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Will D. Underwood
Santa Clarita, California
February 3, 2019

Some people say that one man's junk is another man's treasure. This can be easily changed to suit any need. One man's poison is another man's coffee, one person's dice is another person's cyanide pill substitute, even one's Super Bowl Sunday is another university student's day of freedom.

I've come to learn that sometimes the best moments are when you are alone, depending on the situation. For instance, I was (for most of the time) in my dorm room when the rest of the dormitory was watching the super bowl just downstairs. I could have socialized with them, and granted I did a few hours later and watched the game for a while, but when you're alone, or rather when I'M alone, I find ideas tend to flow to me a bit more often.

Just earlier today I was thinking about one of the big stories I had in the works, I suppose you could call it my Magnum Opus just waiting to be born: The Wind Thief. This has been a story that's been in my mind well over 2 years, plotting and sub-plotting, so many characters and locations and events just waiting to be typed on paper. Alas, being the person that I am I get writers block on one of the beginning events. I am still working around that, as most of my writing on that section was written on my Macbook, to which my charger for it is lost, so that is put once again on hold.

However, I had another idea for a book, one less intimidating and a good deal shorter that I want to get out soon, hopefully I can get a draft done by the end of the semester, assuming I find time between classes, work study, personal recreation and my part time job down in Valencia.

I don't want to write the idea down here in the event that someone who happens to be reading this perfectly boring and ordinary blog decides to steal the idea before I can write it, but it's a series of short(ish) mysteries that, in the end, have an overarching plot. I wonder what it is that I shall call this...

"The Adventures of a Puzzle Solver?" "Mysteries of the Ordinary?" "Simply Mysterious?" "The Silver Puzzles?"

The Silver Puzzles...I quite like the sound of that, don't you?