Just wanted to give an update on the third book, which I must say has been awfully fun to come up.  Sometimes a little too fun, as I find myself getting off track at times on where I want the fellas to go.  I've found an interesting phenomenon developing...I get my team in a pickle and then when they get out of it (which of course they have to do), I find them going in a different direction than I intended.  It has caused me a few restless nights.  Their desire to push me in this new direction has caused me to rethink parts of the story, but in a better way.  I usually pick a beginning, where I would like them to be in the middle, and a very rough way I would like it to end up.  But now, I'm not sure of where these characters are going to push me to an end.  It makes for interesting writing (at least for me), as a reader I hope it proves to be as fun as I have had in writing it so far.

Note to authors, do not watch Stranger than Fiction, and then sit down to write.  It will mess you up in the head.  I really like the movie and managed to catch it on one of the movie channels (which I don't get to do often, you know, kid shows dominate this house).  It stars Will Farrell and Emma Thompson.  She is a gifted and famous author, he is a by-the-book IRS agent.  Her latest masterpiece (she hasn't written in 10 years) dictates his life.  Every word she puts down effects him in some way.  It was funny, I tried to sit down to write a few pages and nothing came out.  A liken it to watching one of those action packed movies before bed, and then having crazy dreams the entire night about catching bad guys and jumping off buildings.  By the way, Dustin Hoffman is great as a literary professor in this one.  Final conclusion-that's it, no more thinking movies for me for a while.  I'll stick with the goofy comedies.