{"id":158,"date":"2015-02-09T13:54:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=158"},"modified":"2015-02-09T13:54:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:54:43","slug":"the-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"The Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have two things I&#8217;m working on. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure if I like either one, because they both take place in the past.<\/p>\n<p>My coworker&#8217;s husband passed away. \u00a0My coworker&#8217;s in her early 40&#8217;s. \u00a0He died of a sudden illness. \u00a0It was a shock.<\/p>\n<p>I was fine talking about it, but I realized how eerie it was compared to my experience. \u00a0As I told this to my counselor she said, &#8220;You should write a memoir.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I had it in mind these past few years, even with a title: Torn Asunder. \u00a0It&#8217;s been seven years now, and to think about revisiting that moment in time as if it was yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to do it. \u00a0It&#8217;s in Scrivener, and I may end up doing it as a Kindle book because it&#8217;s not going to be long enough for a real book. \u00a0Or I&#8217;ll do it as &#8220;Book one in a trilogy&#8221;, with the other two being about dealing with an autistic child and\u00a0borderline personality disorder\/video game addiction. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t published it anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing I decided to do was write out the Leopard Knight &#8211; Mal and Knight&#8217;s story. \u00a0That is published <a href=\"http:\/\/leopardknight.tumblr.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still playing games more than writing. \u00a0Doing these two things is like work to me, because I&#8217;m an &#8220;organic&#8221; writer. \u00a0I want to see how the story goes and later ends up. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know the end usually when I start a story. \u00a0However, in these cases, I know the end, and details in the middle, and how it all began. \u00a0It&#8217;s like I&#8217;m regurgitating a story I already have memorized.<\/p>\n<p>However, nobody else knows the story like I do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.<\/p>\n<p>I finally broke down and decided to use my Netflix account for myself. \u00a0Being a deep-seated lover of comic books and the super hero genre, I figured I&#8217;d watch a couple of super hero stories. \u00a0I started with this.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying so hard not to binge watch this. \u00a0I&#8217;m only on Volume 1, episode 4. \u00a0Even though it&#8217;s more like Russel Stover&#8217;s than Godiva, it&#8217;s still like chocolate and I know I&#8217;ll get sick and overwhelmed if I see the entire thing at once. \u00a0I have found that I like Netflix over DVD&#8217;s. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll go out and buy this on DVD &#8211; it&#8217;s good, but not like RED, which was awesome and I had to have the DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have two things I&#8217;m working on. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure if I like either one, because they both take place in the past. 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