A good start on Chapter 2

 I have started Chapter 2 and have about four pages done.  It will need editing, of course, but at least I have  a start. I have also written up one of Ram's first blogs.   I will post it when I have worked on it a bit to clean up.

Nothing posted on the tabs.

Not much work during Christmas

I'm sorry for you and I'm sorry for me but I didn't have a chance to do much writing over Christmas.  My wife and I went from Nevada to Colorado to see her daughter and son-in-law and five grandkids. We had a fine time but there was no time for writing even though I took with me a laptop I bought  from one of Brenda's friends during Thanksgiving when we visited them in southern California.

Even though I didn't do any writing I did managed to jot down a few more notes , such as some of the names of the towns I'm going to incorporate in the book. I've just a little bit left to finish  in chapter 1 and then I will be, beginning chapter 2, I have most of the chapters laid out Excel.  Right now I have laid out 24 chapters, but that, of course, is subject to change at any time ( and the order as well).

 Well, I guess I better get writing  orthe book will never get finished.

No additions to any of the tabs right now.

I Actually Started the Ram Book

Well,  , I've actually started writing my Ram book. What I find the most difficult to do when writing a book is to start.. I don't imagine that I'm alone in that regard  but I'm never quite sure  exactly how to start. . That being said,  I did get the first three pages  done.  the next thing I did of course is edit the pages and make some  minor modifications. I guess the pages aren't too bad. Now, on to finish the first chapter.

Starting with a Spreadsheet

I started making notes in Excel for my Ram book (That's what I will keep calling it). I mentioned before that  I use Excel to plan what going in the chapters  because it makes the chapters easy to rearrange if  I decide to change the order. Also, I can use the columns to record when the chapters are finished and each time a particular chapter is edited. I didn't work on anything except the Ram book yesterday or today.

Not much to report

Not much to report. I did play poker yesterday and placed fourth. I have organized my notes a bit for the Ram book, but haven't done much else. I will be working at it and the waterfall book today. Maybe work out in the garage some too. We shall see.

I'll report again later if I find the time.

Today I updated my pages:
On Gambling (Played poker yesterday)

Christmas book is now finished (as of Thursday)

Yes, I have finished my book "The Christmas Village Book" and it is posted on Amazon. Now I'm at a loss as to which book I should write next. I have so many ideas. Here are my next seven (not in any particular order except the first three in the list)

1. My book about Ram (the point of this blog)
2. A non-fiction book on how to build an eight-foot waterfall by yourself (I did that - check out my tab On Waterfalls (I know there is nothing on the tab, but you can follow the link to my web page to see the picture of the eight-foot waterfall I built).
3. My book about "how to loose at least three girlfriends by being too much of a gentleman: A cathartic tale" (somewhat autobiographical)
4. A sequel to my Last Killer Standing book (already have slightly plotted at least 10 sequlals)
5. A sequel to my Order of the White Feather: The sword of Dalamar book (already know where this one is going but it is not fully plotted out)
6. A book similar to the National Treasure movies (I already have the idea for the plot, but I won't give it away here)
7. A book about a psychic little girl (don't yet have much of a plot, but I do have a title thanks to Heather, my daughter and MUSE)

Honestly, I will probably work on the first three books in the list at the same time, so when I get stuck on one, I can write on one of the others for a break. Obviously, they are three totally different kinds of books.

I will try to post at least a short blog each day to let you know my progress and which book I was working on that day.

I will play poker this afternoon, of course and I will post the results tomorrow.

(Please post some kind of a comment to let me know someone out there is actually reading this or I will just stop doing it and work on the books instead).

Christmas book just about finished

Hello from Edward J. Coburn

Well, I'm just about finished with my Christmas book. I hope to be done today. It is not very long. It  should be less than 50 Word pages when done. I'm not sure how many Kindle pages it will be.

Today I have updated the following tabs:

1. On Gambling
2. On strokes and other problems

Now I lay me down to sleep

Hello from Edward J. Coburn


Now I lay me down to sleep
Into my room the monsters creep
If they should eat me before I wake
Please dear Lord, give them a bellyache.
Just something I came up with and thought was kind of cute. Gonna post it on YouTube.

It is Posted at Now I Lay Me down to Sleep

About my Christmas book and other things

Hello from Edward J. Coburn
Just to let you know, the Christmas book is about what to do with those houses, people, and maybe animals for Christmas villages you may have recieved or gotten yourself. If you have them and want to do something a bit more fancy (like a diorama) with them this year, You may want to check out my book (lot's of pictures). It will be a kindle book.

For those of you without a Kindle, my other two books are now being offered in many other formats (including PDF) from a site called http://www.Smashwords.com. My books can be found at:

Last Killer Standing 
and
Order of the  White Feather: The Sword of Dalamar

Today I updated my pages:
On Gambling (Played poker yesterday)
On Interesting Quotes

That's all for now. Still lots to do before I can start on my new book about Ram's Ramblings and now (believe it or not) I have started another book (probably gonna be a bit embarasing admiting some of this stuff) called "How to loose at least three girlfriends by being too much of a gentleman: A Cathartic tale".