Today's Earworm: Narcissistic Cannibal (cover) by Earlyrise
Today's Date: April 18, 2017
So I'm pretty sure that you've noticed that I haven't posted a new blog for two weeks in a row right?
Eh, I'm sorry that I didn't but I kind of needed to just stop and get away from things. I needed to relax and focus on my writing and not my blog as I've been doing for most Sunday's since I started a long term Monday Blog Series.
I had to stop and focus on...me.
I've spoken about my mental issues, including ADD and OCD, but I don't think that I've talked about the issues that I have with Depression, Anxiety and panic attacks. At least not in detail.
No, I'm not going to talk about those in detail this post so don't worry.
I am going to talk about what has been going on in my writing life and what I'm shifting around, fixing up and thinking about in regards to it.
After my lovely friend left last Sunday, I kind of crashed. And hard. I didn't write all that much during the first week of Camp and the second week kind of was meh, but this week so far has been good. I haven't actually worked on either Black Veiled Saviour or Bad Dog. At least not in getting words so far.
I've been working on other things that need to be focused on. But I have, surprisingly, gotten over 16 thousand words. I have dropped my word counts down to 30K because of the rocky start to my writing, but shit happens.
I'm also doing a lot of rewriting and going over information with various stories. It's seemed to be working well enough for me, so I'm happy with that.
I just need to finish off a few things. Get them off of my long, long list. Which is driving me up a wall. A big, craggly wall.
But I'm doing it.
So thank you for understanding. Tune in next week for the update on the stories and after that I'll be talking about what I'm thinking of doing for the next few posts.
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Monday, March 13, 2017
Preparing for Camp 2017 - Part 2
Today's Earworm: RESIDENT EVIL 7 Biohazard Full HD 1080p/60fps Longplay Walkthrough Gameplay No Commentary
Today's Date: March 13, 2017
Bad Dog
Total Chapters Planned: 1
Total Chapters Written: Prologue plus 6
Mean Bunny (2015 NaNo Novel)
Total Chapters Planned: 2
Total Chapters Written: Prologue plus 7
Follow Me Down
Total Chapters Planned: 1
Total Chapters Written: 2
Untitled Prompt Horror Story
Total Chapters Planned: 25
Total Chapters Written: 2
So as you can see, didn't do much this week. Life has been a tad on the busy side of things. So I haven't had much of a chance to really plan anything. But I have been doing things, including catching up on things that my friend has been posting over on AO3.
Now, when I read, I don't read like a writer, I read like a reader. I don't let my knowledge of the writing process color my reactions and enjoyment of a story. I don't go into a story expecting to have it cater to my exact tastes.
But I go into a story with an open mind. And sometimes that knowledge of the writing process, tenses, and POV's, and all the other little goodies come in handy.
Now, my friend got a comment. The short and dirty of it, this person was trying to say it was a "This character can do no wrong so this character left all that they loved". I can tell you that no, this story was not that. For that matter, it was more of a "Character leaves behind what is tearing them apart to find a little happiness in their life" story.
Just because the character compares themselves to another character is just the character focus coloring the POV.
I'm sure you did come here to listen to me babble about POV's and character's and how they tend to dictate what you say in a story, but I think this is kind of important and something that I have to remind myself about occasionally.
When you write in First Person, you are getting all of their observations and all of their thoughts. From the characters Point of View. You don't get a full range of details but you get more insight into the person themselves.
When you write in Third Person, you are seeing the full picture. You are seeing the details that the characters miss. You are seeing all of the reactions of the characters, the setting, all the little things that help build things up.
I used to write in First person and let me tell you that was hard to do because if the character didn't observe it, it didn't exist. I now write in Third person with a past tense.
Anyways, when writing in Third person, as my friend was doing and I tend to do, if you're writing with a focus on a single character, their personality and opinions are going to color the words that you write. Their personality dictates how the words talk about other characters, and their opinions tell the tale.
For example: If one character hates another, a focused chapter or scene in Third person will talk very little about that person unless it's a needed chapter/scene. Then the scene will show how character A hates character B.
When it comes to writing, reminding yourself that you're not writing yourself, you are writing a character with a mind, a personality, and opinions. And when writing a focused chapter, all of that will bleed onto the page in a wider range. Third person is just First person through the reader's eyes and mind after all.
Anyways, I'm going to go back to watching today's earworm nnd writing. I have much to do and little time to do it.
Today's Date: March 13, 2017
Bad Dog
Total Chapters Planned: 1
Total Chapters Written: Prologue plus 6
Mean Bunny (2015 NaNo Novel)
Total Chapters Planned: 2
Total Chapters Written: Prologue plus 7
Total Chapters Planned: 1
Total Chapters Written: 2
Total Chapters Planned: 25
Total Chapters Written: 2
So as you can see, didn't do much this week. Life has been a tad on the busy side of things. So I haven't had much of a chance to really plan anything. But I have been doing things, including catching up on things that my friend has been posting over on AO3.
Now, when I read, I don't read like a writer, I read like a reader. I don't let my knowledge of the writing process color my reactions and enjoyment of a story. I don't go into a story expecting to have it cater to my exact tastes.
But I go into a story with an open mind. And sometimes that knowledge of the writing process, tenses, and POV's, and all the other little goodies come in handy.
Now, my friend got a comment. The short and dirty of it, this person was trying to say it was a "This character can do no wrong so this character left all that they loved". I can tell you that no, this story was not that. For that matter, it was more of a "Character leaves behind what is tearing them apart to find a little happiness in their life" story.
Just because the character compares themselves to another character is just the character focus coloring the POV.
I'm sure you did come here to listen to me babble about POV's and character's and how they tend to dictate what you say in a story, but I think this is kind of important and something that I have to remind myself about occasionally.
When you write in First Person, you are getting all of their observations and all of their thoughts. From the characters Point of View. You don't get a full range of details but you get more insight into the person themselves.
When you write in Third Person, you are seeing the full picture. You are seeing the details that the characters miss. You are seeing all of the reactions of the characters, the setting, all the little things that help build things up.
I used to write in First person and let me tell you that was hard to do because if the character didn't observe it, it didn't exist. I now write in Third person with a past tense.
Anyways, when writing in Third person, as my friend was doing and I tend to do, if you're writing with a focus on a single character, their personality and opinions are going to color the words that you write. Their personality dictates how the words talk about other characters, and their opinions tell the tale.
For example: If one character hates another, a focused chapter or scene in Third person will talk very little about that person unless it's a needed chapter/scene. Then the scene will show how character A hates character B.
When it comes to writing, reminding yourself that you're not writing yourself, you are writing a character with a mind, a personality, and opinions. And when writing a focused chapter, all of that will bleed onto the page in a wider range. Third person is just First person through the reader's eyes and mind after all.
Anyways, I'm going to go back to watching today's earworm nnd writing. I have much to do and little time to do it.
Monday, February 13, 2017
Let's Talk...Info Dumping
Today's Earworm:
Today's Date: February 13, 2017
Yes, I know, I'm doing quite a bit of the Let's Talk Series, right? Well, the reason why is because I'm rewriting the Settling Down to Write Series and I want to get most of them done before moving on to something else.
But why am I here to talk about information dumping and just what the hell is it?
Well, it's what it sounds like. It's when you dump a lot of information into a short space of time. Or in a piece of writing, when you put all of your information into only 2 to 10 paragraphs. When you write a story, you want to tell the story, but that includes building up the setting, the characters, the plot, and kick starting it all.
But you want to spread the information out. You don't want to just go "here, have all this information about the main character and the setting that you're going to forget because there is just to much".
Look, we retain information a lot better when it's introduced slowly and it's woven in around the story itself, which we're enjoying.
So when a sudden flood of information happens, it throws off a reader and makes it hard to remember those details. Which doesn't exactly make a reader want to read the book after that.
Which is a bad thing since as writers, we want them to read the book. And then, hopefully, tell their friends to buy and read the book so that we can make more money to continue to write amazing books that will have them coming back for more.
But how do you stop just dumping the information out?
It's actually very easy to dump the info so you might not notice it...until you go back to reread it. So, as to stopping it while writing it, you need to keep a note on what you've introduced during that chapter and what you need to yet introduce. And then keep an eye out just chunks of text filled with thoughts and ideas.
It's all about keeping introductory points down in each chapter. For me, as a rule of thumb, I tend to keep it to one to two interconnected introductory points.
What do I mean by that?
Well, in the prologue of Bad Dog, I introduce my Idiot Villain and what he is doing. Pretty much I have him sitting in his 'home' and going over a list of herbs and ritual items that he needs. That's an interconnected introductory point. It's introducing my character and introducing what he is doing at the moment.
Another chapter has him burying a body and meeting a werewolf after he has done so. Again, these are interconnected introductory points. Even if they don't look like it at first glance, they are.
Unfortunately, I have something like 10 introductory points that all branch off of one point in the first official chapter. I need to figure out what points I want to go over in that first chapter and go through the other points later on in the story, spread out.
Dialogue is your friend for a lot of things, but you also need to weave in the details that make up the world into the story itself.
It's kind of annoying trying to remember to weave instead of just going "here, have at it". As easy as it may be to just give a reader all of the details, again, it turns them off. So, remember to edit. Spread out your points. And keep an eye out for an information dump.
I'm still fixing my own dump. A week after I found it.
Today's Date: February 13, 2017
Yes, I know, I'm doing quite a bit of the Let's Talk Series, right? Well, the reason why is because I'm rewriting the Settling Down to Write Series and I want to get most of them done before moving on to something else.
But why am I here to talk about information dumping and just what the hell is it?
Well, it's what it sounds like. It's when you dump a lot of information into a short space of time. Or in a piece of writing, when you put all of your information into only 2 to 10 paragraphs. When you write a story, you want to tell the story, but that includes building up the setting, the characters, the plot, and kick starting it all.
But you want to spread the information out. You don't want to just go "here, have all this information about the main character and the setting that you're going to forget because there is just to much".
Look, we retain information a lot better when it's introduced slowly and it's woven in around the story itself, which we're enjoying.
So when a sudden flood of information happens, it throws off a reader and makes it hard to remember those details. Which doesn't exactly make a reader want to read the book after that.
Which is a bad thing since as writers, we want them to read the book. And then, hopefully, tell their friends to buy and read the book so that we can make more money to continue to write amazing books that will have them coming back for more.
But how do you stop just dumping the information out?
It's actually very easy to dump the info so you might not notice it...until you go back to reread it. So, as to stopping it while writing it, you need to keep a note on what you've introduced during that chapter and what you need to yet introduce. And then keep an eye out just chunks of text filled with thoughts and ideas.
It's all about keeping introductory points down in each chapter. For me, as a rule of thumb, I tend to keep it to one to two interconnected introductory points.
What do I mean by that?
Well, in the prologue of Bad Dog, I introduce my Idiot Villain and what he is doing. Pretty much I have him sitting in his 'home' and going over a list of herbs and ritual items that he needs. That's an interconnected introductory point. It's introducing my character and introducing what he is doing at the moment.
Another chapter has him burying a body and meeting a werewolf after he has done so. Again, these are interconnected introductory points. Even if they don't look like it at first glance, they are.
Unfortunately, I have something like 10 introductory points that all branch off of one point in the first official chapter. I need to figure out what points I want to go over in that first chapter and go through the other points later on in the story, spread out.
Dialogue is your friend for a lot of things, but you also need to weave in the details that make up the world into the story itself.
It's kind of annoying trying to remember to weave instead of just going "here, have at it". As easy as it may be to just give a reader all of the details, again, it turns them off. So, remember to edit. Spread out your points. And keep an eye out for an information dump.
I'm still fixing my own dump. A week after I found it.
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Monthly Writing Update - January 2017
Today's EarWorm:
Today's Date: January 31, 2017
Next Update: February 28, 2017
This is the first round of my Monthly Writing Up. This will happen on the last day of every month. That means if there is 28 days in a month, it will be on the 28th. If there are 30 days in a month, it will be on the 30th. If there is 31 days in a month, it will be on the 31st.
I'm sure that you get the idea yes?
Anyways, this is the first round and I'm still figuring out how I'm doing this, so work with me and comment if you find this easy to read.
Thank you.
I'm not really sure on how I will end up with the lay out but this is the first try. I'm pretty much going to do a day by day hit of what words I got.
So, let's start this round.
January 1: 1,579
January 2 to 5: No words. Busy
January 6: 250
January 7: 1,679
January 8 to January 11: No words
January 12: 1,868
January 13: 1,404, Edited
January 14 to January 16: No words
January 17: Edited, 203
January 18: No words
January 19: 1,596
January 20: 2.030
January 21:
January 22
January 23
January 24
January 25
January 26
January 27
January 28
January 29
January 30
January 31
Today's Date: January 31, 2017
Next Update: February 28, 2017
This is the first round of my Monthly Writing Up. This will happen on the last day of every month. That means if there is 28 days in a month, it will be on the 28th. If there are 30 days in a month, it will be on the 30th. If there is 31 days in a month, it will be on the 31st.
I'm sure that you get the idea yes?
Anyways, this is the first round and I'm still figuring out how I'm doing this, so work with me and comment if you find this easy to read.
Thank you.
I'm not really sure on how I will end up with the lay out but this is the first try. I'm pretty much going to do a day by day hit of what words I got.
So, let's start this round.
January 1: 1,579
January 2 to 5: No words. Busy
January 6: 250
January 7: 1,679
January 8 to January 11: No words
January 12: 1,868
January 13: 1,404, Edited
January 14 to January 16: No words
January 17: Edited, 203
January 18: No words
January 19: 1,596
January 20: 2.030
January 21:
January 22
January 23
January 24
January 25
January 26
January 27
January 28
January 29
January 30
January 31
Monday, January 2, 2017
A New Year and a New List
Today's Earworm: Fear Not This Night by Freya Catherine
Today's Date: January 2, 2017
If you want to compare this list with the last list (2/1/2016) go here. There really isn't much change outside of me going more into details as to what the stories/series are going into and the state of each book.
Now that I've said that, HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope that you are warm and cozy at this time and that life is treating you semi-well.
And that you're staying safe. Seriously you guys.
Me, I'm trying to get something done this year. I have a list, which will be at the end, of the books I'm hoping to work on right now.
So let's go over what I have going on shall we?
And once again, the setup is this:
Title:
Genre:
Pairing styles: (M/M, Poly, F/F, M/F, none)
Books in the series (if a series):
Today's Date: January 2, 2017
If you want to compare this list with the last list (2/1/2016) go here. There really isn't much change outside of me going more into details as to what the stories/series are going into and the state of each book.
Now that I've said that, HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope that you are warm and cozy at this time and that life is treating you semi-well.
And that you're staying safe. Seriously you guys.
Me, I'm trying to get something done this year. I have a list, which will be at the end, of the books I'm hoping to work on right now.
So let's go over what I have going on shall we?
And once again, the setup is this:
Title:
Genre:
Pairing styles: (M/M, Poly, F/F, M/F, none)
Books in the series (if a series):
Status
Minimum words planned for:
Notes on the story:
Title: Untitled
Genre: Romance
Pairing styles: Male/Male (M/M)
Books in the series (if a series): 1
Notes on the story:
Rewriting/Editing/Note Taking
Title: Untitled
Genre: Romance
Pairing styles: Male/Male (M/M)
Books in the series (if a series): 1
Status: Rewriting
Minimum words planned for: 24,000 (1,100 words per chapter)
Notes on the story: This is still my Lex/Rose story and no I don't have any kind of title for it. But I have gotten through the note taking and have written out a new outline for it. It's somewhere around 24 chapters planned out.
Notes on the story: This is still my Lex/Rose story and no I don't have any kind of title for it. But I have gotten through the note taking and have written out a new outline for it. It's somewhere around 24 chapters planned out.
This story was originally 11 chapters in length and when I'm done with this first rewrite, I plan on printing it out to go through it and tear it apart. I do this because it allows me to get away from the computer to edit it without worry. So it's going to be very interesting.
Title: All You Need
Genre: Romance
Pairing styles: M/M
Books in the series (if a series): None
Title: Untitled
Genre: Romance
Pairing styles: M/M
Books in the series (if a series): None
Title: All You Need
Genre: Romance
Pairing styles: M/M
Books in the series (if a series): None
Status: Note taking/Outlining
Minimum words planned for: 11,000 to 22,000 (1,100 words per)
Notes on the story: In the current version of this story, there is 5 chapters. I want to expand it into something like 10 to 20 chapters in length.
Notes on the story: In the current version of this story, there is 5 chapters. I want to expand it into something like 10 to 20 chapters in length.
