New Years

New Years Eve is today, New Years Day is tomorrow. We're going to spend the day at some friends' house in Newton.
My New Years resulution will be to finish revising and editing my novel.
Other than that, I have nothing else to blog about.
Hey, if you're interested in reading my blog and receiving emails to tell you when I publish a new post, scroll down the sidebar and click on- well, I'm not sure, but I'm sure you'll figure it out!
Off to the New Years Party!
Jake

Circles

Circles. I really don't like circles. For more than one reason.
One; They are endless. You start on a circle, and you come back to the beginning eventually.
Two; People make books using circles.
The Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker. A circle. There's a fourth book, and it ends the way the first book in the series began.
The Song of Albion series by Stephen Lawhead. Although it uses the Endless Knot instead of a circle, the books do go in a circle like the Circle Trilogy; they end with the same words they began with.
I admit that these two authors do a great job with their books. In fact, the circle thing helps make their books better. But still... the books go endlessly on. When you finish the last book, the continuation is the first book. They don't really end.
Someday, I might even use that same concept in a novel. But I still don't like circles.

The reason I blog about circles? There is no reason. I finished the Song of Albion series (which I had gotten for Christmas) yesterday, and so I thought I'd tell you why I don't like circles. So, one day later, I decided to blog about 'em. I started typing...

'Circles. I really don't like circles...

Yea or Nay?

Today I present my readers questions that requires one of the answers listed on the title.

1. Do you want me to make a seperate blog for writing about my writing(the novel)?

2. Do you want me to post the summary of my novel here?

3. Do the poll. (That one wasn't a question, but it needed to be said.)

My blogging shortage will officially start right after I post this post, due to the holidays (I said holidays, meaning the New Year too).

Have a merry Christmas, everybody!

Jake

My Kindle (And a list!)

For those of you who do not know, I own a Kindle. I could go on for hours (er, pages) telling you about the pros of an Amazon Kindle. Since my birthday in October, I have bought 22 books on Kindle, not including a collection of Jules Verne books(37 of them!). Not bad for a teen who earns $15 dollars a month. This is basically useless information to you, but I don't have anything else to talk about. Except the following;

• I have not blogged because the internet safety program blocks me. The only time I can blog is when I get on through a link from an email, sent to me when someone comments. Get what I'm saying?
• Christmas is soon. (three of them! Close family, Buller family, and Decker family)
• Spread the word about my blog! My sister (whose URL I will not tell because it would be free advertising, although it's on my sidebar) gets twice as many views as I do. Not that it's a reason to spread the word, but...
• MOST IMPORTANT. Excerpts from my novel coming soon! Tell me if I should take my excerpt from the beginning, middle, or the end. I also might summarize my novel and give you the summary to read. It'll be something along the lines of what you would read on the back cover of a book.
• Nothing else. Ha. Ha ha. Very funny.

Don't forget to comment so I can actually blog. Either that or Mom can change my settings. Until then,

See you later.

Jake

Cold

I'm cold. Nothing more. Zip. Zilch. That's all I'm thinking about right now. Well, unless you count a book I need to go pick up at the library. But that's off the subject. Right now... I'm cold. And hoping the weather will drop just two degrees so it'll snow. Other then that....
Zip.

Jake

Well Grounded Excuse

Today's excuse is.... My Internet Safety program blocked Blogger. I tried several times to blog, but it wouldn't let me. But, as you can see, I managed to get past it. I clicked on a link to moderate comments thru my email, and so I made my way to the posting section. So, here I am, with nothing to blog about except my excuses. Wait, there is a precious little nugget of information;
Pages added thru editing my novel: originally on first draft; 70 pages. Pages now; 77. (Clap clap!)

Signing out,

Jake

Thanksgiving

We got back several days ago from the Wichita area, where we had Thanksgiving. We had the Buller Thanksgiving first, and then the Decker Thanksgiving the next day. The reason I didn't blog as soon as we got back, you ask? Two reasons (or excuses, whichever you choose.). One, I was doing schoolwork. Two, I was writing my novel, which is now finished. Actually, I only finished the rough draft of it. I am now editing the novel. And editing. Oh, and did I mention I'm editing? The total number of pages (on Microsoft Word) is 70. I have added three pages of editing since then, and hope to add some more. It's quite an acheivement though, since I started on that journey two years ago, in Iowa. Since then, I have moved to three different cities and three different houses. A lot has happened since I first wrote the first word of the first chapter of my first novel. It's sort of a memorial for what happened in the last two years.

Signing out, (Hey, I end it when I have nothing else to talk, er, write about)

Jake