National Novel Writing Month 2016 - Pt 1

Today's EarWorm: Blood Red Roses by c21fx
Today's Day: November 7, 2016
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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

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.

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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!

Camp National Novel Writing Month April 2016 - Days 25 to 30

Today's Ear Worm: Billy Talent "Pins and Needles"
Today's Date: May 2, 2016

April 25:
Word Count: 0
Total Word Count: 33,622
Thoughts for the Day:

I spent the day going up to Gilbert. I'm exhausted and just to tired to do anything but crash out hard for the day. Nights all.

April 26:
Word Count:
Total Word Count:
Thoughts for the Day:

I have officially validated my novel! Yay! I hit just over 35K words which made me very, very happy. I'll work on getting more words probably tomorrow.

I do need sleep though. Still getting over yesterday's trip.

April 27:
Word Count: 374
Total Word Count: --
Thoughts for the Day:

4:33PM

I actually started kind of late today but that's mostly because I was reading through Necia Pheonix's book and seeing how it read.

Two hours, 22 chapters, and a cliff hanger as I wait for more to come my way...and I'm hooked. *sighs*

I'm going to finish off another short story today since I need to get it done.

Midnight:

I got my rewriting done but that's about it. I started on actual words but only got about 200 in. That kind of sucked.

April 28:
Word Count: 2544
Total Word Count: --
Thoughts for the Day:

I did get those words done! One long as chapter that happily feel in about 2,544 words total, so that made me happy!

I also got a friend hooked on two of my stories. Which is fun. I cackled and teased her with ideas for future chapters. She pouted and demanded more.

Now I'm just rewriting an older story and getting that off of my plate (I'm still pretty damn far from the end actually), but it's slow going since it was well over 3K when I started editing it.

April 29:
Word Count:
Total Word Count:
Thoughts for the Day:

12:31AM:

I am still editing this monster of a chapter. Seriously.

I have no idea when I'll finish this but I've gone through two cups of coffee, a cup of tea, and half a huge bowl of popcorn so far working on this thing. And the entire collection of "Duff Until Dawn" which was like 6 half hour episodes. So about 3 hours.

So much detail to rewrite! This is killer man.

1:19AM:

3 hours, 3 cups of coffee, and a shit ton of squinting and I have gotten it done! *flops* I added well over 1K worth of words to it to, so that was surprising.

Really, really surprising.

I'm going to get ready for bed, crash out for a few hours. Get up at 11 to take a shower and wait for my friend to get her ass over here so we can go do things.

See you guys later!

April 30:
Word Count:
Total Word Count:
Thoughts for the Day:

I've been pretty much working on rewriting and putting down notes for one of my stories. I am still exhausted after yesterday. If you noticed, I didn't write anything yesterday because I was exhausted after all our shopping.

So rewriting and figuring out what to write tomorrow for the final thoughts on this April is pretty much what I'm doing today.

Fun times.

Final Thoughts on Camp National Novel Writing Month April 2016:

So this month was interesting. Seriously interesting since it was so busy outside of my writing.

I had days where I didn't have a single word put down and some days where I couldn't stop writing, which balanced everything out.

I got 3 chapters of "Thread the Needle" down but I need to plan a few more chapters out before I write on it some more. I want to get it done by maybe December, or at least the first draft.

I did get some fanfiction done and I'm working on finishing up a couple of other stories before I do anything since I have so much to finish.

And so little time.

I'm thinking that I will be doing the "Story-A-Day" thing on Forward Motion Writers, level 1 or 2 (which are light versions), and posting them here come June. So keep an eye out for those!

And maybe I can figure out a few of my stories, get a few other things done. Here's hoping.

But I think that I will make sure that July kisses my ass and I work on things during that month. Don't have much else to do after all.

Camp National Novel Writing Month April 2016 - Days 18 to 24

Today's Ear Worm
Today Date: April 25, 2016

April 18:
Word Count: 1,467
Total Word Count: 28,003
Thoughts for the Day:

7:44PM

I have no idea what to say. I'm exhausted, wanting to just sleep for the next six years, but I'm working my way through some Marilyn Manson songs on my spotify so that's always fun. I've also completely rewritten 2 chapters of one of my stories so far, so that is making me happy.