I want to expand on the world and change the names of the characters and build up the history for a few chapters before I introduce the main characters. I have 5 chapters planned out already but I don't know if I'm going to keep them or replot those first chapters out. But I do know that I'll be rewriting and writing quite a bit when it comes to this story.
Title: Untitled
Genre: Romance
Pairing styles: M/M
Books in the series (if a series): None
Status: Noting
Minimum words planned for: No idea.
Notes on the story: This one I'm still making notes on because it's so old. I think I might have to print this one out and work from there. It's going to drive me up a wall, I can tell you that.
Notes on the story: This one I'm still making notes on because it's so old. I think I might have to print this one out and work from there. It's going to drive me up a wall, I can tell you that.
Cause it's doing that to me now.
Title: Shades of Red series
Genre: Horror/Paranormal Horror
Pairing styles: M/M, F/M,
Books in the series (if a series): Planned so far is 3
Series Already in the Works
Title: Shades of Red series
Genre: Horror/Paranormal Horror
Pairing styles: M/M, F/M,
Books in the series (if a series): Planned so far is 3
Status: Book 1 in rewrite/writing
Minimum words planned for: 50K (1,100 words min per chapter)
Notes on the story: Yes this series is still in the works, but I'm having quite a bit of fun with this story since my original story is printed out and I'm working from that along with the original file that I did find after the great Flashdrive Reformat.
I am working on what book 2 is doing but outside of that, this particular story is coming along rather nicely.
Book 1: Crimson Shadows - WIP
Book 2: Drips of ?
Book 3: ??
Title: Honey Drops Series
Genre: Romance/Sci-fi/Fantasy
Pairing styles: M/M, F/M, Poly, F/F
Books in the series (if a series): 6 books planned plus a book filled with bits and stories that didn't make it into the main story line
Status: Book 1 - WIP
Notes on the story: This series is being a pain in the ass but I'm working on planning it out. It is still a total of six books plus another book that fills in stories that didn't make it into the main book series for whatever reason. Mostly stories that came to me as I wrote the story that fill in some history. Or gives you interesting bits of interactions between characters.
Bk 1: Nix's Story - In progress
Bk ?: Cho's Story
Bk ?: Kain's Story
Bk ?: ?? Story
Bk ?: ?? Story
Bk 6: Final Book
Title: A Living Zombie series
Genre: Dark Comedy/horror
Pairing styles: various
Books in the series (if a series): 2
Status: WIP
Minimum Words Planned For: 50K
Notes on the story: Big Bertha Rides Again!
Okay, inside joke if you don't hang out with us in the Forward Motion chat room or the Writing Groove chat room and J.A. Marlow is around.
But I have reintroduced myself to this story and I am going to work on this story. It's a lot of fun considering that this is pretty much "A zombie keeps his mind" kind of story. Which I've seen a few times out there (but I've never actually watched/read any of them seeing as I'm picky about my zombie movies/shows/stories).
I'm going to have fun with this though.
Book 1: WIP
Book 2: Planning
Title: Don't Look Series
Genre: Paranormal Horror
Pairing styles: Various (but not really a focus)
Books in the series (if a series): 4+ books
Status: Writing
Notes on the story: I actually started a new first book for this series called "Thread the Needle" which builds up the world into what it is in the main story. It will be going into the family's history and the cities history and all of the good things. So that's going to be a lot of fun to do because it's...going to get kind of sexual for this first book since a lot of the magic in the first book is sex magic.
But there will be other types so don't go thinking that this is a poor excuse to write smut you guys.
Bk 1: Thread the Needle - WIP
Bk 2: A Delicate Thread - WIP - On hold
Bk 3: Twine the Soul
Bk 4: Spin a Yarn
Title: The Ages Series
Genre: ...superheros?
Pairing styles: various
Books in the series (if a series): 8 books
Status: Writing
Minimum words planned for: 50K Per book
Notes on the story: I'm actually on chapter 32 of book 1. I have 36 chapters planned for this story and once it is done I'll be putting it to the side to let it sit and gather some dust before I work on getting it edited and rewritten.
Because this needs a lot of work.
So very much. But it's going to be worth it.
Bk 1: WIP
Bk 2: Planning
Bk 3:
Bk 4
Bk 5
Bk 6
Bk 7 - Final
Title: Untitled Story
Genre: Horror/Paranormal/Supernatural
Pairing styles: M/M
Books in the series (if a series): 2
Status: Writing
Minimum words planned for: 50K
Notes on the story: I'm quite a bit into the first book and I still don't have a good name for it, but that's about normal for me. I have an idea of what it's going to do and I'm still calling it my Mean Bunny story.
Go figure.
Bk 1: WIP
Bk 2: Bellamy's Story - Planning
Title: (Working title) Retail and Supernatural
Genre: Comedy-Horror
Pairing styles: M/M, M/F (not really focused on them though)
Books in the series: 4 planned for, more on the way
Status: Bk 1 WIP
Minimum words planned for: 35K per
Note: This is my brand new baby and I started it for NaNo 2016 but other stories came to be the focus of my month. Such as my Ages bk 1. I have no idea just how long it's going to be but I know just what I want to do with the series and how it will go.
I can tell you right now it starts pretty light hearted, but as the series goes along, things get really dark.
I love it.
Bk 1: Bad Dog - WIP
Bk 2:
Bk 3:
Bk ??
Final Book
Title: Untitled
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Pairing styles: M/M
Books in the series (if a series): 2
Title: "Magical Girl" Series
Genre: Fantasy/
Pairing styles: F/F, M/F
Books in the series (if a series): 2 books
Status: World Building
Minimum Words Planned for: 40K
Notes on the story: Yes, I am still working on this world. It's taking me time because I want to have something of a world going for this.
Bk 1: Planning
Bk 2: Planning
Title: A Magical Taste Series
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy
Pairing styles: Various
Books in the series (if a series): 2 to 10 books
Status: World Building
Minimum Words Planned for: 50K per book
Notes on the story: I still so very much want to do this series but I need to finish off a couple of my other stories before I dive into this rich and diversified world. Because it's going to span all sorts of characters and the such.
I shall have fun.
Bk 1: Forensic/witch
Bk 2: Artist/seer witch
Title: A Family Pack
Genre: Romance/Supernatural
Pairing styles: various
Books in the series (if a series): ??
Statu: World building/plot building
Words minimum planned for: 50K per book
Notes on the story: Actually I need to figure out my notes for this and get is figured out how I want to tackle this series but it's kind of sitting there for the most part since I'm not wanting to do something typical but I still want to do something interesting with this series.
It's just going to take time.
Title: A Twist of Fate series
Genre: action/adventure/survivalist/romance
Pairing styles: various but not the focus
Books in the series (if a series): 2
Status: World building/plot building
Words minimum planned for: 50K
Notes on the story: I had to actually put this to the side. Not because I wanted to but because things go really busy and it's going to take some time in getting around to actually do some research on virus and the such.
But I am working out the plot. Slowly, but surely.
Title: Follow Me Down
Genre: Dark Fantasy
Pairing styles: M/M
Books in the series (if a series): just the 1
Status: WIP
Words Minimum planned for: 50K
Notes on the story: Ah, my baby. I do plan on working on this story come 2017, but I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with it.
The history behind how this story came to be kind of messes with me but I love the story line. So it's going to be fun trying to cut that history away from this book.
Title: Black Veiled Saviour
Genre: Mystery
Pairing styles: M/M
Books in the series (if a series): 1
Status: WIP
Minimum Words planned for: 50K
Notes on the story: I'm working on this and I think I know where I'm going with it, so this is going to be fun to write on once more!
I'm so happy to have an idea on how to get things going.
Title: Untitled Prompt Story
Genre: Horror/Paranormal
Pairing styles: nothing truly important
Books in the series (if a series): stand alone
Status: WIP
Minimum Words Planned For: 30K
Notes on the story: Ah, so what to say about this. I'm going to work on this story as I go along because I need to recreate the outline and fill out the story line itself otherwise this is going to drive me up a wall. So I'll be doing that this year.
Fun times.
Title: Untitled
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Pairing styles: M/M
Books in the series (if a series): 1 (for Now)
Genre: Romance/Sci-fi/Fantasy
Pairing styles: M/M, F/M, Poly, F/F
Books in the series (if a series): 6 books planned plus a book filled with bits and stories that didn't make it into the main story line
Status: Book 1 - WIP
Notes on the story: This series is being a pain in the ass but I'm working on planning it out. It is still a total of six books plus another book that fills in stories that didn't make it into the main book series for whatever reason. Mostly stories that came to me as I wrote the story that fill in some history. Or gives you interesting bits of interactions between characters.
Bk 1: Nix's Story - In progress
Bk ?: Cho's Story
Bk ?: Kain's Story
Bk ?: ?? Story
Bk ?: ?? Story
Bk 6: Final Book
Title: A Living Zombie series
Genre: Dark Comedy/horror
Pairing styles: various
Books in the series (if a series): 2
Status: WIP
Minimum Words Planned For: 50K
Notes on the story: Big Bertha Rides Again!
Okay, inside joke if you don't hang out with us in the Forward Motion chat room or the Writing Groove chat room and J.A. Marlow is around.
But I have reintroduced myself to this story and I am going to work on this story. It's a lot of fun considering that this is pretty much "A zombie keeps his mind" kind of story. Which I've seen a few times out there (but I've never actually watched/read any of them seeing as I'm picky about my zombie movies/shows/stories).
I'm going to have fun with this though.
Book 1: WIP
Book 2: Planning
Title: Don't Look Series
Genre: Paranormal Horror
Pairing styles: Various (but not really a focus)
Books in the series (if a series): 4+ books
Status: Writing
Notes on the story: I actually started a new first book for this series called "Thread the Needle" which builds up the world into what it is in the main story. It will be going into the family's history and the cities history and all of the good things. So that's going to be a lot of fun to do because it's...going to get kind of sexual for this first book since a lot of the magic in the first book is sex magic.
But there will be other types so don't go thinking that this is a poor excuse to write smut you guys.
Bk 1: Thread the Needle - WIP
Bk 2: A Delicate Thread - WIP - On hold
Bk 3: Twine the Soul
Bk 4: Spin a Yarn
Title: The Ages Series
Genre: ...superheros?
Pairing styles: various
Books in the series (if a series): 8 books
Status: Writing
Minimum words planned for: 50K Per book
Notes on the story: I'm actually on chapter 32 of book 1. I have 36 chapters planned for this story and once it is done I'll be putting it to the side to let it sit and gather some dust before I work on getting it edited and rewritten.
Because this needs a lot of work.
So very much. But it's going to be worth it.
Bk 1: WIP
Bk 2: Planning
Bk 3:
Bk 4
Bk 5
Bk 6
Bk 7 - Final
Title: Untitled Story
Genre: Horror/Paranormal/Supernatural
Pairing styles: M/M
Books in the series (if a series): 2
Status: Writing
Minimum words planned for: 50K
Notes on the story: I'm quite a bit into the first book and I still don't have a good name for it, but that's about normal for me. I have an idea of what it's going to do and I'm still calling it my Mean Bunny story.
Go figure.
Bk 1: WIP
Bk 2: Bellamy's Story - Planning
Title: (Working title) Retail and Supernatural
Genre: Comedy-Horror
Pairing styles: M/M, M/F (not really focused on them though)
Books in the series: 4 planned for, more on the way
Status: Bk 1 WIP
Minimum words planned for: 35K per
Note: This is my brand new baby and I started it for NaNo 2016 but other stories came to be the focus of my month. Such as my Ages bk 1. I have no idea just how long it's going to be but I know just what I want to do with the series and how it will go.
I can tell you right now it starts pretty light hearted, but as the series goes along, things get really dark.
I love it.
Bk 1: Bad Dog - WIP
Bk 2:
Bk 3:
Bk ??
Final Book
Title: Untitled
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Pairing styles: M/M
Books in the series (if a series): 2
Status: WIP
Minimum words planned for: No idea
Notes on the story: This one was dumped on me by the beautiful and lovely Jennifer Amriss while we were chatting in her Facebook fan page. And of course she knows that I have this thing for writing naughty things going on, so she handed it to me.
And then ran away.
Claiming she didn't need another damn PNR on her plate. So there's that.
It's going to be a Vampire/Half-Angel pairing and despite how much I've talked about the first sex scene, it's not going to turn into an erotica. Why? Because there will be, I'm thinking, one or two actual on-screen sex scenes. And those are kind of needed due to plans and plots.
Now if I could choose which starting scene I'm going with, I would be happy.
Stories That I'm Not Working on Actively Right Now
Title: "Magical Girl" Series
Genre: Fantasy/
Pairing styles: F/F, M/F
Books in the series (if a series): 2 books
Status: World Building
Minimum Words Planned for: 40K
Notes on the story: Yes, I am still working on this world. It's taking me time because I want to have something of a world going for this.
Bk 1: Planning
Bk 2: Planning
Title: A Magical Taste Series
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy
Pairing styles: Various
Books in the series (if a series): 2 to 10 books
Status: World Building
Minimum Words Planned for: 50K per book
Notes on the story: I still so very much want to do this series but I need to finish off a couple of my other stories before I dive into this rich and diversified world. Because it's going to span all sorts of characters and the such.
I shall have fun.
Bk 1: Forensic/witch
Bk 2: Artist/seer witch
Title: A Family Pack
Genre: Romance/Supernatural
Pairing styles: various
Books in the series (if a series): ??
Statu: World building/plot building
Words minimum planned for: 50K per book
Notes on the story: Actually I need to figure out my notes for this and get is figured out how I want to tackle this series but it's kind of sitting there for the most part since I'm not wanting to do something typical but I still want to do something interesting with this series.
It's just going to take time.
Title: A Twist of Fate series
Genre: action/adventure/survivalist/romance
Pairing styles: various but not the focus
Books in the series (if a series): 2
Status: World building/plot building
Words minimum planned for: 50K
Notes on the story: I had to actually put this to the side. Not because I wanted to but because things go really busy and it's going to take some time in getting around to actually do some research on virus and the such.
But I am working out the plot. Slowly, but surely.
Stand-Alone Stories
Title: Follow Me Down
Genre: Dark Fantasy
Pairing styles: M/M
Books in the series (if a series): just the 1
Status: WIP
Words Minimum planned for: 50K
Notes on the story: Ah, my baby. I do plan on working on this story come 2017, but I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with it.
The history behind how this story came to be kind of messes with me but I love the story line. So it's going to be fun trying to cut that history away from this book.
Title: Black Veiled Saviour
Genre: Mystery
Pairing styles: M/M
Books in the series (if a series): 1
Status: WIP
Minimum Words planned for: 50K
Notes on the story: I'm working on this and I think I know where I'm going with it, so this is going to be fun to write on once more!
I'm so happy to have an idea on how to get things going.
Title: Untitled Prompt Story
Genre: Horror/Paranormal
Pairing styles: nothing truly important
Books in the series (if a series): stand alone
Status: WIP
Minimum Words Planned For: 30K
Notes on the story: Ah, so what to say about this. I'm going to work on this story as I go along because I need to recreate the outline and fill out the story line itself otherwise this is going to drive me up a wall. So I'll be doing that this year.
Fun times.
Title: Untitled
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Pairing styles: M/M
Books in the series (if a series): 1 (for Now)
Status: Planning
Minimum words planned for: Not a clue
Notes on the story: This is a holiday themed one where I wanted to tackle the whole "Santa needs a wife before becoming Santa Troupe". It's actually really interesting and I know who the love interest is, I just have to figure out a few other bits and pieces. Yes, joy. This pounced me near the end of 2016 okay? It was NOT happy making.
Nope. But I'll write it.
Notes on the story: This is a holiday themed one where I wanted to tackle the whole "Santa needs a wife before becoming Santa Troupe". It's actually really interesting and I know who the love interest is, I just have to figure out a few other bits and pieces. Yes, joy. This pounced me near the end of 2016 okay? It was NOT happy making.
Nope. But I'll write it.
What Am I Focusing on in 2017?
I have a couple of lists actually, so how about I give you those lists?
My lists have changed so often in the last month that I've given up having just several lists and narrowed them down to a few of the stories that I am going to really focus on.
Rewriting/Notes/Ect:
Ages Book 1 (I'm hoping by the time this goes up I'll have the last 3 chapters done)
Lex/Rose
All You Need
A Butterfly's Dream
Focusing on:
Bad Dog
Mean Bunny
Half-Angel/Vampire PNR
"Alive" Zombie story
Honey Drops bk 1
Crimson Shadows
Santa Claus PNR
Follow Me Down
Thread the Needle
Black Veiled Saviour
Untitled Prompt Story
Not that long of a list and it helps me to narrow my thoughts down to what I want to finish. So here's hoping that I get at least a few of these off of my list as 2017 progresses.
