Blogging A Novel

I've been turning a fantasy world in my head for many months, now. Recently, I've been making notes on the world, and otherwise trying to assemble it into a coherent form. Then, the inevitable happened.

I added a story.

I created a general outline for a story, added a few rough characters, and now I've got the itch (again). This time I might make it happen.

I'm starting now with exploring the world's people and parts of its history through legends and myths. I'll merge this, soon, with a character study, of which some may enter the main story, others may move into historical characters, and others may be thrown out. I'll also work on the story sketches.

My point of this post reflects a desire to start putting up some of the fleshed out stories that come out of these initial sketches. I'll see where it goes.

Looking Back At My Old Works

I've recently gone back to look over a screenplay I wrote back in about 2001. It's a slow moving thriller (okay - a yawner) about a set of conspiracy groups all fighting it out over a hidden religious secret which turns out to be the direct descendants of Jesus.

After realizing that I could have cashed this in for millions, I started to rewrite it based around the Key of Solomon. Then I found that Dan Brown wants to turn this into a novel, too. Further investigations show that what I'm really looking to focus on is that .'. (3 dot triangle) symbol used in occult order names, which symbolizes both a mystical secret and that the order knows the Lost Word of Masonry.

I'll see where this next revision takes me.

Iraq War Was For Oil?

I've been wondering something lately. I've been hearing more and more talk of late that the U.S. went into Iraq for oil. However, I wonder how much oil the U.S. has sent to Iraq for the war. I mean, Iraq doesn't have oil refineries in any kind of capacity to supply itself. That means the U.S. planners had to burn oil to send out the troops and equipment, they had to send oil to power all the vehicles and generators that keep the troops working in their long shifts on patrol, and they had to burn oil to send the oil to the troops and equipment.

So, just how much oil was the U.S. supposed to "win", and how much have the U.S. planners had to burn to get that oil? I don't have the resources to find out personally, but I think it's still an interesting question.