Let's see if I can get a third one done.

Midnight:

I got the last one done. I go boom.

April 19:
Word Count: 0
Total Word Count: 28,003
Thoughts for the Day:

Midnight:

Writing? What is this writing you speak of?

Actually I did get a lot of writing done but I've been meh all day. I got around 524 words on this gift story for a friend chapter done then my mind went "Wheee!" without me and left me going "The flying fuck?".

That's not...really an odd thing though. ADD does that to a person. I figure it was because I wasn't listening to the right music today.

So we'll see how tomorrow's writing goes.

Ah...? What? Oh! The ADD and music thing? How does that work?

Well, for me at least (cause I do NOT speak for the rest of those who have ADD or ADHD, and if you don't know what those terms mean, click the links), I have to have noise of some kind. It's sometimes a TV Show (I watch a lot of anime, and I enjoy Rosewood when I have time to catch up on Hulu). Sometimes it's a movie (horror mostly. I like The Puppet Master and Paranormal Activity most often than not). But mostly it's something like music.

Today I was listening to a band (for the most part) called Abney Park. They're...steampunk meets gothic southern in terms of sound and I happen to really love their song "Airship Pirates". Or "Steampunk Revolution".

But I don't think it was a good idea to listen to them while writing. It may be a good idea later, but not at the moment, but that happens.

I'll see what happens tomorrow.

April 20:
Word Count: 1,792
Total Word Count: 29,795
Thoughts for the Day:

8:31:

Let's see, I got on, took a hot shower because I slept wrong on my shoulder (whoops), and reread over what I had written. I took a moment, got some breakfast of a kind, ate, and then opened twitter.

I stated that I was sitting at 524 words and would be rewriting it. I finished the rewriting at 677 words, and the chapter at 1,503, but now I need to rewrite what I added to the first bit of rewriting.

So no matter how this goes, I've gotten 1,503 words total! Sweet. That makes me happy. But I think I'm going to rewrite for the rest of the day and keep in mind for future chapters that I have the option of rewriting what I've already written, even if I'm not finished with the chapter.

I've also started a twitter hastag list for myself because my superhero series (now called Through the Ages) got it's own hastag (#ThroughTheAge) so that rocked. I also have 8 books in that series instead of 7.

Just made more work for myself there, but that happens I suppose?

But yes, the music was what was messing with me. I've been listening to a list on Spotify called "Writers Block Inspiration" all day long and I've been able to focus. Which is very nice.

9:26:

And yes! Finished that chapter. Going to work on getting some rewriting done. Wish me luck!

April 21:
Word Count: 0
Total Word Count: 29,795
Thoughts for the Day:

I didn't get any words actually. I was just so tired and kind of out of it. But that's about normal for me. But I did start the words. I just didn't finish said words until after Midnight. Whoops?

April 22:
Word Count: 2,040
Total Word Count: 31,835
Thoughts for the Day:

I actually got a chapter done and then rewrote another chapter on another story. Which was a total yay moment since I didn't get to bed until around 9:24AM this morning. I luckily finished the writing before I crashed, since I didn't get up until 4:15 PM.

Whoops.

Yes, I say that a lot.

April 23:
Word Count:1,787
Total Word Count: 33,622
Thoughts for the Day:

9:47 PM:

Whoot! I got another chapter written down and ready to go. I'm about to work on a second chapter now. I'm SO close to winning this camp! Here goes nothing!

April 24:
Word Count: ---
Total Word Count: 33,622
Thoughts for the Day:


-- I ended up being away for most of the day, sorry you guys. --

Camp National Writing Month April 2016 - Days 11 to 17

Today's Ear Worm: Stitches by Orgy
Today's Date: April 18, 2016

April 11:
Word Count: 1,515
Total Word Count: 17,933
Thoughts for the Day:

So after I got something like 3 bits of writing done, I had a bit of a hard time getting back into the writing. But I did get something down and written, so that made me exceedingly happy with that.