Rewriting/Notes/Ect:
Ages Book 1 (I'm hoping by the time this goes up I'll have the last 3 chapters done)
Lex/Rose
All You Need
A Butterfly's Dream
Focusing on:
Bad Dog
Mean Bunny
Half-Angel/Vampire PNR
"Alive" Zombie story
Honey Drops bk 1
Crimson Shadows
Santa Claus PNR
Follow Me Down
Thread the Needle
Black Veiled Saviour
Untitled Prompt Story
Not that long of a list and it helps me to narrow my thoughts down to what I want to finish. So here's hoping that I get at least a few of these off of my list as 2017 progresses.
Monday, December 19, 2016
Writing and Rewriting
Today's Earworm:
Today's Date: December 19, 2016
Well now, we're about halfway through December and I'm just...exhausted. Straight up tired. Why?
Because I've been baking (which you can check out the pics of the goodies and all sorts of things here), decorating, and trying to stay up to date on my writing.
On top of that, I got new flooring! Finally! I swear. I'm so happy to have new flooring. I really am. Which means that I've been unpacking all the shit that I had to pack up to lay it down.
But I've done it and I'm sitting here and was thinking about what to write this round.
And then I remembered that in a part of my Story List (coming on Jan 2nd, guys) that I talk about rewriting.
To be precise, what I have to do to rewrite A Butterfly's Dream. Which is a really old story that can be found running around online. I find that the story line is interesting. The story itself needs a LOT of work.
And I mean a lot of work. Enough so that I've decided to do the following rewriting process. Mind you, it's what I'm planning on doing, just probably not in this order.
1: Collect all of the chapters into one file.
What this means is you're consolidating the various versions of a story. That's what I did already. I took the original story (which is only partially written), the rewritten file with new chapters, and my information all into 3 files.
Mostly because that's what my OCD tells me to do.
I have those files and they're formatted for easy of use.
2: Print out the file.
That's right, I'm going to print out the files in full, punch holes into the sides and stick them into a binder for ease of keeping it in place and access. It will be much easier in the long run.
Especially if you're like me and like to read something on paper. Even if you don't, sometimes working from actual paper works a lot better when it comes to working out what needs to be changed.
3: Buy/find all of your supplies.
I need to pick up some sticky notes actually. I learn this from the lovely Inky Laurens (@InkyLaurens) and Liana Brooks (@LianaBrooks) on twitter. They did a video where they took Inky's story, broke it down and used post its for each scene.
I'm going to adopt this style of rewriting once I get the first round of rewriting/expanding done.
I'll find some proper pens and a clear wall and start.
But first I'll need to find an empty notebook or two.
4: Make notes.
This step will include those empty notebooks or two. I'll sit down with my printed out file and start to make notes on characters, settings, plot ideas, and what I need to fill in or add. I'll do this chapter by chapter.
5: Take those notes and put them onto sticky notes.
Once I have those notes written out and ready for this part, I'll pick up the post its and start to write out my scenes, which goes down into part 6.
6: Arrange sticky notes onto flat surface and start to work out the new outline.
Yes, once I have started on part 5 part 6 also starts. I'm going to lay them out in rows and get them all laid out.
It'll take time and it'll drive me insane, but I'll do it. Because once I'm done, it's time to start with part 7.
7: If need be, remove/consolidate/break up sticky notes.
When I start creating a new outline, I'll start to go over the various scenes to work out what needs to go where, how and when. I'm going to clean up the outline and move scenes around.
But...I'll also combine scenes or break some up or even just straight up remove them. It all depends on the scene and what I'm trying to do.
This is where having a solid plot idea with subplot's is a good idea.
8: Do it with a friend.
This part isn't so much a step as it is a good idea when it comes time to start rearranging your outline. It makes life easier. So I'm going to steal my friend Tonya for a day and sit there planning out A Butterfly's Dream.
It's going to take a while since I also need to figure out what I'm doing with the plot in the long run. It's going to be interesting that's for sure.
But again, this is just what I'm going to do.
How do you edit? Rewrite? What works best for you?
For me, this is going to be a new try. It's going to be fun.
Today's Date: December 19, 2016
Well now, we're about halfway through December and I'm just...exhausted. Straight up tired. Why?
Because I've been baking (which you can check out the pics of the goodies and all sorts of things here), decorating, and trying to stay up to date on my writing.
On top of that, I got new flooring! Finally! I swear. I'm so happy to have new flooring. I really am. Which means that I've been unpacking all the shit that I had to pack up to lay it down.
But I've done it and I'm sitting here and was thinking about what to write this round.
And then I remembered that in a part of my Story List (coming on Jan 2nd, guys) that I talk about rewriting.
To be precise, what I have to do to rewrite A Butterfly's Dream. Which is a really old story that can be found running around online. I find that the story line is interesting. The story itself needs a LOT of work.
And I mean a lot of work. Enough so that I've decided to do the following rewriting process. Mind you, it's what I'm planning on doing, just probably not in this order.
1: Collect all of the chapters into one file.
What this means is you're consolidating the various versions of a story. That's what I did already. I took the original story (which is only partially written), the rewritten file with new chapters, and my information all into 3 files.
Mostly because that's what my OCD tells me to do.
I have those files and they're formatted for easy of use.
2: Print out the file.
That's right, I'm going to print out the files in full, punch holes into the sides and stick them into a binder for ease of keeping it in place and access. It will be much easier in the long run.
Especially if you're like me and like to read something on paper. Even if you don't, sometimes working from actual paper works a lot better when it comes to working out what needs to be changed.
3: Buy/find all of your supplies.
I need to pick up some sticky notes actually. I learn this from the lovely Inky Laurens (@InkyLaurens) and Liana Brooks (@LianaBrooks) on twitter. They did a video where they took Inky's story, broke it down and used post its for each scene.
I'm going to adopt this style of rewriting once I get the first round of rewriting/expanding done.
I'll find some proper pens and a clear wall and start.
But first I'll need to find an empty notebook or two.
4: Make notes.
This step will include those empty notebooks or two. I'll sit down with my printed out file and start to make notes on characters, settings, plot ideas, and what I need to fill in or add. I'll do this chapter by chapter.
5: Take those notes and put them onto sticky notes.
Once I have those notes written out and ready for this part, I'll pick up the post its and start to write out my scenes, which goes down into part 6.
6: Arrange sticky notes onto flat surface and start to work out the new outline.
Yes, once I have started on part 5 part 6 also starts. I'm going to lay them out in rows and get them all laid out.
It'll take time and it'll drive me insane, but I'll do it. Because once I'm done, it's time to start with part 7.
7: If need be, remove/consolidate/break up sticky notes.
When I start creating a new outline, I'll start to go over the various scenes to work out what needs to go where, how and when. I'm going to clean up the outline and move scenes around.
But...I'll also combine scenes or break some up or even just straight up remove them. It all depends on the scene and what I'm trying to do.
This is where having a solid plot idea with subplot's is a good idea.
8: Do it with a friend.
This part isn't so much a step as it is a good idea when it comes time to start rearranging your outline. It makes life easier. So I'm going to steal my friend Tonya for a day and sit there planning out A Butterfly's Dream.
It's going to take a while since I also need to figure out what I'm doing with the plot in the long run. It's going to be interesting that's for sure.
But again, this is just what I'm going to do.
How do you edit? Rewrite? What works best for you?
For me, this is going to be a new try. It's going to be fun.
Monday, November 7, 2016
National Novel Writing Month 2016 - Pt 1
Today's EarWorm: Blood Red Roses by c21fx
Today's Day: November 7, 2016
Word Count Widget
So this time, I'm going to try something different. Instead of a kind of a daily thing put together in one blog, which I find kind of hard to deal with really, I'm just going to give you a summary of how I did and the what not.
Let's start with word count shall we?
Today's Day: November 7, 2016
Word Count Widget
So this time, I'm going to try something different. Instead of a kind of a daily thing put together in one blog, which I find kind of hard to deal with really, I'm just going to give you a summary of how I did and the what not.
Let's start with word count shall we?
November 1: 3,005
November 2: 760
November 3: 1,453
November 4: 1,604
November 5: 1,586
November 6: 1,478
Total: 9,882 words
Total: 9,882 words
So as you can see, I did pretty good on the 1st. I got my 3K starter and that's pretty much what has kept me afloat ever since.
Why? Eh, I was feeling ew on the second and had a hell of a time focusing enough to write a new prologue for Bad Dog; day 3 had a new chapter and me crashing out hard early (like 8 in the evening early) and a shopping run with a friend; another shopping run and another chapter, hurrah; the fifth included me staying home, rewriting one chapter and writing a new chapter for something other than Bad Dog.
Hey! All new words count damnit! I'm a rebel. That's what I'm saying to myself.
To go a bit more in depth about what went on.
Day 1 was pretty good all things considered. It was enough to get all the words that I needed and then some. Then again, it's always easy enough to get a good set of words down on the first day. It's easy enough.
Day 2 was spent writing a new prologue on Bad Dog, getting things down and out because I had to introduce my Idiot Villain and figure out just what I need to figure out about him. Let's just say that by the end of the series, you'll find out that he's not the main villain of the entire series. He's just the one that you see.
Day 3, again, was spent writing a new chapter, but I also had to run to the store with my friend to pick up some of her things for the month. I got home lateish and crashed soon after.
Day 4 was spent going to get the last of the things that she needed and getting yet even more words. Nothing amazing. And I also planned out a couple more chapters Bad Dog which is nice. I figured out some more things about the structure of my story to.
Day 5 I lounged around. Wrote. Or tried to do so. Did a jigsaw puzzle on my jigsaw app. Or three. I wrote. Got a chapter on something else. Got a rewrite done for one of my stories. Mourned the fact that I don't have the money to print out one of my stories so I can tear it down to the very foundation of what it is.
That's going to be...fun. I think. Maybe. Lots of work though.
Day 6 was just exhausting. Once more, I was shopping but this time I went food shopping for my household instead of helping my friend with her shopping. Which isn't any fun, trust me.
My hair hurt and that's saying something since hair doesn't feel.
But I got a good sized turkey (20+ lb bird) for about 89cents per pound so it was nice. It worked out in the good for me and my mom. I'm very happy with how things went in the long run.
And I barely squeaked in on my word count for the day even though it was a fight to the bitter end to get the words. Today, I hope to focus like nothing else and just WRITE.
I can hope yes? Yes.
I will see you next week with a fresh and new update! For now, enjoy life. Read a book. Treat yourself to a favorite snack. Watch a good movie. Enjoy life.
My hair hurt and that's saying something since hair doesn't feel.
But I got a good sized turkey (20+ lb bird) for about 89cents per pound so it was nice. It worked out in the good for me and my mom. I'm very happy with how things went in the long run.
And I barely squeaked in on my word count for the day even though it was a fight to the bitter end to get the words. Today, I hope to focus like nothing else and just WRITE.
I can hope yes? Yes.
I will see you next week with a fresh and new update! For now, enjoy life. Read a book. Treat yourself to a favorite snack. Watch a good movie. Enjoy life.
Monday, August 8, 2016
What Is Up With My Stories?
Today's Earworm: "Beautiful Loser" or "Strangers" by William Control
Today's Date: August 8, 2016
What is up with my stories?
To be truthful, my muses are being a bit of a bitch. Excuse the language, but I'm sure that you all can forgive me.
This is kind of normal for me though so I'm not too worried. There was a time where I didn't write a single original piece for like a year, but that was while I was rediscovering myself.
It's just gotten to a point where I need to stop thinking of publishing and just write. No more contemplating the future of publishing and all that I need to know. I will get to that point, I really will. But that time is not right now.
Right now I need to turn my focus to writing and finishing stories.
On that note, I'm creating a new series of short pieces under the Murder and Love banner, with the first 16 piece set called Just a Little Murder. It's a horror mystery with a lot of dark themes and the books to come will be much more descriptive.
As it is, in Short Piece 4 there is some rather callous thinking of forced slavery in the BDSM world, but that is the character.
I keep telling people that my stuff can be dark but do they believe me? Nope. Not until I pull something like this out and show them with all attached warnings. It's highly amusing to see their reactions while they read.
Anyways. I have decided that I need to put aside the thoughts of what I'm going to do with the stories when I finish them and just work on finishing them.
With that said, I've decided to work on When My Eyes Close, which is my 2015 NaNo novel, my zombie fic that was inspired by J.A. Marlow and Honey Drops bk 1. I'm plotting them out and have what I want to happen in them pinpointed.
Mostly.
It's taking me time, yes, but then again, everything takes time to happen, so I'm not to worried really.
I am working on several interesting stories, including a "Magical Girl" kind of world, a Magical Modern world, a dystopia that is based off of my story that I handed over to Forward Motion writers for publishing, and a few others, so no worries about that. Actually, you can see the full list of things that I have in the works here.
I'll try and create a newer list here by September, so we'll see how things go with that.
As it is, tomorrow I'm going to be heading over to my friend's place after some last minute shopping for foods so we can go see "Suicide Squad" in theaters. We're picking up some chips, dips, and adult beverages. My local Albertsons has a "Build your own 6 pack" set up for like 10 bucks? Little less than that. And considering there is Smirnoff, various Mike's products, ales, beers and other goodies? Worth it.
Are we going to drink our six packs? No. I'll probably drink one or two and bring the rest home to indulge in over the next few months. I'm odd like that. I rarely drink but when I do I do it sparingly.
Yes, I'm over 21. So yes, I'm legal. More than. Thank you.
But we're going to need something to relax with on the 11th because we're going to be out ALL day on the 10th. Fun times. Really.
Anyways, I hope to see you here next week! Keep an eye out on Fridays for when I start posting my short pieces. :D
Today's Date: August 8, 2016
What is up with my stories?
To be truthful, my muses are being a bit of a bitch. Excuse the language, but I'm sure that you all can forgive me.
This is kind of normal for me though so I'm not too worried. There was a time where I didn't write a single original piece for like a year, but that was while I was rediscovering myself.
It's just gotten to a point where I need to stop thinking of publishing and just write. No more contemplating the future of publishing and all that I need to know. I will get to that point, I really will. But that time is not right now.
Right now I need to turn my focus to writing and finishing stories.
On that note, I'm creating a new series of short pieces under the Murder and Love banner, with the first 16 piece set called Just a Little Murder. It's a horror mystery with a lot of dark themes and the books to come will be much more descriptive.
As it is, in Short Piece 4 there is some rather callous thinking of forced slavery in the BDSM world, but that is the character.
I keep telling people that my stuff can be dark but do they believe me? Nope. Not until I pull something like this out and show them with all attached warnings. It's highly amusing to see their reactions while they read.
Anyways. I have decided that I need to put aside the thoughts of what I'm going to do with the stories when I finish them and just work on finishing them.
With that said, I've decided to work on When My Eyes Close, which is my 2015 NaNo novel, my zombie fic that was inspired by J.A. Marlow and Honey Drops bk 1. I'm plotting them out and have what I want to happen in them pinpointed.
Mostly.
It's taking me time, yes, but then again, everything takes time to happen, so I'm not to worried really.
I am working on several interesting stories, including a "Magical Girl" kind of world, a Magical Modern world, a dystopia that is based off of my story that I handed over to Forward Motion writers for publishing, and a few others, so no worries about that. Actually, you can see the full list of things that I have in the works here.
I'll try and create a newer list here by September, so we'll see how things go with that.
As it is, tomorrow I'm going to be heading over to my friend's place after some last minute shopping for foods so we can go see "Suicide Squad" in theaters. We're picking up some chips, dips, and adult beverages. My local Albertsons has a "Build your own 6 pack" set up for like 10 bucks? Little less than that. And considering there is Smirnoff, various Mike's products, ales, beers and other goodies? Worth it.
Are we going to drink our six packs? No. I'll probably drink one or two and bring the rest home to indulge in over the next few months. I'm odd like that. I rarely drink but when I do I do it sparingly.
Yes, I'm over 21. So yes, I'm legal. More than. Thank you.
But we're going to need something to relax with on the 11th because we're going to be out ALL day on the 10th. Fun times. Really.
Anyways, I hope to see you here next week! Keep an eye out on Fridays for when I start posting my short pieces. :D
Monday, August 1, 2016
Camp National Novel Writing Month July - 7/25 to 7/30 and Final Thoughts
Today's EarWorm: "Heathens" by Twenty One Pilots
Today's Date: August 1, 2016
July 25, 2016
Words Gained Today: 1,898
Total Words Today: 32,211
Thoughts and Notes:
So, wow. Today was good to me. Or at least mostly good to me. I got up kind of late (because I went to bed kind of late, so whoospies), and started to write. It took me some time and a lot of cursing, but I did get the words down! Which is awesome since I just have over 2K to write and I can easily do that in a couple of days.
