Still Alive

I'm intimidated still.

I know that I'm the only person who really knows this blog exists and I shouldn't intimidate myself by posting to it, but I've been avoiding it for that very reason. Mostly I use this account to reply to others blogs. Others blogs who are vastly more popular and wide-read than mine (I have no idea why my one post blog would be wide-read but let's go with it.)

So, what's pushing me over that frightening edge to actually write in the scary blogspot?

I'm procrastinating.

I believe I mentioned before that I'm working on a novel. Technically, I'm working on two novels. One of them is my project (which I am procrastinating on) and the other is a co-authorship with my best friend. That one is getting a lot closer to being done, we're getting to all of that exciting climax stuff! We've also been writing it for a year now. Mine, on the other hand is no where near that exciting climax stuff. In fact, I'm not even positive what it will be (I do have an idea though!)

Fireproof, the joint project, is a Steampunk Fantasy that is planned to span three novels, following the two leaders of a rebellion as they attempt to save their world from Ultimate Steampowered Destruction. The first of the three (which is what we're on now) finds the two MCs attempting to time-travel and ending up in a different reality altogether, they are having to fight their way through this new (peaceful) world to find each other (and themselves) and get back before it's too late.

In the Absense of Embers, my single project, I am writing for 70 Days of Sweat and all in all, it's going well. I'm just over 8,000 words with 10,00 being my goal by Sunday. I'm really enjoying the story, even though I don't have much of a plan. Book summary:

When Alexendra is flung from her father's airship she doesn't expect to live much less discover just how colorful her life could become. But her journey to Shores Academy with a fellow student and outcast (who just happened to save her life) will prove to be more teaching than an entire semester could ever manage as Alexendra learns the faults in life-long prejudices, but also begins to discover the nefarious plot against her father which threatens her own life as well.

I don't know that I feel either of them are particularly clever or original plots, but I think that the stories are still very good and I certianly love them myself.

Okay. That's enough procrastinating for me. Thanks for listening.

The Dreaded First Post

Sitting here staring at this text box feels a lot like staring at the blank document that is supposed to house your ever-important first draft. In a word- terrifying.

I feel like having a blog means that I have to have something earth-shattering to say, or at least that I am claiming that I have something earth shattering to say, which just isn't the case. I have thoughts, sure, I have opinions by the truckload, but that isn't to say that I think mine are particularly any more shiny than someone else's. Actually, in most cases I feel that they leave a lot to be wanted. I'm not the most educated, or the most thoughtful, and certainly not the most informed.

But then I have to ask myself- do I expect others to hold to these standards? Does everyone on the web have to be a genius-ground breaking-trail blazing-fool to 'earn' a right to have a blog?

No, Lynne, no they do not.

And so- in an effort to prevent myself from supporting this idea that a blog has to be the best blog ever to have a right to exist, I will be writing here. Just me. Just Theo Lynne, being Theo Lynne.

(but who, you ask, is Theo Lynne?)

Well, I'm glad you asked. I'm a lot of things, I suppose. I'm a student, a title that I'm almost sad to still be able to use (not that I have a desire to ever stop learning) and a graphic designer. I'm an aspiring author (and right now I feel like adding a cynical 'who isn't'- but it's only frustration) and I'm an avid reader. I'm a fan of young adult, fantasy, sci-fi, and my latest love the sub-genre Steampunk.

Theo Lynne is a wife, puppy-owner, and dreamer. She gets frustrated and she's passionate about a lot of things. Who knows where life will take her.