April 12:
Word Count: 1,434
Total Word Count: 19,367
Thoughts for the Day:

Again, a long day but I got words done after going from my superhero book to another story that didn't have sex in the next chapter. I'm happy though and I'm going to write happy times tomorrow. Wish me luck. :D

April 13:
Word Count: 0
Total Word Count: 19,367
Thoughts for the Day:

1:36PM:

I had to update the last couple of days because I forgot to do so on those days. I was trying REALLY hard to get those words out but I'm not focused and ready to go at it. I think I'm going to make a cup of Chocolate Orange Tea and write this sex scene in my superhero story.

Midnight:

I didn't make the words. I'm heading to bed because I'm falling asleep over my keyboard right now so I need to crash out. Nights!

April 14:
Word Count: 1,977
Total Word Count: 21,344
Thoughts for the Day:

3:03PM:

After a bit of set up I'm finally getting into new words. Here's hoping that I'll get this done. And yes, I know, my reports of this shit has been getting small.

I've been out of it and doing other things. So sorry.

But I'm hoping to get these a little longer.

9PM:

And I finished the chapter and even did some rewriting. I took a short nap for about 30 minutes around 6, and it was a welcomed distraction. I'm happily awake, for the moment, but will crash out very soon here.

I need sleep that doesn't include me waking up at the butt crack of dawn again. I hate when that happens.

But I suppose that I shall live, yes?

April 15:
Word Count: 0
Total Word Count: 21,344
Thoughts for the Day:

No actual words done. I swear that I got up and then suddenly it was late. I did start to get some words but not a lot all things considered. It's kind of a normal thing but still. That sucked.

April 16:
Word Count: 3,252
Total Word Count: 24,596
Thoughts for the Day:

12:40PM

Woke up and took a shower. That helped me to wake up so I'm going to start on getting some more words today. Cross the fingers.

Midnight:

I got 2, count 'em, 2!, chapters written up today! When I finished that second chapter, I squealed happily and twirled in my chair.

That hurt.

But I had some help. The lovely and sweet Crystal on Twitter (@CE_Writer) gave me some prompts (Owl, poison and haunted house) from her fantasy prompt dice. I took it and RAN with it. I pumped out so many words it was AMAZING.

I even got in a livestream with The Real Crazy M (@therealcrazym on twitter), which was a whole lot of fun. :D

Let's see how I do tomorrow, yes?

April 17:
Word Count: 1,940
Total Word Count: 26,536
Thoughts for the Day:

It is 9:54PM, and I'm about done with the only chapter that I was able to get this round alas. I woke up kind of late, about 1 instead of noon, which is odd for me nowadays since I tend to get up at a semi-decent hour.

Started writing about 3, and had to stop and rewrite everything that I had put down. It's so much smoother and once I finish this chapter, I'll rewrite the rest of it to fit in with the rewritten bit. Here's hoping yes?

11:18PM

As Five Finger Death Punch's song "Lift Me Up" plays on my Spotify, I'm sitting here going "F-my life", just without the censoring. Cause seriously...that was close!

*flops*

For information on where I can be found and where you can see more updates, look below. Thank you.


If you can take some time want to see more up-to-date thoughts and information, please check out my Facebook Page, S.L. Lewis Writing, or my Tumblr, A Peek Into a Creative Mind. Or even my Twitter, S.L. Lewis (@SLStrailo). You can also check out my NaNoWriMo Account,Candy_Lips, and my matching CampNaNoWriMo Account,Candy_Lips.

I update all three on a near daily basis, at least on Twitter I do that more often then not, and my tumblr sometimes.

To watch me reach my word counts, look for #wordcountprodding. For Writer updates, look for either #amwriting or #amwriter, which are both used by others.

I'm also going to do my very first Livestream on Younow on May 2nd. Tune in to my twitter feed to find out the time that I'll be doing it. :D I hope to see you all there.

Camp National Writing Month April 2016 - Days 4 to 10

Today's Ear Worm: The 69 Eyes "Sister of Charity" or "Rosary Blue" Ft. Kat Von D
Today's Date: April 11, 2016

April 4:

Word Count: 1,573

Total Word Count: 5,616

Thoughts for the Day:

I was able to get a good word count today. I also hung out with some of my friends, got things done and got a new pillow that will do until I can get some new memory foam to turn into a pillow. My butt thanks me.

