I've been listening to music all day, and getting a bunch of things done today.  And since I had the day off from my day job, its now only 4 days till the weekend.  I'm always trying to find some solace that the more I think of some of my projects, I see the endings coming together for them.  I'm getting more and more optimistic I'll be able to finish 2 books this year, and not just the one.  

What Am I Supposed to Title This Post...

I'm pretty glad its Friday, I need the weekend to rest. The 70 mile commute to work, and then the 70 miles back home take their toll, especially after the 8-10 hour workday.   Between housework, and loud family members, its easy to get distracted and not find time to write, or to finish reading the 100 books or so for research purposes.  Its sort of a non-stop life, and time is going by so much faster than it used to.  I'm entering my mid-30s soon, and its tough for focus my mind for writing, when I'm tired from the manual labor I do during the day.  I eat candy and listen to music and audiobooks during commutes to stay awake and alert, because otherwise I'm cussing out drivers who drive to slow when there's no accidents or anything wrong on the freeways, and I try to fight off fatigue.  I am trying to take advantage of feeling like myself once again.  I've been getting very agitated and annoyed, and have had too many things blow up at work and at home for me to settle my mind and focus on writing.

Recently, however, I been trying to push myself more mentally, and I've been learning not to panic when I stall at some point in a story.  I take my time, think about it for a while, and then come back to it.  I've got 6 projects, but some of those are on hold till I can figure out how to get all my ideas in a good structure.  You think of one thing, and then another, but they're so far apart in terms of chronology, you have to develop the first idea before you can make it to the second, and that takes time.  Still its nice to have ideas and projects to do.  Makes you feel like you're actually do something of value.  And that's a good feeling.

Weekend Part Deux

I have to buy a bike for the youngest.  She's turning 7 in April, so like a good father I have to buy an expensive to make sure my kid still love me.  I also have undertaken the reading of The Feminine Mystique.  Clearly, I must love writing so punish myself by reading this.  I have 2 separate projects that require me reading this, one is a political project I started nearly a year ago, and another is for a manifesto of sorts.  Don't worry its a good manifesto.  I have 6 different book projecs going, but I think this manifesto thingy is something I can crank out in a month or less.  Its just going to be short, and it something I sort of have bottled up inside me, so I don't have to formulate ideas too much, or research for it.  So that's nice.  I'm trying to figure out how to squeeze in writing so I don't have to talk to my wife's family, who's over for dinner and schoomzing.  I'm blogging and tweeting to kill time.  Ha.

My Weekend

This past weekend I accomplished one of the dreams I've had since I was a kid.  I got a mini fridge for my bedroom.  So cool.  Its full of booze and sweet tea now.  Me and the Mrs. can now grab a cold beverage from the bedroom instead of walking the 20 feet to the kitchen.  I also managed to get some writing in, and organize a little more the 5 or 6 projects I have going.  Time seems to be going by faster, and I've been finding I have more things calling for my attention, which is strange because I don't get excited or motivated for too much.  I think I've got an ending for my first book, and I'm closer to getting all the materials I need for some non-fiction projects too.  I got a tweet read on Foxnews too!  My wife and I saw it on TV but I didn't get a picture of it in time, and I've no idea how to find now.  But at least we saw it.  I'm really tired because of all these things I'm doing now, and my day job.  Between 40-50 hour work week, and the 20 plus hours I'm on the road a week now, I'm much more tired than they I used to be.  Still, its nice to make some kind of progress on things.