So that's what I'm going to do in the morning. I'm going to write. I am also, hopefully, going to get a few more of my short pieces written down. Hopefully.
And figure out what my plans for the next few Monday blog posts are. Joy.
July 26, 2016
Words Gained Today:
Total Words Today:
Thoughts and Notes:
7:06PM:
I have no idea what I'm going to say so I'll just list them off.
1: I have written another short piece for my future blog story bits. It's got big bold warnings at the top. Can't say I don't warn the shit out of you.
2: My back is full on "Fuck you, bitch" mode because I dared to sneeze. going to write a blog about being a spoonie and a writer. Not sure how that will turn out.
Might see it come next week. We'll see how it goes.
July 27, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: --
Thoughts and Notes:
See the 28th's post
July 28, 2016
Words Gained Today: 3,340
Total Words Today: 35,551
Thoughts and Notes:
I have made it over the hurdle of a muse not wanting to work with me. Please ignore the cursing muse. She has a large amount of hot chocolate, coffee and tea at her disposal along with several treats that she is allowed to have.
Now, what happened to me getting my word count done before the 27th as I usually do?
Well...my muse wanted to play with an interesting story subject that kind of formed from my Magical world. I have a duology/series (still trying to decide on what will happen past books 1 and 2 so it might just be a duology) that is very much a tumblr inspired series but with my own interesting twist. Well me and a fellow writer in the Forward Motion chat room got to talking about sexualities. I.E. asexuality, demisexuality, aromanticism, demi-romanticism, and so on.
Which sparked a rather interesting idea for a character who is an asexual witch who practices sex magic and how that would work for this character since they need the sex.
The rituals never said that the sex had to be fun while they were doing it after all. So it's going to be an interesting exercise in presenting this character without pissing everyone off. Because no, the sex in this book will not be for the fun of it between two characters. Rather it's for magical purposes.
It's like sacrificing an animal, fruits or other items to whoever they are calling to this character. It needs to be done for their magic to its job. Simple as that.
So I'm doing more research into asexuality.
Thus my muse wandered off to try to play with this idea. Luckily I got it under control and working on this last bit because I have a mini story (such stories are usually between 5 and 15 chapters in length) that is prodding at my brain so I'm going to go start that.
Get it out of my head for a while.
But I'm happy to have gotten my validation done and in and all that good shit! Hurrah me.
For July 29 and July 30th, please see my final Thoughts and Notes down below.
Final Thoughts and Notes:
What to say about this last month? Cause really? There isn't much TO say about it.
This month has been full of lots of ups and downs, both in my writing and in my personal life. I have been helping a friend get past the loss of the last family member that really cared for her while we wait for her therapy place to have another opening to get anti-depressants again. Which is hard enough to do when you're not doing good as it is, but this is just that much harder.
I've also been editing and fiddling around with a few videos that need to be posted but that does take time to do. Which kind of sucks but it happens.
I did get a story done, which is nice. Even though I wanted to get further into one of my stories, but that happens sometimes. For now though I'm doing a few days of rewriting to give my creative brain a bit of a rest.
I have been doing next to nothing but writing.
My head hurts and I'm exhausted. But this is normal.
Yes, I did get my verification in and I did get my goodies. Which makes me happy.
Now, mind you, I'm not normal when it comes to the amount of wins versus losses in that I have yet to lose a Camp or a Nano. I don't have much of a life outside of my writing okay? I really don't. Mostly due to the fact that I do have issues being around other humans and crowds, and getting around.
So to all those who have done this round, win or lose, congratulations on having joined us in this insanity that is Camp National Novel Writing Month.
See you in November for National Novel Writing Month!
Today's Date: August 1, 2016
July 25, 2016
Words Gained Today: 1,898
Total Words Today: 32,211
Thoughts and Notes:
So, wow. Today was good to me. Or at least mostly good to me. I got up kind of late (because I went to bed kind of late, so whoospies), and started to write. It took me some time and a lot of cursing, but I did get the words down! Which is awesome since I just have over 2K to write and I can easily do that in a couple of days.
So that's what I'm going to do in the morning. I'm going to write. I am also, hopefully, going to get a few more of my short pieces written down. Hopefully.
And figure out what my plans for the next few Monday blog posts are. Joy.
July 26, 2016
Words Gained Today:
Total Words Today:
Thoughts and Notes:
7:06PM:
I have no idea what I'm going to say so I'll just list them off.
1: I have written another short piece for my future blog story bits. It's got big bold warnings at the top. Can't say I don't warn the shit out of you.
2: My back is full on "Fuck you, bitch" mode because I dared to sneeze. going to write a blog about being a spoonie and a writer. Not sure how that will turn out.
Might see it come next week. We'll see how it goes.
July 27, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: --
Thoughts and Notes:
See the 28th's post
July 28, 2016
Words Gained Today: 3,340
Total Words Today: 35,551
Thoughts and Notes:
I have made it over the hurdle of a muse not wanting to work with me. Please ignore the cursing muse. She has a large amount of hot chocolate, coffee and tea at her disposal along with several treats that she is allowed to have.
Now, what happened to me getting my word count done before the 27th as I usually do?
Well...my muse wanted to play with an interesting story subject that kind of formed from my Magical world. I have a duology/series (still trying to decide on what will happen past books 1 and 2 so it might just be a duology) that is very much a tumblr inspired series but with my own interesting twist. Well me and a fellow writer in the Forward Motion chat room got to talking about sexualities. I.E. asexuality, demisexuality, aromanticism, demi-romanticism, and so on.
Which sparked a rather interesting idea for a character who is an asexual witch who practices sex magic and how that would work for this character since they need the sex.
The rituals never said that the sex had to be fun while they were doing it after all. So it's going to be an interesting exercise in presenting this character without pissing everyone off. Because no, the sex in this book will not be for the fun of it between two characters. Rather it's for magical purposes.
It's like sacrificing an animal, fruits or other items to whoever they are calling to this character. It needs to be done for their magic to its job. Simple as that.
So I'm doing more research into asexuality.
Thus my muse wandered off to try to play with this idea. Luckily I got it under control and working on this last bit because I have a mini story (such stories are usually between 5 and 15 chapters in length) that is prodding at my brain so I'm going to go start that.
Get it out of my head for a while.
But I'm happy to have gotten my validation done and in and all that good shit! Hurrah me.
For July 29 and July 30th, please see my final Thoughts and Notes down below.
Final Thoughts and Notes:
What to say about this last month? Cause really? There isn't much TO say about it.
This month has been full of lots of ups and downs, both in my writing and in my personal life. I have been helping a friend get past the loss of the last family member that really cared for her while we wait for her therapy place to have another opening to get anti-depressants again. Which is hard enough to do when you're not doing good as it is, but this is just that much harder.
I've also been editing and fiddling around with a few videos that need to be posted but that does take time to do. Which kind of sucks but it happens.
I did get a story done, which is nice. Even though I wanted to get further into one of my stories, but that happens sometimes. For now though I'm doing a few days of rewriting to give my creative brain a bit of a rest.
I have been doing next to nothing but writing.
My head hurts and I'm exhausted. But this is normal.
Yes, I did get my verification in and I did get my goodies. Which makes me happy.
Now, mind you, I'm not normal when it comes to the amount of wins versus losses in that I have yet to lose a Camp or a Nano. I don't have much of a life outside of my writing okay? I really don't. Mostly due to the fact that I do have issues being around other humans and crowds, and getting around.
So to all those who have done this round, win or lose, congratulations on having joined us in this insanity that is Camp National Novel Writing Month.
See you in November for National Novel Writing Month!
Monday, July 25, 2016
Camp National Novel Writing Month July - 7/18 to 7/24
Today's EarWorm: "Wear Me Out" by Skylar Grry
Today's Date: July 25, 2016
July 18, 2016
Words Gained Today:
Total Words Today:
Thoughts and Notes:
2:47AM:
I am exhausted. Drained. But I'm still up and working on a story. Which is about normal for me. I have gotten some words, so we'll see how I do with the rest of this rewrite on this long smutty smut.
Like 8 pages worth of smut okay? I'm on page 3. I'm sighing and whining so hard right now.
Just...*headdesks* Yeah.
July 19, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 21092
Thoughts and Notes:
I had an early morning appointment. I'm exhausted. I'm going to go to sleep now. Yes, without words. The next few months are going to drive me insane. *sighs*
July 20, 2016
Words Gained Today:
Total Words Today:
Thoughts and Notes:
8:37PM:
Hmm, let's see. I have gotten a chapter written (hurrah) and it's time to move to write something naughty. It's liable to add minimum 2K to my word count. To be honest? I'm still exhausted so I might crash out early again and see if I can't get some sleep in. Then get up tomorrow and write.
But for now I'm going to write. Here I go!
July 21, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 22500
Thoughts and Notes:
See the 23ed edition.
July 22, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 22500
Thoughts and Notes:
See the 23ed Edition.
July 23, 2016
Words Gained Today: 3,377
Total Words Today:26,967
Thoughts and Notes:
9:04 PM
I am not even going to try to fill in what I was thinking during the last couple of days because most of the last two days was spent in a pain filled or drugged up filled daze. I'm sure those of you who follow my twitter account saw that yes, I was working on a chapter. But since it was kind of an erotic scene and I was in pain, it took me until today to get it down and out.
Which really kind of set me back. Luckily, it was over 2K and I was able to get it down. Right now I'm working my way through a rewrite that I started but had to stop because I needed more than just a couple hundred words. But that's about normal for me.
I'm still tired. Still in pain. And very much want it to be the 10th of August so I can hang out with my best friend and go see "Suicide Squad". But I'll continue to wait.
And watch horror movies from South Korea because I love their horror movies.
11PM
Had to re-add all my word counts and figure out what my final word count was. Which was actually in the 26K+ range, so that helped me out a lot.
I am so glad that I keep such detailed wordcount information. I really am.
July 24, 2016
Words Gained Today:
Total Words Today:
Thoughts and Notes:
9:25PM
I am sitting here working on creating a series of drabbles and short pieces for Saturday postings. The first series is going to be called Just a Little Murder and it's actually spawning its own book series. The entire series (both book and short pieces) will be called Murder and Love (or Lust later on. We'll have to see how it goes in the long run.).
So be on the lookout for that. I have 16 short pieces that are currently ranging from 400 to 650 words a piece, and for the information post about what is going on with my short pieces and drabbles.
I'm actually really happy with how this world is coming together, but just remember, the Murder and Love/Lust series are pre-book, and just help fill in some information I'm thinking. That and giving me and you, the reader, a feel for the world.
But I also got a full chapter written. The drabbles alone gave me 1,677 words, but this newest chapter gave me another 1,671 words. So yay!
I'm going to go edit a few things, set up a few chapters for other things, plot the next set in the Murder and Love/Lust series, and maybe fiddle around with some rewriting since I'm now ahead in my word count.
We'll see.
Today's Date: July 25, 2016
July 18, 2016
Words Gained Today:
Total Words Today:
Thoughts and Notes:
2:47AM:
I am exhausted. Drained. But I'm still up and working on a story. Which is about normal for me. I have gotten some words, so we'll see how I do with the rest of this rewrite on this long smutty smut.
Like 8 pages worth of smut okay? I'm on page 3. I'm sighing and whining so hard right now.
Just...*headdesks* Yeah.
July 19, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 21092
Thoughts and Notes:
I had an early morning appointment. I'm exhausted. I'm going to go to sleep now. Yes, without words. The next few months are going to drive me insane. *sighs*
July 20, 2016
Words Gained Today:
Total Words Today:
Thoughts and Notes:
8:37PM:
Hmm, let's see. I have gotten a chapter written (hurrah) and it's time to move to write something naughty. It's liable to add minimum 2K to my word count. To be honest? I'm still exhausted so I might crash out early again and see if I can't get some sleep in. Then get up tomorrow and write.
But for now I'm going to write. Here I go!
July 21, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 22500
Thoughts and Notes:
See the 23ed edition.
July 22, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 22500
Thoughts and Notes:
See the 23ed Edition.
July 23, 2016
Words Gained Today: 3,377
Total Words Today:26,967
Thoughts and Notes:
9:04 PM
I am not even going to try to fill in what I was thinking during the last couple of days because most of the last two days was spent in a pain filled or drugged up filled daze. I'm sure those of you who follow my twitter account saw that yes, I was working on a chapter. But since it was kind of an erotic scene and I was in pain, it took me until today to get it down and out.
Which really kind of set me back. Luckily, it was over 2K and I was able to get it down. Right now I'm working my way through a rewrite that I started but had to stop because I needed more than just a couple hundred words. But that's about normal for me.
I'm still tired. Still in pain. And very much want it to be the 10th of August so I can hang out with my best friend and go see "Suicide Squad". But I'll continue to wait.
And watch horror movies from South Korea because I love their horror movies.
11PM
Had to re-add all my word counts and figure out what my final word count was. Which was actually in the 26K+ range, so that helped me out a lot.
I am so glad that I keep such detailed wordcount information. I really am.
July 24, 2016
Words Gained Today:
Total Words Today:
Thoughts and Notes:
9:25PM
I am sitting here working on creating a series of drabbles and short pieces for Saturday postings. The first series is going to be called Just a Little Murder and it's actually spawning its own book series. The entire series (both book and short pieces) will be called Murder and Love (or Lust later on. We'll have to see how it goes in the long run.).
So be on the lookout for that. I have 16 short pieces that are currently ranging from 400 to 650 words a piece, and for the information post about what is going on with my short pieces and drabbles.
I'm actually really happy with how this world is coming together, but just remember, the Murder and Love/Lust series are pre-book, and just help fill in some information I'm thinking. That and giving me and you, the reader, a feel for the world.
But I also got a full chapter written. The drabbles alone gave me 1,677 words, but this newest chapter gave me another 1,671 words. So yay!
I'm going to go edit a few things, set up a few chapters for other things, plot the next set in the Murder and Love/Lust series, and maybe fiddle around with some rewriting since I'm now ahead in my word count.
We'll see.
Monday, July 18, 2016
Camp National Novel Writing Month July - 7/11 to 7/17
Today's EarWorm: James Michael - Learn to Hate you
Today's Date: July 18, 2016
July 11, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 11,727
Thoughts and Notes:
Well, I was writing but I was kind of foggy for most of the day due to the damn heat. But I did get some planning done! Which was nice.
July 12, 2016
Words Gained Today: 6,442
Total Words Today: 14,900
Thoughts and Notes:
5AM:
I got a chapter written and a chapter edited! I have 5 more chapters of this story to write and a brand new story idea to play with. This is...going to be fun since it's based on the song that is today's ear worm. Go listen. And I mean LISTEN to what he sings. I'll wait.
*waits*
All done? Spoke to you? Yeah, it spoke to me in a deep way that I now need to write something that will rip out a person's heart and puree it before filling a new mold and setting a new heart for them later in the story. It'll be fun.
For me.
Midnight: I got my words.
July 13, 2016
Words Gained Today: 1,453
Total Words Today: 16,353
Thoughts and Notes:
Wow, yeah, today was kind of a very slow day since I was just out of it. Not surprising at all since I got like 2 chapters and a rewrite done yesterday, but I did get my finished wordage today. That's always nice.
July 14, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 16,353
Thoughts and Notes:
Not really sure as to say what happened today beyond the fact that my muses were like rabbits on crack. They could not sit still.
I actually ended up planning out part of a mini-story, several one-shot stories, and some more of my various other stories. So there's that.
July 15, 2016
Words Gained Today:
Total Words Today:
Thoughts and Notes:
2:34AM: It is after 2AM right now. I should be in bed. I am not. Instead, I am writing. My life people.
July 16, 2016
Words Gained Today: 2,059
Total Words Today: 19,209
Thoughts and Notes:
Not much to say about this. Got a long chapter done, and am going to bed at a decent hour. I'm exhausted.
July 17, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 19,209
Thoughts and Notes:
6:30PM
Haven't gotten any words, but have been going through #ShitAbledPeopleSay tag on twitter. I feel all of these! I swear. Gonna go add some of mine.
After Midnight:
I did get words, so no worries, but unfortunately for me, it was after midnight when I finished the chapter, so it's going on to Monday's word count, which doesn't hurt me since it just means I 'll have at least 2 chapters written on the day.
Today's Date: July 18, 2016
July 11, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 11,727
Thoughts and Notes:
Well, I was writing but I was kind of foggy for most of the day due to the damn heat. But I did get some planning done! Which was nice.
July 12, 2016
Words Gained Today: 6,442
Total Words Today: 14,900
Thoughts and Notes:
5AM:
I got a chapter written and a chapter edited! I have 5 more chapters of this story to write and a brand new story idea to play with. This is...going to be fun since it's based on the song that is today's ear worm. Go listen. And I mean LISTEN to what he sings. I'll wait.
