Miscellany Inaction

I just finished my summer class a few days ago.  It will be a few more days before I receive my grade for the class.  I just hope it is good enough to go on.  It was not the best idea to take a monthlong class.  Cramming four months of work in just four weeks was difficult for me.  If my grade is good enough, I will be taking two more classes this fall.  One of the classes will be in advanced poetry writing.  I have already taken the class for fiction.  Strangely enough, I feel that my best poems are better than my fiction, but I still prefer the latter over the former.  Which brings me to my next subject. While I haven't mentioned it for a few months, I do have more than one blog. Two in fact, but I'm going to focus on just one of them today.  The T. H Weingarten Miscellany.  I started it as a way to collect enough material for graduate school submissions.  So far, it hasn't worked to well.  There is a mix of material there.  The majority of the blog is dedicated to the first draft of a novel/novella called Dada. The first part of the first chapter can be found here.  I have recently updated both parts of the first chapter to reflect how the passages looked when I submitted them for my application.  I will be doing the same for Chapter 2 in the next few days.  I bring this up because Dada was always supposed to be the first part of a trilogy.  Well, I have decided to start the second book.  Starting next Tuesday, or so, I will start posting chapter parts for the follow-up, Pop.  For those who hadn't read it yet, Dada is about Chris, a twenty-something man in a job he hates.  Out of the blue, he becomes the guardian for he younger half-brother, who is rapidly going through puberty.  On a road trip back to his father's house, the two have a few adventures.  The story culminates at their father's mansion (his family was really rich back in the day) where Chris finds out about a number of family secrets in quick succession, including what happened to his father.  Pop takes up Chris' story four years later.  Both Chris and his brother have undergone a few changes in that time.  I'm thinking that the first scene will show just how many changes have occurred, and they will blow your mind.  I don't want to give to much away yet, but I will say that the first few chapters will take place in New York, but the action will move back to Lexington about halfway through.  I am planning on having about as many twists as Dada did, if not more, and that's saying something.  Maybe nothing as major as Chris' father's art movie, but close.  I still haven't included the full text of that chapter yet, but it is available for messaging if anyone is curious.  I warn you though, it is risqué.  Even the synopsis I did post got a tad too close for comfort for public viewing.  Here's to a few more months of writing my second book.