Okay, so it's another January of your life. Now would be a great time
to dust off that laptop and work on that book you started.

Yeah, I'm writing. I've been forcing rewrites of a number of projects,
including a couple of screenplays, and have updated my blog, as well as
blocked out some revisions to my manuscripts. This is my year, damnit!
Let's get this thing moving! You want to be working for someone else
forever.

I have to add this because I think it's funny. I was having a
conversation with Ani about Andy Santiago, a fictional character who
appears graciously throughout Dryline Rhapsody. Anyway, we were
discussing Andy's astrological sign, and to Ani I summarized him as
such:

"No, I think Andy is bombastic and encroaching. He's a wine drinking
philosopher-fool who takes to the strange and offbeat. He's got a
handle own his personal tragedies but so long as there is good drink, a
drug or two, and compelling conversations-not to mention a rooftop
from which he can orate-then he is truly the king of the eternal
moment. Indeed, his sadness is almost always momentary and often
forgotten in the wistful midnight kiss from some imaginary angel. No,
Andy's an opportunist, a soft-deviant whose snobbery is developed,
and whose good-hearted nature is neither completely understood nor
appreciated by all. Yes, he's forever poised and posed as one who
doesn't care, and since he hasn't the tolerance for anyone's
bullshit but his own, I believe therefore Andrew Tiberius Santiago is
Sagittarian."

To which Ani replied, "It's you!" (or something to that effect). Guess
you had to be there...

So, here's your assignment: sketch a character and write two hundred
words about her/him. I don't care what it is, just write it. And post
it here.

Peace.

T.A.M.