*waits*
All done? Spoke to you? Yeah, it spoke to me in a deep way that I now need to write something that will rip out a person's heart and puree it before filling a new mold and setting a new heart for them later in the story. It'll be fun.
For me.
Midnight: I got my words.
July 13, 2016
Words Gained Today: 1,453
Total Words Today: 16,353
Thoughts and Notes:
Wow, yeah, today was kind of a very slow day since I was just out of it. Not surprising at all since I got like 2 chapters and a rewrite done yesterday, but I did get my finished wordage today. That's always nice.
July 14, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 16,353
Thoughts and Notes:
Not really sure as to say what happened today beyond the fact that my muses were like rabbits on crack. They could not sit still.
I actually ended up planning out part of a mini-story, several one-shot stories, and some more of my various other stories. So there's that.
July 15, 2016
Words Gained Today:
Total Words Today:
Thoughts and Notes:
2:34AM: It is after 2AM right now. I should be in bed. I am not. Instead, I am writing. My life people.
July 16, 2016
Words Gained Today: 2,059
Total Words Today: 19,209
Thoughts and Notes:
Not much to say about this. Got a long chapter done, and am going to bed at a decent hour. I'm exhausted.
July 17, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 19,209
Thoughts and Notes:
6:30PM
Haven't gotten any words, but have been going through #ShitAbledPeopleSay tag on twitter. I feel all of these! I swear. Gonna go add some of mine.
After Midnight:
I did get words, so no worries, but unfortunately for me, it was after midnight when I finished the chapter, so it's going on to Monday's word count, which doesn't hurt me since it just means I 'll have at least 2 chapters written on the day.
Monday, July 11, 2016
Camp National Novel Writing Month July - 7/4 to 7/10
Today's EarWorm: We the Kings "Phoenix Hearts"
Today's Date: July 11, 2016
July 4, 2016
Words Gained Today: 3239
Total Words Today: 7,133
Thoughts and Notes:
Mmm, what to say about today? It went surprisingly well. I got lots of words after midnight rolled around. Got two chapters down and introduced a more sexualized character then I normally do. It'll be a slow start for the most part, since I do have to kick a few characters around before we get to the meat of the story.
I also got some rewriting done which was nice. Now that it's after 4AM I'm going for more words and hopefully I'll get them done before I crash out. That is if I don't crash out in self defense from hallucinations. Tea and coffee will be my friends for this month. I swear.
July 5, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 7133
Thoughts and Notes:
Okay, so I got a few words in but nothing to add to my count. Why? Because I crashed out so hard when I finally went to bed. It was ridiculous. I try tomorrow.
July 6, 2016
Words Gained Today:
Total Words Today:
Thoughts and Notes:
5PM:
Oh look, words! Yay for me! I got up at 6:30AM and it only took me until about 4PM to get the words. Why? Because I was exhausted and felt like dragging my feet mostly. Luckily I didn't have to shop today but I'll be doing so tomorrow. Which will be nice.
I hope.
Anyways, I'm going in for more words. Time to roll up those sleeves and get them!
July 7, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 8,558
Thoughts and Notes:
Today was just not a happy day since I had to go shopping. That left me drained and just so very tired.
July 8, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 8558
Thoughts and Notes:
It's nearly 8PM as I write this starter bit to today's section and I'm compulsively scratching at my skin. This tells me that my anxiety is high. It's not because of the fact that I'm doing Camp NaNo, it's because I'm not writing.
That is, I haven't gotten enough writing in for the last couple of days to really do me any kind of good to satisfy my hypergraphia. If you're new to my blog, hypergraphia is like a physical itch, a need to write. I can't just stop writing.
I end up with anxiety and scratching at my own skin. I've already scratched myself bloody a few times since this shit really kicked in, so I'm trying very hard not to do that now. I think that I will take a few minutes, shape my nails (and get rid of any rough edges) and take a hot bath while reading. After that, I will sit down, watch MrKravin on youtube (watching his play through of Until Dawn), write and I think...just ignore the world for a little while.
There is just so much hate going on that people who have all sorts of triggers for their anxiety are probably going through a lot of what I'm going through. We just want the hate to stop, to let us breath and be what we keep saying we are.
I'm not going to get into that because that's just not a pretty thought process and it's not what my blog is all about.
So I'm going to go play some Knights and Brides on Facebook, watch my twitter for interesting links to click that are rather random and have nothing to do with the outside world, take a hot bath, and watch some interesting play throughs while I write.
I'll keep you guys updated on what is going on.
July 9, 2016
Words Gained Today: 1619
Total Words Today: 10,177
Thoughts and Notes:
So I got words. After midnight. I was able to just cool off (since it's been pushing 109, 110 here again) and finish off that chapter. Tried to write after I woke up. Didn't work. Not all that well at least. So I read a lot, crash early, handwrite a chapter to my Superhero novel.
So once I type those words up I'll lay claim to those later this week. So that's nice.
July 10, 2016
Words Gained Today:1,550
Total Words Today: 11,727
Thoughts and Notes:
7:48PM
I am slowly getting words when a fellow spoonie comes up with "Some people have euphoria during migraines? I want."
Now mind you, euphoria during a migraine pretty much means you don't care you're hurting, you feel good emotionally and somewhat mentally while the pills are working. But the moment that migraine is gone and euphoria wanes, there's a crash.
I hate to break it to her, but that crash can be BRUTAL. I have, at least when I feel the migraine coming on. When I wake up to one, not so much because I'm well past that stage into "damn it, hospital here I come" stage by then.
But it's the crash that really can mess with someone. Cause you have all these lovely feelings/thoughts/whatever going through you and they die a horrible death once the migraine is gone. It's like a bad drug trip that started out wonderful okay?
It's not worth it and I've been fighting off sinus headaches for the last two days so I'm going to take some sinus pills and write.
10:45 PM
I got my words. Barely before I have to crash out, and I suspect hard, but I got them! Hurrah. Or something. Ugh.
Today's Date: July 11, 2016
July 4, 2016
Words Gained Today: 3239
Total Words Today: 7,133
Thoughts and Notes:
Mmm, what to say about today? It went surprisingly well. I got lots of words after midnight rolled around. Got two chapters down and introduced a more sexualized character then I normally do. It'll be a slow start for the most part, since I do have to kick a few characters around before we get to the meat of the story.
I also got some rewriting done which was nice. Now that it's after 4AM I'm going for more words and hopefully I'll get them done before I crash out. That is if I don't crash out in self defense from hallucinations. Tea and coffee will be my friends for this month. I swear.
July 5, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 7133
Thoughts and Notes:
Okay, so I got a few words in but nothing to add to my count. Why? Because I crashed out so hard when I finally went to bed. It was ridiculous. I try tomorrow.
July 6, 2016
Words Gained Today:
Total Words Today:
Thoughts and Notes:
5PM:
Oh look, words! Yay for me! I got up at 6:30AM and it only took me until about 4PM to get the words. Why? Because I was exhausted and felt like dragging my feet mostly. Luckily I didn't have to shop today but I'll be doing so tomorrow. Which will be nice.
I hope.
Anyways, I'm going in for more words. Time to roll up those sleeves and get them!
July 7, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 8,558
Thoughts and Notes:
Today was just not a happy day since I had to go shopping. That left me drained and just so very tired.
July 8, 2016
Words Gained Today: 0
Total Words Today: 8558
Thoughts and Notes:
It's nearly 8PM as I write this starter bit to today's section and I'm compulsively scratching at my skin. This tells me that my anxiety is high. It's not because of the fact that I'm doing Camp NaNo, it's because I'm not writing.
That is, I haven't gotten enough writing in for the last couple of days to really do me any kind of good to satisfy my hypergraphia. If you're new to my blog, hypergraphia is like a physical itch, a need to write. I can't just stop writing.
I end up with anxiety and scratching at my own skin. I've already scratched myself bloody a few times since this shit really kicked in, so I'm trying very hard not to do that now. I think that I will take a few minutes, shape my nails (and get rid of any rough edges) and take a hot bath while reading. After that, I will sit down, watch MrKravin on youtube (watching his play through of Until Dawn), write and I think...just ignore the world for a little while.
There is just so much hate going on that people who have all sorts of triggers for their anxiety are probably going through a lot of what I'm going through. We just want the hate to stop, to let us breath and be what we keep saying we are.
I'm not going to get into that because that's just not a pretty thought process and it's not what my blog is all about.
So I'm going to go play some Knights and Brides on Facebook, watch my twitter for interesting links to click that are rather random and have nothing to do with the outside world, take a hot bath, and watch some interesting play throughs while I write.
I'll keep you guys updated on what is going on.
July 9, 2016
Words Gained Today: 1619
Total Words Today: 10,177
Thoughts and Notes:
So I got words. After midnight. I was able to just cool off (since it's been pushing 109, 110 here again) and finish off that chapter. Tried to write after I woke up. Didn't work. Not all that well at least. So I read a lot, crash early, handwrite a chapter to my Superhero novel.
So once I type those words up I'll lay claim to those later this week. So that's nice.
July 10, 2016
Words Gained Today:1,550
Total Words Today: 11,727
Thoughts and Notes:
7:48PM
I am slowly getting words when a fellow spoonie comes up with "Some people have euphoria during migraines? I want."
Now mind you, euphoria during a migraine pretty much means you don't care you're hurting, you feel good emotionally and somewhat mentally while the pills are working. But the moment that migraine is gone and euphoria wanes, there's a crash.
I hate to break it to her, but that crash can be BRUTAL. I have, at least when I feel the migraine coming on. When I wake up to one, not so much because I'm well past that stage into "damn it, hospital here I come" stage by then.
But it's the crash that really can mess with someone. Cause you have all these lovely feelings/thoughts/whatever going through you and they die a horrible death once the migraine is gone. It's like a bad drug trip that started out wonderful okay?
It's not worth it and I've been fighting off sinus headaches for the last two days so I'm going to take some sinus pills and write.
10:45 PM
I got my words. Barely before I have to crash out, and I suspect hard, but I got them! Hurrah. Or something. Ugh.
Monday, July 4, 2016
Camp National Novel Writing Month July - 7/1 to 7/3
Today's EarWorm: Spells by Orgy
Today's Date: July 4, 2016
This one is kind of short since I just started Camp on Friday, and seeing as these things from from Monday to Sunday, this is the last 3 days.
So let's get started, shall we?
I had to work on figuring out what song was the best earworm, but that took me a bit. I finally decided on the above so I do hope that you enjoy.
July 1, 2016
Total Words: 3,894
Total So Far: 3,894
Thoughts and Notes:
So I kind of started rather late all things considered, about 10 in the morning, 3 hours after I got up. I was going to start at Midnight but about that time I got up from my nap with a migraine that was pounding in time with my heart beat. So I took pain killers (enough to drug me into sleep for about 6 and a half hours and leave me a bit fuzzy for the rest of the day), ate some toast, drank a bit of coffee, took a hot shower, and crashed. Crashed out hard.
Well worth it though.
But I did get two chapters on another story written, mostly because it was going to be one long chapter, but I had to split up one of my chapters into two which annoyed me. But hey, I'm not one to leave a long chapter in one piece unless it's sex. Then it stays put because I don't like to split up sex scenes.
I also got a chapter on another story rewritten, which made me happier. I'm going to go take a hot bath and depending on the time here, I will either be going to bed or writing another chapter. We'll see how it goes once I take my meds and relax a bit.
Because tomorrow? Long ass shopping trip. Very long ass shopping trip. Urgh.
July 2, 2016
Total Words: 0
Total So Far: 3,894
Thoughts and Notes:
I went shopping starting around 11 in the morning. I didn't get home until close to 5 that night. And that was with like ten minutes sitting down and eating actual food while figuring out money and budget. Yeah, it was not a fun day.
Haul video is going to be recorded and edited later on. For now I have words to do.
July 3, 2016
Total Words: 0
Total So Far: 5359
Thoughts and Notes:
Okay, so first of all, that total is AFTER midnight on the 4th, so on the 3ed I got no words, but that is my current count.
Let me tell you what, I suffered all day with sore shoulders and a building migraine until I took a damn pain killer and some muscle relaxants. It turned out to be a good thing. But it still took me nearly 3 hours to unwind enough to write the chapter and get the word count.
Which happened just before 2:50 AM in the bloody morning. It's a good thing I have a lot of tea and coffee right?
Yes.
This month is not happy so far. Here's hoping the rest of the month is.
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Today's Date: July 4, 2016
This one is kind of short since I just started Camp on Friday, and seeing as these things from from Monday to Sunday, this is the last 3 days.
So let's get started, shall we?
I had to work on figuring out what song was the best earworm, but that took me a bit. I finally decided on the above so I do hope that you enjoy.
July 1, 2016
Total Words: 3,894
Total So Far: 3,894
Thoughts and Notes:
So I kind of started rather late all things considered, about 10 in the morning, 3 hours after I got up. I was going to start at Midnight but about that time I got up from my nap with a migraine that was pounding in time with my heart beat. So I took pain killers (enough to drug me into sleep for about 6 and a half hours and leave me a bit fuzzy for the rest of the day), ate some toast, drank a bit of coffee, took a hot shower, and crashed. Crashed out hard.
Well worth it though.
But I did get two chapters on another story written, mostly because it was going to be one long chapter, but I had to split up one of my chapters into two which annoyed me. But hey, I'm not one to leave a long chapter in one piece unless it's sex. Then it stays put because I don't like to split up sex scenes.
I also got a chapter on another story rewritten, which made me happier. I'm going to go take a hot bath and depending on the time here, I will either be going to bed or writing another chapter. We'll see how it goes once I take my meds and relax a bit.
Because tomorrow? Long ass shopping trip. Very long ass shopping trip. Urgh.
July 2, 2016
Total Words: 0
Total So Far: 3,894
Thoughts and Notes:
I went shopping starting around 11 in the morning. I didn't get home until close to 5 that night. And that was with like ten minutes sitting down and eating actual food while figuring out money and budget. Yeah, it was not a fun day.
Haul video is going to be recorded and edited later on. For now I have words to do.
July 3, 2016
Total Words: 0
Total So Far: 5359
Thoughts and Notes:
Okay, so first of all, that total is AFTER midnight on the 4th, so on the 3ed I got no words, but that is my current count.
Let me tell you what, I suffered all day with sore shoulders and a building migraine until I took a damn pain killer and some muscle relaxants. It turned out to be a good thing. But it still took me nearly 3 hours to unwind enough to write the chapter and get the word count.
Which happened just before 2:50 AM in the bloody morning. It's a good thing I have a lot of tea and coffee right?
Yes.
This month is not happy so far. Here's hoping the rest of the month is.
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Monday, June 20, 2016
Preparing for Camp National Novel Writing Month July 2016 Pt 3
Today's Earworm:
Today's Date: June 20, 2016
I have decided to do something a little interesting because I keep seeing this running around, so this is my response to a lot of these. And I keep hearing this shit, so this is my response to things like this.
Don't worry, you shall get an actual update on where I am in regards to setting up my story and preparing for Camp this year here soon. Promise.
Anyways: What NOT To Say To a Writer
All of them make my eyebrow twitch in annoyance. Why? Because it's rude that's why!
If you want to see where a lot of these come from, check out the twitter hashtag #tenthingsnottosaytoawriter or just Google Ten Things Not To Say to a Writer. It's not that hard.
1) You write? That must be a nice hobby for you. My wife/partner/whathaveyou *insert hobby here*
Hobby? What is this hobby thing you're talking about? This is my career! I do this because it's what I love and what I can actually do. It's not a hobby.
Kindly stop comparing me writing to a hobby.
2) “Are you still writing?”
Yes, yes I am.
3) What do you mean, don’t drop by, you’re working? You’re just sitting around making stuff up.
4) You’re an author? I’ve got at least ten books in me.
6) It’s irritating to wait a whole year for your next book. Can’t you write any faster?
7) I have the most amazing life story, but I don’t have time to write it. Maybe you can write it and we’ll go 50/50 on the royalties.
8) So can I have a free copy of your book?
10) Do they even publish books anymore?
11) So you write romance novels?
12) I want to write a novel one day.
13) Want to edit something for me?
14) You're not published? Doesn't this mean that you're not really a writer?
15)You need to move on to new material!
16) That’s really cool that you want to write but I could never give up stability.
17) I loved Fifty Shades of Grey! And the Twilight series!
18) You should dedicate your book to me.
19) We don't pay, but it's a great opportunity for you to get your name out there!
