Jkurtzwriter's Blog

 Thank God it's Friday! Well, my Friday. What a great week though! My folks treated the wife and I to Olive Garden for Dawn's birthday! Happy 35th babe! (Shhhh....e's 48). Shhhh. It is always a fun time with the parents! Dawn got embarrassed when the whole place sang Happy Birthday to her. And, just before that, a grandma was screaming for a doctor because her grandbaby was choking! Seriously! All I could think of was the Dumb and Dumber scene at the diner!!! LOL!  So that was exciting. AND... Our Colorado Avalanche brought us one step closer to Lord Stanley's Cup by defeating the St. Louis Blues in 5 games! The Avs swept Nashville in the first round, and then lost their first game of the second round at Ball Arena (home) to the Blues! I started to worry, but my son Collin said not to worry. And he was right, it was only our first loss in this year's tournament. Then, somehow, the series wound up 3-2 Av's. St. Louis could only think of that Dumb and Dumber scene...

Such a funny word- blog . Any suggestions on its origination? It does kind of fit what we're doing here, Blogging .... Well, I was back to work today, at the job that actually pays me. I hope to make money with my writing someday, but that's not why I write. I've loved to write since I was a kid. I'd get a kick out of seeing the 50 page animal encyclopedia I did when I was like 7! Hope you're having a great day! I'm going to work on my book now.  

 I am new to blogging and not even sure if I should be wasting time writing here when I should be writing my novel. I have had the idea for this story in my head since the first days of the covid lockdowns and finally started to write it a couple weeks ago! I should have at least three or four chapters written by now but only have three pages! This is troubling me because I've started a few books in the past and never finished them. I'm worried if I don't get a big chunk down on paper that history will repeat itself. My issue today is not that I've got writer's block, but am too busy planning and not writing (though I have written a lot in the planning). This blog for example! I'm hoping that writing here will either generate sentence or scene ideas. Or that I find others in the same boat I'm in. Also, even though I don't have a finished product, I'm hoping to create some kind of following, which would further motivate me to finish this one!