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Episode 1: Getting started.

This is my writing blog.

By that, I mean that I've set my goal on being a full-time writer (primarily science fiction and fantasy, but I have other projects in mind), and I plan to document the trials and tribulations here. So think of the episodes as a soap opera, with humor.

What does the title of the blog mean?

Well, first, it means that I searched the internet and didn't find another blog with that title. Also, No Mongoose in the Mimosa is a short story (sadly as yet unpublished) I wrote, wherein the MC (the Main Character) screws up his romance in Hawaii and then must save his fiance' from a tsunami.

Mimosa's are both a tree and a mixed drink. Mongooses were imported to Hawaii to solve another imported problem: rats. It didn't work. Apparently rats are nocturnal beasts and mongooses prefer the daylight. Interestingly, at least to me, a story in a scientific journal from 1917 suggests that a mongoose uses mimosa leaves to treat itself for snake bites.

Hmm. The blog title may be better than I thought. You can draw your own analogies.

Pretty much that's what I plan to blog about, things I write that don't work out and things I write that seem to succeed; things I plan to try, and hopefully what I learn along the way. I'll also discuss Projects I have in development, and the problems in plotting them. Along the way, I may comment on what other writers have done and how I think they succeeded.

At the risk of self-referential, inadvertent recursion, this blog is a writing experiment in writing, something that I plan to write in and even write about writing in it. I hope that these entries may be cathartic and useful to me , and perhaps interesting to someone else.

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