Today's Date: June 20, 2016
I have decided to do something a little interesting because I keep seeing this running around, so this is my response to a lot of these. And I keep hearing this shit, so this is my response to things like this.
Don't worry, you shall get an actual update on where I am in regards to setting up my story and preparing for Camp this year here soon. Promise.
Anyways: What NOT To Say To a Writer
All of them make my eyebrow twitch in annoyance. Why? Because it's rude that's why!
If you want to see where a lot of these come from, check out the twitter hashtag #tenthingsnottosaytoawriter or just Google Ten Things Not To Say to a Writer. It's not that hard.
1) You write? That must be a nice hobby for you. My wife/partner/whathaveyou *insert hobby here*
Hobby? What is this hobby thing you're talking about? This is my career! I do this because it's what I love and what I can actually do. It's not a hobby.
Kindly stop comparing me writing to a hobby.
2) “Are you still writing?”
Yes, yes I am.
3) What do you mean, don’t drop by, you’re working? You’re just sitting around making stuff up.
I'm working. What do you not understand about this? If I was trying to do something you consider an actual job, you wouldn't be saying this! I have money to make and only a few hours in each day to do it in, okay?
4) You’re an author? I’ve got at least ten books in me.
Uh, so? I have hundreds of books in me and I'm going to write them all. I don't care if you have them in you. If you do nothing with them, they're not interesting to me.
5) I have a great idea I want you to write for me. Can you draw up a contract detailing how we will split the advance and royalties?
No. Cause that's a lot of work and I don't want to write your supposedly "Great Idea" that is most likely overly cliched make me twitch into an early grave story.
6) It’s irritating to wait a whole year for your next book. Can’t you write any faster?
I'm sorry, did my typing speed annoy you? Does the fact that I have to put a book down after finishing it for a month so I can come back to it with fresh eyes for rewriting and editing purposes annoy you?
Tough. As a writer I have an obligation to make sure whatever I put out is good!
7) I have the most amazing life story, but I don’t have time to write it. Maybe you can write it and we’ll go 50/50 on the royalties.
Me: No.
Person: Why not?
Me: Because I'll be doing ALL of the damn work and you'll be profiting from that. And I know your life. It's duller than that 50 Shades BS. So no.
Person: But...
Me: *sips coffee* No.
Person: *pouts*
Me: *spikes the coffee* No. *goes back to killing off characters*
8) So can I have a free copy of your book?
No. As to why? I need to make money. I don't work for free thank you very much.
9) So what do you really do?
I write. That's what I do. I write. Oh and I make youtube videos with my friend about being broke.
10) Do they even publish books anymore?
Shocking I know but yes, they do create actual real life books still. Surprising I know but there are people who want to have a nice solid book in hand.
Shocking.
11) So you write romance novels?
Person finding out I'm a female writer: So you write romance huh?
Me: Romance? Why? Because I am a female and that's all we can do? I write romance. Very short Male/Male romance stories. But my main genre? Horror.
Horror that will make you wonder where in the world I learned how to screw with a person's mind. Where you're left wondering what that noise you just heard was. Was it the wind? Or was it a murderous creature coming to slowly drain the life out of you.
And make you wonder where I learned to write such things.
Person: *stares in horror*
Me: *sips tea* High school was very informative.
12) I want to write a novel one day.
Uh, that's nice...why not now?
13) Want to edit something for me?
Want to pay me for it? It's 15 dollars an hour currently. And I'm only going to work on it for two hours at a time. It usually takes me about 30 hours to get through a 200 page manuscript to.
14) You're not published? Doesn't this mean that you're not really a writer?
What? Because I'm not published means that I'm somehow not a 'real writer'? Let me tell you, I am a writer for the simple fact that I put words down and then I sit there and beat the story into submissions to get it just right for your viewing pleasure.
15)You need to move on to new material!
No. No I don't. I will write what is fun for me to write and I will make money doing so.
16) That’s really cool that you want to write but I could never give up stability.
Meaning you could never give up your cubical with a possibility of promotion for something that you enjoy and love. Personally, I would love to actually have a job but due to various issues, writing is my career.
Outside of the fact that I love it so much.
17) I loved Fifty Shades of Grey! And the Twilight series!
Those series are so bad it hurts. Twilight is quite frankly a Mary Sue fest gone paranormal, the wolves are shapeshifters, not actual werewolves, and vampires don't sparkle. And Fifty Shades of Abuse is a how to guide to fucking up in the BDSM world.
It's a very BAD fantasy of what the BDSM world should be. And it pisses me off. Don't make me throw you on that bonfire.
18) You should dedicate your book to me.
No. No I should not. Because I don't know you. You only want your name on a book because it'll make you feel good, and because that way you can say you know a published author.
I have my choices for whom the books will be dedicated to.
19) We don't pay, but it's a great opportunity for you to get your name out there!
Uhh, no. No I don't think so. Sorry, but not happening.
If it doesn't come with a pay check it doesn't happen. I have other ways of getting my name out there. Thank you.
Updates
6/14/2016
I am still trying to not write on the story but I have been able to plot out a couple more chapters. I wrote down the summary for chapter 8 and 9 and went "Huh, smut in the first 9 chapters. This is going to be fun". Then...I started writing down pairing ideas.
My next thought? "OMG, this guy is going to get around so much".
Yeah.
Anyways, I have also received the contract for my Forward Motion 2015 Anthology submission from J.A. Marlow. J.A. has been amazing busy what working a new job for the summer and dealing with the loss of their mother.
Soon, very soon, the book shall be published and I'm happy to do this for no money.
Why? Because it supports the one forum that I've discovered that I like the most. So all proceeds from this book goes to upkeep and paying all sorts of things that go into the forum. I am able to publish it elsewhere or even publish it myself in a future collection if I want (which is good since it set off a duology and the scene will make it into book 2 in some form).
I'll keep you updated on what's going on with that and will add a small tidbit when it comes out!
6/17/2016
Ugh! I am not sleeping very well, but I'm still working on creating an outline for the story. I have about a week and a half left before I have to worry about actually writing this darn thing but I'm getting there. Working on watching some anime, getting them off of my list because shit happens.
And that list is amazingly huge. Seriously huge. And some of them are longer than like 6 episodes.
Anyways, I'm getting things done and hopefully I'll get this story at least part of the way done by the time I get to that point. I have no idea how it's going to happen. I really don't.
I'm going to go back to finishing off another story and trying not to cry in horror at not having no extra sleep to keep me from killing people.
I am still trying to not write on the story but I have been able to plot out a couple more chapters. I wrote down the summary for chapter 8 and 9 and went "Huh, smut in the first 9 chapters. This is going to be fun". Then...I started writing down pairing ideas.
My next thought? "OMG, this guy is going to get around so much".
Yeah.
Anyways, I have also received the contract for my Forward Motion 2015 Anthology submission from J.A. Marlow. J.A. has been amazing busy what working a new job for the summer and dealing with the loss of their mother.
Soon, very soon, the book shall be published and I'm happy to do this for no money.
Why? Because it supports the one forum that I've discovered that I like the most. So all proceeds from this book goes to upkeep and paying all sorts of things that go into the forum. I am able to publish it elsewhere or even publish it myself in a future collection if I want (which is good since it set off a duology and the scene will make it into book 2 in some form).
I'll keep you updated on what's going on with that and will add a small tidbit when it comes out!
6/17/2016
Ugh! I am not sleeping very well, but I'm still working on creating an outline for the story. I have about a week and a half left before I have to worry about actually writing this darn thing but I'm getting there. Working on watching some anime, getting them off of my list because shit happens.
And that list is amazingly huge. Seriously huge. And some of them are longer than like 6 episodes.
Anyways, I'm getting things done and hopefully I'll get this story at least part of the way done by the time I get to that point. I have no idea how it's going to happen. I really don't.
I'm going to go back to finishing off another story and trying not to cry in horror at not having no extra sleep to keep me from killing people.
Monday, June 13, 2016
Preparing for Camp National Novel Writing Month July 2016 Pt 2
Today's Earworm: Highwayman by Bessech
Today's Date: June, 13, 2016
Preparing for Camp National Novel Writing Month July 2016 Pt 1
6/7/2016
I have settled on what I'm going to write along with the secondary stories. I have decided to do a story that I'm really not going to go into since I haven't decided if it's going to stay as a fanfic or become an original.
Either way it's going to be fun to write. That's for sure.
I have been planning out the story and talking ideas with a friend of mine for the last few days. Yesterday had me sleeping most of the day away before going to bed at a rather early hour. But I kind of needed it apparently.
But I still have a lot to do yet.
6/9/2016
God, what to say? There's really not a whole lot to say since I'm working on getting things set up and ready to go for this round of Camp.
My back is killing me, my muses are running around like insane little bastards and I'm trying so hard to finish off a few things before it comes time to start this insanity.
What am I to do?
6/10/2016
My muses decided to calm down enough for me to work on things and get other stories down and out of the way. Which is a good thing since I want to get this one story done before I start on Camp here. It keeps coming closer with every hour that passes by me.
And life keeps going nuts on us. I swear. It's driving me up a wall. But I keep going.
Because I can't really stop and just say "I want to quit". Life doesn't work like that, no matter how we want it to.
Yeah, I'm sounding a bit depressed because of real life stress.
Anyways, I just want it to be July already! I really, really want to write this story.
I already have 5 chapters planned out (and 3 out of 8 total written because I did start it but the rules do state that you can continue a story, but you must only count the new words, so yeah) and I'm always plotting what will happen in future chapters. I also need to watch a few things and make notes.
Urgh. Not happy making.
But I'm going to do it because I need those notes for other stories to. >< I swear one day I'm going to have this huge bookshelf just jammed pack full of notebooks with various notes.
I sigh now. And go back to writing.
Today's Date: June, 13, 2016
Preparing for Camp National Novel Writing Month July 2016 Pt 1
6/7/2016
I have settled on what I'm going to write along with the secondary stories. I have decided to do a story that I'm really not going to go into since I haven't decided if it's going to stay as a fanfic or become an original.
Either way it's going to be fun to write. That's for sure.
I have been planning out the story and talking ideas with a friend of mine for the last few days. Yesterday had me sleeping most of the day away before going to bed at a rather early hour. But I kind of needed it apparently.
But I still have a lot to do yet.
6/9/2016
God, what to say? There's really not a whole lot to say since I'm working on getting things set up and ready to go for this round of Camp.
My back is killing me, my muses are running around like insane little bastards and I'm trying so hard to finish off a few things before it comes time to start this insanity.
What am I to do?
6/10/2016
My muses decided to calm down enough for me to work on things and get other stories down and out of the way. Which is a good thing since I want to get this one story done before I start on Camp here. It keeps coming closer with every hour that passes by me.
And life keeps going nuts on us. I swear. It's driving me up a wall. But I keep going.
Because I can't really stop and just say "I want to quit". Life doesn't work like that, no matter how we want it to.
Yeah, I'm sounding a bit depressed because of real life stress.
Anyways, I just want it to be July already! I really, really want to write this story.
I already have 5 chapters planned out (and 3 out of 8 total written because I did start it but the rules do state that you can continue a story, but you must only count the new words, so yeah) and I'm always plotting what will happen in future chapters. I also need to watch a few things and make notes.
Urgh. Not happy making.
But I'm going to do it because I need those notes for other stories to. >< I swear one day I'm going to have this huge bookshelf just jammed pack full of notebooks with various notes.
I sigh now. And go back to writing.
Monday, June 6, 2016
Preparing for Camp National Novel Writing Month July 2016 Pt 1 & Writers Advice
Today's Earworm: Mr. Uninvited by Bessech
Today's Date: June 6, 2016
Today was a day of shopping. Which wasn't happy making, but I got it done! Yes.
Anyways, as of right now, I am setting up to get ready for the next round of Camp National Novel Writing Month, which starts July 1st. Again, I'm going for like 35K for the round, but that's about normal since I usually average about 20 to 30K a month in my normal writing and rewriting work.
I have so much to work on that it's not funny. So I'll just go over what I have in the works that need to be done.
1) Untitled M/M pairing short story
This story is going to end up around 24 chapters in length, about 13 of those chapters are complete rewrites with a couple being split into two parts. It's an older story that I had finished, but after a couple years of letting it sit I decided that it needed a full on rewrite/fleshing out.
So if I do do this story, I'm going to have to write at least one chapter and one chapter rewrite as I come across them. I'll probably end up finishing it half-way through the month.
2) All You Need
Again, this is a full on rewrite/flesh out story that is a couple of years old and I have no idea how long it will be. I need to fill out the first half of the story yet, which means that it's going to be interesting. I have something like 5 chapters planned out so far? When I get to the main chunk of the story there's going to be another 10 chapters added, at least.
I'm still working on getting it planned out since I need to flesh out the world and the plot line yet.
3) Thread the Needle - Don't Look Bk 0
I actually got about 3 chapters into this story before steam just kind of tapered off. I'm working on building the world some more and building the outline but that's going to be interesting to do. That's for sure.
Especially since it's the entire basis for the rest of the Don't Look books.
4) Untitled Superhero Book - Through the Ages Bk 1
I'm somewhere in the 20's chapter for this story (since I don't have that file open right now and I'm not going to open it). I have about 37 chapters planned for this story so I might be able to finish it if I go with this story. We'll have to see how things go in the long run.
5) Random other short or almost done stories
I have a lot of these stories actually. A lot. Most of them are fanfiction but there are some originals, like the Forward Motion 2016 anthology submission that I'm working on. I just need to work it out.
As it is I think I'm going to use this time to think about my Butterfly Living world that I started oh so long ago. I swear that I need to rewrite that first book like nothing else. I might start playing with that idea here soon because that and the Crimson series are both eating my mind. Need to finish a few other stories first.
Fun times.
Until next week!
Today's Date: June 6, 2016
Today was a day of shopping. Which wasn't happy making, but I got it done! Yes.
Anyways, as of right now, I am setting up to get ready for the next round of Camp National Novel Writing Month, which starts July 1st. Again, I'm going for like 35K for the round, but that's about normal since I usually average about 20 to 30K a month in my normal writing and rewriting work.
I have so much to work on that it's not funny. So I'll just go over what I have in the works that need to be done.
1) Untitled M/M pairing short story
This story is going to end up around 24 chapters in length, about 13 of those chapters are complete rewrites with a couple being split into two parts. It's an older story that I had finished, but after a couple years of letting it sit I decided that it needed a full on rewrite/fleshing out.
So if I do do this story, I'm going to have to write at least one chapter and one chapter rewrite as I come across them. I'll probably end up finishing it half-way through the month.
2) All You Need
Again, this is a full on rewrite/flesh out story that is a couple of years old and I have no idea how long it will be. I need to fill out the first half of the story yet, which means that it's going to be interesting. I have something like 5 chapters planned out so far? When I get to the main chunk of the story there's going to be another 10 chapters added, at least.
I'm still working on getting it planned out since I need to flesh out the world and the plot line yet.
3) Thread the Needle - Don't Look Bk 0
I actually got about 3 chapters into this story before steam just kind of tapered off. I'm working on building the world some more and building the outline but that's going to be interesting to do. That's for sure.
Especially since it's the entire basis for the rest of the Don't Look books.
4) Untitled Superhero Book - Through the Ages Bk 1
I'm somewhere in the 20's chapter for this story (since I don't have that file open right now and I'm not going to open it). I have about 37 chapters planned for this story so I might be able to finish it if I go with this story. We'll have to see how things go in the long run.
5) Random other short or almost done stories
I have a lot of these stories actually. A lot. Most of them are fanfiction but there are some originals, like the Forward Motion 2016 anthology submission that I'm working on. I just need to work it out.
As it is I think I'm going to use this time to think about my Butterfly Living world that I started oh so long ago. I swear that I need to rewrite that first book like nothing else. I might start playing with that idea here soon because that and the Crimson series are both eating my mind. Need to finish a few other stories first.
Fun times.
Time for some Advice from one writer to another:
Write. Every. Single. Day.
I can not tell you how many people who come to me and ask me how I get so many words done are always surprised when I simply say "I write every single day". They just sit there and go "No, way".
Yes way.
I get up. Turn my computer on. Go to the bathroom. Come back and log on (because dangit I am going to make idiots log on if they want at my stuff). Go get water/tea/breakfast. Come back. Say hi to my friends and writing cheerleading squad (who are made of the awesome), open a couple of files that I use to type up whatever I working on then.
Make my tea. I usually let my tea steep while I'm doing the rest so I have my sugar and a spoon close at hand to sweeten as needed. I also take the time to start eating.
I then open up my Chrome, and for all the bs it puts me through, the GDocs are still my baby, wait for my tabs to open, and find the tab with my current file.
I start to write.
And write.
And write some more.
I say hi to my friend who comes on. Tell her what file I'm in and go back to writing.
