Writing and Houses

First off I found this blog just now. It's about becoming a better writer. I have to say a lot of what he says is interesting but I just don't agree with him. I don't know what it is, but I just have a different view of writing.
For instance, he says to write on a schedule. I can't do that. I have tried and I really can't. I end up getting stuck in a rut and writing the same thing over and over. For me it's best to just write as it comes. Which is the main reason as to why I have a hard time writing chronologically. I have no idea why. I guess I just have so many ideas running through my head at once that I need to get them out before I lose them.
I tried once to write chronologically. I got to this point where I lost track of the story and nothing was the way I intended it to be and it really never got anywhere because I was just writing, hoping something would appear in the various crap I was spewing out. For me it's easier to come up with a basic outline that I can stick with first and then write as I get ideas for each part. In an odd way that is what has kept me going with the "book" that I'm working on. Slowly it has evolved and I now have a much clearer idea of what is going to happen than I did when I started. Had I just sat down and tried to write a first draft it would have never developed into what it is. Though, there really isn't much actual story (Nich has been getting on to me about that part =P), but I know exactly what will happen when and there is a cohesive timeline. Though, who knows if this is really a problem for anyone else, maybe I'm just that OCD.
Also, his tips seem to be more geared towards fantasy/sci-fi/mystery writing. I tend to write more life stories. I just don't really have the imagination for fantasy. I read fantasy books and am baffled by how the writer comes up with these worlds. Tolkien blows my mind! How he not only invented worlds but also languages I will never know.

(Ugh, that entire thing sounds like a journal entry for English. HA! Ms. Davis has warped my mind.)

Anyways, on to Houses. The wonderful Amy spurred my thoughts back to houses. I told Nich once that my dream house is a Victorian with a wrap around porch, lots of land, amazing light and a lake (doesn't have to be huge just some sort of natural body of water which is bigger than a puddle). Anyways, I think that has grown. Now it is a two story Victorian, a basement, a porch that wraps around at least three sides of the house, huge windows which let in the amazing light, dark, hard wood floors, at least one room with wood paneling, dark wood cabinets in the kitchen (I hate when people paint their cabinets white, especially when it is thick almost plastic feeling paint. Ugh, I saw a picture of a house where they painted the stairs with thick white, disgusting dusty blue and an equally disgusting dusty pink. It was a gorgeous staircase too. I almost cried when I saw that.), no strange colored tile (I have lived in a house with pink tile for nearly ten years now. I never want to see colored floor tiles again.), not that much land just enough to where I can't see my neighbors, trees (I would be depressed if I had no trees),...I think that' s it. Hmmmmm. Anyways, I found this site through Amy's blog. Nearly everyone had at least one thing on the list. Maybe I should move to Baton Rouge. I've always loved Louisiana. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I want to watch Criminal Minds.
I get to see Role Models tomorrow.
I need to finish The Golden Compass by Monday.
Blah.

Hope your Thanksgiving weekday is good.
I'll probably see you before then but just in case.
(Stephanie is currently yelling Spanish vocabulary at me.
Spanish is a painful language to listen to, especially when it is being yelled at you by a Texas child who has no want to pronounce it properly.)
-Disco-