Or I'll be rewriting that day.
If I'm editing, I'm just usually editing my OpenOffice Writer file because I don't want to deal with the gdoc for whatever reason.
I'm doing something in regards to my writing. Anything! Every. Single. Day.
Even those days that I have a migraine that takes down an elephant. Once I can see straight, sit up, and stare at paper or my tablet, I'm working on something. Usually plot points that my drugged up mind comes up with for later editing and figuring out how to make them possible.
It's not amazing. It's not a super power. It's good old fashioned hard work.
Ask any published writer who is serious about their work, and they'll tell you getting into the habit of doing something in regards to your writing takes practice. And time to get used to. But if you really want to see your name on a printed version of your book with some money coming in from sales, you Write. Every. Single. Day.
I'm sorry to say but holidays are non-existent to most writers. We write. Be it on paper, phone, tablet or computer. We write.
To those who are just coming onto this and are horrified by this, go to the Camp NaNo website for the April or July, rounds of Camp, sign up, create your book, set your word count (minimum is 10K), and practice getting words every single day. I use these months as a way to finish off a few smaller projects (as shown above).
Or even join in the insanity that is National Novel Writing Month in November. Go to the NaNoWriMo website and sign up. Minimum word count? 50 thousand words in 30 days.
No, I'm not being paid to tell you to do this but my first Nano was back in 2009. I've won every single one that I've been a part of since. It taught me how to turn off my editors brain to get the words down and out. It also taught me how to write every day without fail.
And I carried those lessons over into my writing career, just like every author and writer before me.
So again: Write. Every. Single. Day. And don't whine about it.
You're the one who chose to pick up writing as a career path. I get enough of that from the 12 to 18 year olds who come to me about writing advice.
Monday, May 30, 2016
Let's Talk...Abandoning a Story and Updates
Today's Earworm: The Way of Your World by Destrophy
Today's Date: May 30, 2016
Okay, so sit back and close your eyes. Imagine you're reading a story (on Fictionpress.net, or WattPad, or any service like that and you come to the last two chapters.
But wait! They're not chapters! They're an Author's Note that is telling you they're ditching the story or stories for whatever reason. Usually it's something stupid like "I don't get enough reviews/likes/kudos/whatever to post more on this so fuck all of my readers who really enjoy this story".
Or they're not even an Author's Note, they're actual chapters but the story hasn't been updated in years, so you go to the profile page of the person. And they state that they aren't doing their stories any more for a bad reason*.
*Bad reasons are those reasons that you have to stare at and go "What? What kind of bull is this?" This does NOT include reasons that include mental problems, emotional problems, computer problems, or reasonable real life excuses.
Now this really pushes my buttons (and the fact that I had to edit this several times to make it less ranty and more actually informative is telling you something I hope) and I seem to keep running across it.
Both in the world of fanfiction and site based originals. In regards to site based originals, I am talking about such sites like WattPad, Adult-Fanfiction, Archive of Our Own, and Fictionpress.net. Yes, AFF.org and AO3 both do have original sections but you have to kind of dig around for the better things.
I can and do understand life getting in the way. I've had stuff make it so that I wasn't posting, much less writing, for months at a time. So thank you to those who have updated us about their lives and where things are going for you , and I hope life balances out and doesn't kill the muse on you completely.
But I can't understand people not trying to find a balance in their life with their writing.
Okay, look. This is kind of an interesting subject because I had to work on finding a balance with my own writing and life when I was younger.
I have to say this again though: I can and do understand that life can get in the way or your writing and this is directed to those whose life is kind of not writing allowable currently. This is directed to those who say that they want to write, but don't do anything to figure out a schedule or work ethic.
I keep finding those who go "I want to be published/publish" but for some reason ditch a story (even if it is just fanfiction or an original on a site) because they're not getting any reviews/kudos/what have you.
I'm going to impart a bit of truth: Unless you are an established writer who has a good sized fanbase who feels they can trust you in getting your stories out and written and looking good, you won't be getting many reviews. Or pimping. Or anything like that.
Allow me to break it down into simple terms. For those who self-publish, they work their asses off to get any kind of reviews for their books, much less any "You should read this book!" reviews. Most traditionally published writers work just as hard depending on their popularity at the time and the company that is publishing them. They tend to still talk about their own stuff on their own blogs, web sites, and social media accounts.
If you have problems with the fact that most readers on a free to read site doesn't review or kudo, then you're going to have many more problems with the fact that your books won't have that many reviews. At least not until you start creating a fan base that trusts you in putting out a good book.
And in this world, holding a book hostage for reviews is career suicide. It's career suicide to hold a chapter to an online story as it is anyways. People are getting kind of tired of that and tend to pick up and move on.
Yes, I do have some stories that aren't done, but that's because I have decided that I need to sit down and tear them into bitty pieces to rewrite them, if not just turn into some new books.
No, I am not abandoning them.
Yes, they will be done.
No, I do not know when the stories will be done.
No, I do not know if I will replace the posted chapters on my sites with the new stories.
I'm not that far along in this process after all. But that doesn't mean that I've abandoned my stories, okay? I'm working on them, and I won't abandon them. The same goes with my fanfiction. I have to much fun with it to give it up ever.
And I don't know if I want to turn my Butterfly Series into something publishable.
Now, onto something a bit happier, as a general update on things, I am preparing for National Novel Writing Month (November 2016) and the next Camp National Novel Writing Month (July 2016), so we're going to see where I'm at when it comes time.
I'm hoping to finish Bk 1 of Through the Ages series, which is my hero series. That will allow me time to set it aside for a couple of months before I start the massive rewriting overhaul of the story itself. I'm also going to work on a couple of other fictions that I need to get done and start a couple of others, including my submission to Forward Motions 2016 Anthology.
I need to rethink my plot for that as it is. I have a few ideas but I need to rethink it.
So I'm busy as always, melting from the heat, and editing videos for my vlog and for the youtube channel that I am a part of with my friend. Need to get the intro video done though if it keeps giving me trouble I'm going to say screw it and rerecord it when I can.
As for the NaNo story that I'm going to do this year, I'm working on a fanfiction idea that is driving me up a wall so I'm going to write it. I have around 11 chapters planned out already. Here's hoping I have the rest ready to go.
Anyways, I have a lot to do today and very little time to do it.
So for now, I shall leave you with this and go about trying to find a story that is complete, long, and not abandoned. Wish me luck!
Today's Date: May 30, 2016
Okay, so sit back and close your eyes. Imagine you're reading a story (on Fictionpress.net, or WattPad, or any service like that and you come to the last two chapters.
But wait! They're not chapters! They're an Author's Note that is telling you they're ditching the story or stories for whatever reason. Usually it's something stupid like "I don't get enough reviews/likes/kudos/whatever to post more on this so fuck all of my readers who really enjoy this story".
Or they're not even an Author's Note, they're actual chapters but the story hasn't been updated in years, so you go to the profile page of the person. And they state that they aren't doing their stories any more for a bad reason*.
*Bad reasons are those reasons that you have to stare at and go "What? What kind of bull is this?" This does NOT include reasons that include mental problems, emotional problems, computer problems, or reasonable real life excuses.
Now this really pushes my buttons (and the fact that I had to edit this several times to make it less ranty and more actually informative is telling you something I hope) and I seem to keep running across it.
Both in the world of fanfiction and site based originals. In regards to site based originals, I am talking about such sites like WattPad, Adult-Fanfiction, Archive of Our Own, and Fictionpress.net. Yes, AFF.org and AO3 both do have original sections but you have to kind of dig around for the better things.
I can and do understand life getting in the way. I've had stuff make it so that I wasn't posting, much less writing, for months at a time. So thank you to those who have updated us about their lives and where things are going for you , and I hope life balances out and doesn't kill the muse on you completely.
But I can't understand people not trying to find a balance in their life with their writing.
Okay, look. This is kind of an interesting subject because I had to work on finding a balance with my own writing and life when I was younger.
I have to say this again though: I can and do understand that life can get in the way or your writing and this is directed to those whose life is kind of not writing allowable currently. This is directed to those who say that they want to write, but don't do anything to figure out a schedule or work ethic.
I keep finding those who go "I want to be published/publish" but for some reason ditch a story (even if it is just fanfiction or an original on a site) because they're not getting any reviews/kudos/what have you.
I'm going to impart a bit of truth: Unless you are an established writer who has a good sized fanbase who feels they can trust you in getting your stories out and written and looking good, you won't be getting many reviews. Or pimping. Or anything like that.
Allow me to break it down into simple terms. For those who self-publish, they work their asses off to get any kind of reviews for their books, much less any "You should read this book!" reviews. Most traditionally published writers work just as hard depending on their popularity at the time and the company that is publishing them. They tend to still talk about their own stuff on their own blogs, web sites, and social media accounts.
If you have problems with the fact that most readers on a free to read site doesn't review or kudo, then you're going to have many more problems with the fact that your books won't have that many reviews. At least not until you start creating a fan base that trusts you in putting out a good book.
And in this world, holding a book hostage for reviews is career suicide. It's career suicide to hold a chapter to an online story as it is anyways. People are getting kind of tired of that and tend to pick up and move on.
Yes, I do have some stories that aren't done, but that's because I have decided that I need to sit down and tear them into bitty pieces to rewrite them, if not just turn into some new books.
No, I am not abandoning them.
Yes, they will be done.
No, I do not know when the stories will be done.
No, I do not know if I will replace the posted chapters on my sites with the new stories.
I'm not that far along in this process after all. But that doesn't mean that I've abandoned my stories, okay? I'm working on them, and I won't abandon them. The same goes with my fanfiction. I have to much fun with it to give it up ever.
And I don't know if I want to turn my Butterfly Series into something publishable.
Now, onto something a bit happier, as a general update on things, I am preparing for National Novel Writing Month (November 2016) and the next Camp National Novel Writing Month (July 2016), so we're going to see where I'm at when it comes time.
I'm hoping to finish Bk 1 of Through the Ages series, which is my hero series. That will allow me time to set it aside for a couple of months before I start the massive rewriting overhaul of the story itself. I'm also going to work on a couple of other fictions that I need to get done and start a couple of others, including my submission to Forward Motions 2016 Anthology.
I need to rethink my plot for that as it is. I have a few ideas but I need to rethink it.
So I'm busy as always, melting from the heat, and editing videos for my vlog and for the youtube channel that I am a part of with my friend. Need to get the intro video done though if it keeps giving me trouble I'm going to say screw it and rerecord it when I can.
As for the NaNo story that I'm going to do this year, I'm working on a fanfiction idea that is driving me up a wall so I'm going to write it. I have around 11 chapters planned out already. Here's hoping I have the rest ready to go.
Anyways, I have a lot to do today and very little time to do it.
So for now, I shall leave you with this and go about trying to find a story that is complete, long, and not abandoned. Wish me luck!
Monday, May 23, 2016
Writers Meme Tag Questions 2
Today's Earworm: Whore by In This Moment
Today's Date: May 23, 2016
And we come to the other half of the asks that I started last week. Remember you can find the list of all 50 questions on Maxkrin's Tumblr Blog along with all sorts of goodies that will help any writer.
Writers Meme Tag Questions 1
26: Which do you enjoy reading the most: physical, ebook, or both?
Physical or Ebook. Now that's kind of a tough one to answer. I like both really depending on what I'm doing. If I'm going for a long trip, I don't want to carry physical books so I'll make sure I have my chargers and bring my tablet to read my books on. But if I'm in bed, I like a real book in my hands.
I have a thing for the smell of paper and ink okay? I'm a writer. It's my kink.
27: Which is your favorite genre to write?
My favorite genre has to be Horror. Especially psychological horror. It's just so much fun to take something innocent or simple and twist it and make others wonder and fear.
28: Which do you find hardest: the beginning, the middle, or the end?
I have to say that the middle is probably the hardest part for me. When it comes to the start, I tend to know where I want to start and how I want to start by the time I want to write, and the end usually writes itself, so to speak. But filling in that point B in the A-B-C of my books tends to be a bitch.
29: Which do you find easiest: writing or editing?
Writing is actually easier for me than editing. Why? It's mostly because I don't want to sit there and read my own writing over, and over, and over again. It's kind of hard to do that, but I push through it. I usually rewrite while I write though so I can smooth a few of my issues out before I edit so that is making things easier.
30: Have you ever written fan-fiction?
Yes, I have and yes I still do. If you want to find me, I'm willing to tell you where to find me but since I would like to keep that part separate from my original writing career, it will be via e-mails or private messaging on one of my man sties. Sorry you guys.
31: Have you ever been published?
Not yet, but I am working on getting there.
32: How do you feel about friends and close relatives reading your work?
It depends on the person and the story. Most of my relatives won't understand why I write male/male pairings much less horror so I don't share it with them. But I do share most of my writing works with close friends who I know will enjoy writing them.
33: Are you interested in having your work published?
Yes, and I'll probably end up doing indie publishing when I get that point in my career. Just takes time.
34: Describe your writing space.
My writing space is actually in my bedroom. It's pretty much just a desk that I bought from Amazon and a rather comfortable chair (now that I got a memory foam sitting pillow). My laptop sits on a lap fan with mouse and keyboard (wired both) attached to it but resting on a keyboard drawer, so that works for me.
My desk is kind of covered in stuff (tissue box, bunny, some candles, wax burner, lip balms, necklace, some rubbing alcohol, suntan lotion, aloe gel, and body lotion). The shelves are covered in notebooks and files.
35: What’s your favorite time of day for writing?
My favorite time for writing has to be around sunset when the world starts to cool down. I don't do well in the heat and unfortunately, I don't do much writing while hot. Which sucks.
36: Do you listen to music when you write?
I do listen to music. It all depends on what I'm writing that will depend on what I listen to.
37: What’s your oldest WIP?
My oldest WIP has to be the Butterfly series, but I'm going to work on creating two different stories in that world. I'm going to focus the Butterfly series as a world on it's own while I work on creating Rye and his husbands as their own world connected with my friend's world.
I just need to get her for like 10 seconds and tell her what I'm thinking of doing.
38: What’s your current WIP?
I have several current WIPs. I have my "Zombie with a brain" story, Follow Me Down, Crimson Drops, Thread the Needle, Black Veiled Saviour, Honey Drops bk 1, a prompt based horror short, and my Lex/Rose story. There's a few that I had to forcibly put down because they'll be shorter series, but I seriously don't want to start those just yet.
39: What’s the weirdest story idea you’ve ever had?
The plot idea for Honey Drops because of the fact that it mixes Mythological creatures with aliens.
40: Which is your favorite original character, and why?
My favorite original has to be Rye. He's just such a broken little mess with so much power that he's not sure on what to do with it. He has two hubbies (for the moment), a Goddess watching his every move, and Fate trying to string him up by his nuts. Not only that he's stalked by a demon he fucked for power, and he's impossible to kill at the moment.
Though people have tried to kill him. Once by burning him at the stake. It wasn't pretty.
He's just a such a lovely little thing.
41: What do you do when characters don’t follow the outline?
I adjust the outline if I feel that it's where the story should go to. There is a good reason why I rarely have more than 10 chapters planned out for any one book. And if I do have more than 10 chapters planned, it's because I know what needs to be done. But the outline is always changing as I write.
42: Do you enjoy making your characters suffer?
Yes. Why do you ask?
Okay, look, I'm a horror writer. I have to enjoy making my characters suffer or the story never goes anywhere and it doesn't read right. If I wasn't a sadistic bitch to my characters the story would fall flat okay?
I'm a nice person to those in the real life.
43: Have you ever killed a main character?
Why yes, I have. Clary was a main character in my Butterfly series and he was killed to help the plot move along. I got some heavy cries of "NOOO" from my readers at the time.
44: What’s the weirdest character concept you’ve ever come up with?
Weirdest character concept? Not really should he's weird but an old blood demon (original vampiric beings which spawned the vampires) that I used to RP with. He was then reformed into one of my brothers for Honey Drops.
45: What’s your favorite character name?
It has to be Alexx because it's such a lovely name. And very flexible. I have a few styles of this character for various worlds and places.
46: Describe your perfect writing space.
My perfect writing space is where I have privacy, sunlight that I'm not directly under, with a comfortable seat and a lovely desk to sit at with access to a TV, VCR, DVD player, computers, music systems, water kettle, coffee pot, and a good supply of both tea and coffee with all needed additives.
I pretty much have that now.
47: If you could steal one character from another author and make then yours, who would it be and why?
One character from another author to make mine? Hmm, not sure actually. It would probably be Son'arrin from my friend who writes "A Demon's Toy" (online story that is going through some MASSIVE amounts of rewriting) but I doubt that I could do him full justice.
He's a broken character just like Rye.
48: If you could write the next book of any series, which one would it be, and what would you make the book about?
Harry Potter. I would love to do a book in the Harry Potter series and write it from Neville Longbottom's POV or from Hermione Granger's POV. Work my way through all 7 books and see how things went through their eyes. They were such interesting characters.
Or even characters like Dean Thomas or Seamus (I forget his last name). It's such a big world that there would be so much to explore even sticking to the canon of the story.
49: If you could write a collaboration with another author, who would it be and what would you write about?
A collaboration with another author would have to be with Jennifer Amriss. She is a wonderful writer and a friend that I made a while ago. So I would love to work with her on a collaboration.
Or I would love to write with Necia Phoenix. She to is a wonderful writer and I would love to see what we could come up with if we sat down and worked out some interesting story lines.
Yes, writers who are indy are the ones that I'm after for collaborations if that ever happens. But I love their writing and their style. It's just so much fun.
50: If you could live in any fictional world, which would it be?
I don't think I would ever live in any fictional world because they all have their problems and I'd rather not run into that.
Today's Date: May 23, 2016
And we come to the other half of the asks that I started last week. Remember you can find the list of all 50 questions on Maxkrin's Tumblr Blog along with all sorts of goodies that will help any writer.
Writers Meme Tag Questions 1
26: Which do you enjoy reading the most: physical, ebook, or both?
Physical or Ebook. Now that's kind of a tough one to answer. I like both really depending on what I'm doing. If I'm going for a long trip, I don't want to carry physical books so I'll make sure I have my chargers and bring my tablet to read my books on. But if I'm in bed, I like a real book in my hands.
I have a thing for the smell of paper and ink okay? I'm a writer. It's my kink.
27: Which is your favorite genre to write?
My favorite genre has to be Horror. Especially psychological horror. It's just so much fun to take something innocent or simple and twist it and make others wonder and fear.
28: Which do you find hardest: the beginning, the middle, or the end?
I have to say that the middle is probably the hardest part for me. When it comes to the start, I tend to know where I want to start and how I want to start by the time I want to write, and the end usually writes itself, so to speak. But filling in that point B in the A-B-C of my books tends to be a bitch.
29: Which do you find easiest: writing or editing?
Writing is actually easier for me than editing. Why? It's mostly because I don't want to sit there and read my own writing over, and over, and over again. It's kind of hard to do that, but I push through it. I usually rewrite while I write though so I can smooth a few of my issues out before I edit so that is making things easier.
30: Have you ever written fan-fiction?
Yes, I have and yes I still do. If you want to find me, I'm willing to tell you where to find me but since I would like to keep that part separate from my original writing career, it will be via e-mails or private messaging on one of my man sties. Sorry you guys.
31: Have you ever been published?
Not yet, but I am working on getting there.
32: How do you feel about friends and close relatives reading your work?
It depends on the person and the story. Most of my relatives won't understand why I write male/male pairings much less horror so I don't share it with them. But I do share most of my writing works with close friends who I know will enjoy writing them.
33: Are you interested in having your work published?
Yes, and I'll probably end up doing indie publishing when I get that point in my career. Just takes time.
34: Describe your writing space.
My writing space is actually in my bedroom. It's pretty much just a desk that I bought from Amazon and a rather comfortable chair (now that I got a memory foam sitting pillow). My laptop sits on a lap fan with mouse and keyboard (wired both) attached to it but resting on a keyboard drawer, so that works for me.
My desk is kind of covered in stuff (tissue box, bunny, some candles, wax burner, lip balms, necklace, some rubbing alcohol, suntan lotion, aloe gel, and body lotion). The shelves are covered in notebooks and files.
35: What’s your favorite time of day for writing?
My favorite time for writing has to be around sunset when the world starts to cool down. I don't do well in the heat and unfortunately, I don't do much writing while hot. Which sucks.
36: Do you listen to music when you write?
I do listen to music. It all depends on what I'm writing that will depend on what I listen to.
37: What’s your oldest WIP?
My oldest WIP has to be the Butterfly series, but I'm going to work on creating two different stories in that world. I'm going to focus the Butterfly series as a world on it's own while I work on creating Rye and his husbands as their own world connected with my friend's world.
I just need to get her for like 10 seconds and tell her what I'm thinking of doing.
38: What’s your current WIP?
I have several current WIPs. I have my "Zombie with a brain" story, Follow Me Down, Crimson Drops, Thread the Needle, Black Veiled Saviour, Honey Drops bk 1, a prompt based horror short, and my Lex/Rose story. There's a few that I had to forcibly put down because they'll be shorter series, but I seriously don't want to start those just yet.
39: What’s the weirdest story idea you’ve ever had?
The plot idea for Honey Drops because of the fact that it mixes Mythological creatures with aliens.
40: Which is your favorite original character, and why?
My favorite original has to be Rye. He's just such a broken little mess with so much power that he's not sure on what to do with it. He has two hubbies (for the moment), a Goddess watching his every move, and Fate trying to string him up by his nuts. Not only that he's stalked by a demon he fucked for power, and he's impossible to kill at the moment.
Though people have tried to kill him. Once by burning him at the stake. It wasn't pretty.
He's just a such a lovely little thing.
41: What do you do when characters don’t follow the outline?
I adjust the outline if I feel that it's where the story should go to. There is a good reason why I rarely have more than 10 chapters planned out for any one book. And if I do have more than 10 chapters planned, it's because I know what needs to be done. But the outline is always changing as I write.
42: Do you enjoy making your characters suffer?
Yes. Why do you ask?
Okay, look, I'm a horror writer. I have to enjoy making my characters suffer or the story never goes anywhere and it doesn't read right. If I wasn't a sadistic bitch to my characters the story would fall flat okay?
I'm a nice person to those in the real life.
43: Have you ever killed a main character?
Why yes, I have. Clary was a main character in my Butterfly series and he was killed to help the plot move along. I got some heavy cries of "NOOO" from my readers at the time.
44: What’s the weirdest character concept you’ve ever come up with?
Weirdest character concept? Not really should he's weird but an old blood demon (original vampiric beings which spawned the vampires) that I used to RP with. He was then reformed into one of my brothers for Honey Drops.
45: What’s your favorite character name?
It has to be Alexx because it's such a lovely name. And very flexible. I have a few styles of this character for various worlds and places.
46: Describe your perfect writing space.
My perfect writing space is where I have privacy, sunlight that I'm not directly under, with a comfortable seat and a lovely desk to sit at with access to a TV, VCR, DVD player, computers, music systems, water kettle, coffee pot, and a good supply of both tea and coffee with all needed additives.
I pretty much have that now.
47: If you could steal one character from another author and make then yours, who would it be and why?
One character from another author to make mine? Hmm, not sure actually. It would probably be Son'arrin from my friend who writes "A Demon's Toy" (online story that is going through some MASSIVE amounts of rewriting) but I doubt that I could do him full justice.
He's a broken character just like Rye.
48: If you could write the next book of any series, which one would it be, and what would you make the book about?
Harry Potter. I would love to do a book in the Harry Potter series and write it from Neville Longbottom's POV or from Hermione Granger's POV. Work my way through all 7 books and see how things went through their eyes. They were such interesting characters.
Or even characters like Dean Thomas or Seamus (I forget his last name). It's such a big world that there would be so much to explore even sticking to the canon of the story.
49: If you could write a collaboration with another author, who would it be and what would you write about?
A collaboration with another author would have to be with Jennifer Amriss. She is a wonderful writer and a friend that I made a while ago. So I would love to work with her on a collaboration.
Or I would love to write with Necia Phoenix. She to is a wonderful writer and I would love to see what we could come up with if we sat down and worked out some interesting story lines.
Yes, writers who are indy are the ones that I'm after for collaborations if that ever happens. But I love their writing and their style. It's just so much fun.
50: If you could live in any fictional world, which would it be?
I don't think I would ever live in any fictional world because they all have their problems and I'd rather not run into that.
Monday, May 16, 2016
Writers Meme Tag Questions 1
Today's Ear Worm:
Today's Date: May 16, 2016
First and foremost, go over to this here Link, and read my interview done by the every lovely Connie! It's my first one and I kind of had fun doing it.
But I decided to do a couple of writer tags but just do them on here since I can't do a video properly right now due to my throat.
So this is part one and the list of questions if you wish to do it yourself is here on Maxkrin's Tumblr Blog.
01: When did you first start writing?
When did I first start writing? Gods years and years and years ago. I was about 12 years of age actually when I started scribbling silly little poems before moving onto fanfiction that will never see the light of day right around 15.
02: What was your favorite book growing up?
I didn't really have a favorite book until I was like 14. And then it was Anne Rice's "Interview with a Vampire" which expanded to a few of her other books.
03: Are you an avid reader?
Yes, I am. I read quite a bit actually.
04: Have you ever thrown a book across the room?
No. No, wait yes, once. When I tried to read "50 Shades of Grey". I threw it hard enough to break the spine.
11: What’s your favorite book cover?
Mmm, not sure actually. But it has to be J.A. Marlow's series book covers.
12: Who is your favorite author?
I don't really have a favorite author actually. Surprisingly enough I really don't.
13: What’s your favorite writing quote?
Frank Miller's quote about a noir hero. It's a good thing to have in mind when writing it.
"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time."
24: What’s your favorite & least favorite part of plotting?
My favorite part of plotting is creating it. My least favorite is sitting down and fleshing it out. It's a pain but it must happen.
25: What advice would you give to young writers?
Today's Date: May 16, 2016
First and foremost, go over to this here Link, and read my interview done by the every lovely Connie! It's my first one and I kind of had fun doing it.
But I decided to do a couple of writer tags but just do them on here since I can't do a video properly right now due to my throat.
So this is part one and the list of questions if you wish to do it yourself is here on Maxkrin's Tumblr Blog.
01: When did you first start writing?
When did I first start writing? Gods years and years and years ago. I was about 12 years of age actually when I started scribbling silly little poems before moving onto fanfiction that will never see the light of day right around 15.
02: What was your favorite book growing up?
I didn't really have a favorite book until I was like 14. And then it was Anne Rice's "Interview with a Vampire" which expanded to a few of her other books.
03: Are you an avid reader?
Yes, I am. I read quite a bit actually.
04: Have you ever thrown a book across the room?
No. No, wait yes, once. When I tried to read "50 Shades of Grey". I threw it hard enough to break the spine.
I. Do. Not. Regret. It. One. Tiny. Bit.
05: Did you take writing courses in school/college?
Outside of the basic English courses, no I didn't. I find that if I try to take a course on writing it tends to mess with my writing and I don't learn anything at all because I'm sitting there going "this is to stiff". It's kind of counter-productive.
06: Have you read any writing-advice books?
Again, they tend to be counter-productive for me, but I have read a few when I was first starting to write and looking to become better. One thing that I've taken from them is all "practice is a good thing" and "editing is your friend". So pretty much what I knew.
07: Have you ever been part of a critique group?
No because the last time someone asked for a crit, I was rather blunt that read as harsh since the bit that I was reading didn't look like she had tried to edit it much less make it look like a story.
08: What’s the best piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten?
Not a lot actually since I rarely share my stories, but the best bit I could have gotten was from a wonderful friend who told me to try psychological horror. I have and have learned that I love writing in that.
09: What’s the worst piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten?
"You suck. Your story sucks. Your characters suck." That's it. Yeah. Not the least bit helpful.
10: What’s your biggest writer pet-peeve?
Dialogue tags and punctuation! I swear people seem to not know how to write dialogue tags with proper punctuations. Let's not go into that yes? It's not that hard to understand. *sighs*
05: Did you take writing courses in school/college?
Outside of the basic English courses, no I didn't. I find that if I try to take a course on writing it tends to mess with my writing and I don't learn anything at all because I'm sitting there going "this is to stiff". It's kind of counter-productive.
06: Have you read any writing-advice books?
Again, they tend to be counter-productive for me, but I have read a few when I was first starting to write and looking to become better. One thing that I've taken from them is all "practice is a good thing" and "editing is your friend". So pretty much what I knew.
07: Have you ever been part of a critique group?
No because the last time someone asked for a crit, I was rather blunt that read as harsh since the bit that I was reading didn't look like she had tried to edit it much less make it look like a story.
08: What’s the best piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten?
Not a lot actually since I rarely share my stories, but the best bit I could have gotten was from a wonderful friend who told me to try psychological horror. I have and have learned that I love writing in that.
09: What’s the worst piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten?
"You suck. Your story sucks. Your characters suck." That's it. Yeah. Not the least bit helpful.
10: What’s your biggest writer pet-peeve?
Dialogue tags and punctuation! I swear people seem to not know how to write dialogue tags with proper punctuations. Let's not go into that yes? It's not that hard to understand. *sighs*
And "Damsel in distress with more than one guy after her". Just...overkilled lately.
11: What’s your favorite book cover?
Mmm, not sure actually. But it has to be J.A. Marlow's series book covers.
12: Who is your favorite author?
I don't really have a favorite author actually. Surprisingly enough I really don't.
13: What’s your favorite writing quote?
Frank Miller's quote about a noir hero. It's a good thing to have in mind when writing it.
"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time."
14: What’s your favorite writing blog? c;
No real favorites again. I watch and read so many that I don't have a solid favorite for various reasons.
15: What would you say has inspired you the most?
My mother. She's been here from day one and encouraged me to find a new story in everything that I do. Which is what I'm inspired by. Just living my life and moving through things.
16: How do you feel about movies based on books?
They would be well done I think but I think that it would need to be watched by the writer if they're alive, or someone who knows the books well enough to make sure that the important things get into the movies.
17: Would you like your books to be turned into TV shows, movies, video games, or none?
I wouldn't mind any of them actually. But my books would probably be better to be movies more than TV shows and video games. Except my Magical Girl series actually. That would make a good TV show if done right.
18: How do you feel about love triangles?
Love triangles actually kind of annoy me to a point. Unless it's very well done, I tend to stay away from them when it comes to reading or writing them.
19: Do you prefer writing on a computer or longhand?
A mix actually. It depends on the story and what I'm doing during that month. During April and July (Camp National Novel Writing Months), I tend to write on my computer with very little longhand, and during November (National Novel Writing Month) I write exclusively on my laptop.
20: What’s your favorite writing program?
My favorite writing program is actually just Gdocs and OpenOffice Writer. I don't have the money for anything else really so I'm happy with what I have.
21: Do you outline?
Yes, yes I do, mostly because if I don't I'm not going to get far.
22: Do you start with characters or plot?
Mix actually. I'll start with a few characters and work the plot out that comes with them.
23: What’s your favorite & least favorite part of making characters?
Creating personalities, figuring out looks, and sexuality. All of that is just such a pain in my ass but I do it.
No real favorites again. I watch and read so many that I don't have a solid favorite for various reasons.
15: What would you say has inspired you the most?
My mother. She's been here from day one and encouraged me to find a new story in everything that I do. Which is what I'm inspired by. Just living my life and moving through things.
16: How do you feel about movies based on books?
They would be well done I think but I think that it would need to be watched by the writer if they're alive, or someone who knows the books well enough to make sure that the important things get into the movies.
17: Would you like your books to be turned into TV shows, movies, video games, or none?
I wouldn't mind any of them actually. But my books would probably be better to be movies more than TV shows and video games. Except my Magical Girl series actually. That would make a good TV show if done right.
18: How do you feel about love triangles?
Love triangles actually kind of annoy me to a point. Unless it's very well done, I tend to stay away from them when it comes to reading or writing them.
19: Do you prefer writing on a computer or longhand?
A mix actually. It depends on the story and what I'm doing during that month. During April and July (Camp National Novel Writing Months), I tend to write on my computer with very little longhand, and during November (National Novel Writing Month) I write exclusively on my laptop.
20: What’s your favorite writing program?
My favorite writing program is actually just Gdocs and OpenOffice Writer. I don't have the money for anything else really so I'm happy with what I have.
21: Do you outline?
Yes, yes I do, mostly because if I don't I'm not going to get far.
22: Do you start with characters or plot?
Mix actually. I'll start with a few characters and work the plot out that comes with them.
23: What’s your favorite & least favorite part of making characters?
Creating personalities, figuring out looks, and sexuality. All of that is just such a pain in my ass but I do it.
24: What’s your favorite & least favorite part of plotting?
My favorite part of plotting is creating it. My least favorite is sitting down and fleshing it out. It's a pain but it must happen.
25: What advice would you give to young writers?
Research is your best friend. That old adage "Write what you know" doesn't have to mean "don't fucking well learn nothing in the course of your damn life". You have books. The internet. Use it! Learn things. It'll come in handy with your writing and with your life to.
Come back next week for the second half of the questions!
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