Not a lot to say beyond my characters are sassy little SOB's and that one character has an inner "school girl with a crush" thing going on.

I headdesk now.

April 5:

Word Count: 0

Total Word Count: 5,616

Thoughts for the Day:

I did get writing done on this day, but I didn't finish what I was working on at the time. I was rather busy with other things and couldn't quite get all of the words in. I did get in over 1K worth of words by the time I headed to bed (actually, I landed at 1,596 words), but since I like to count the finished product in my words...I didn't get any at all for 4/5/16.

Which isn't a bad thing! Really, it's not.

It happens sometime and I did get in some good amounts of words.

I have a feeling though that this thing is going to be the energizer bunny of standalones.

April 6:

Word Count: 3,963

Total Word Count: 9,579

Thoughts for the Day:

7:24 to 7:30PM

Fuck. I hate it when I'm right. As of 7:24PM I have 2,944 words on this standalone. Guys, this means that I have a ridiculous amount of wordage going on here for this one thing. And it's not really a part of a story. It's a story in of it's self that is a part of a world.

And of course the ever dreaded thought of "Should I start a sister blog of this blog on WordPress?" has popped up.

Timing with the thoughts, people, it sucks. So very much.

10:12PM

It is just after 10PM and I have reached the end of this monster story! I would put up a picture of a person just flopped over, but I can't find a good one so...yeah. Just imagine a bunny flopping over right now yes?

Okay! Now that I have that done, I have to say that this was a very long stand alone. Granted, I've written nearly 5K worth of words for a standalone, but that's usually mostly a plot that has promise, but it doesn't really evolve into a full on story. This was just pretty much sex.

And a lot of it.

The longest I've really gotten up to for a sexual escapade is around 3,500 words.

But: I have caught up on words. Yay for me!

Back to the words.

April 7:

Word Count: 0

Total Word Count: 9,579

Thoughts for the Day:

3:40
Today was a rather late start due to the fact that me and my mother discovered that the water that we had gotten just a couple of days ago was filled with sediment and didn't taste clean. We're thinking that the water machine that we use had a faulty filter, which happens when it's used as much as it is.

But as I sit here and listen to "Rosary Blue" on repeat, I can't help but turn my mind to "Thread the Needle" and the "Don't Look" series that it's a part of.

And to the thoughts of romance, sex, and love in the books themselves. I have a feeling that there will be relationships and the such but...I'm not finding myself that I want to actually plan out those relationships.

It's kind of a new experience for me.

April 8:

Word Count:

Total Word Count:

Thoughts for the Day:

11:17 AM

I'm sitting here watching a video that Akidearest had posted on youtube, using the audio from an address to a graduating class by Neil Gaiman, and I had to find the original video that brought me to something of a realization. 

The part where he goes "Make Good Art". He talked, in the full speech, about losing himself to the day to day things, about losing the drive to write because he was so busy answering e-mails. Or he was doing this, or that. And that when he learned to say No, the writing came back. 

I think that everyone needs to remember that just because life throws a curve ball at you, you should continue to Make Good Art, come hell or high water, because it makes you happy. 

I'm going to create something that will remind me of this and stick it on the wall before me. 

For now I'm going to try to catch up on words since yesterday was all sorts of overcast and made me sluggy. Today it's just rain randomly.

April 9:
Word Count: 780
Total Word Count: 11,856
Thoughts for the Day:

I kind of ended up rewriting a couple of chapters on one of my other stories, so thus why the small amount of words. I was drained by going out to get portraits done for my mom. But I did pretty good all things considered.

April 10:
Word Count: 4,562
Total Word Count: 16,418
Thoughts for the Day:

10:14 AM:

I'm actually thinking of working on a series of movie reviews that would come out either on Friday or Saturday. I'll probably do a test run with the Insidious 3 movie series and go from there if I get some enjoyment going from this.

But words are needed for now.

8:50 PM

I got well over 3K by this time and yet...I go for more. Let's see if I can get over 15K here shall we?

9:43 PM

Nearly an hour later and I'm well over 3K in the final word count. In fact, I'm sitting pretty at 4,562 (four thousand, five hundred, and sixty two words).

This puts me at 16,418 words total so far for the last 10 days. I'm shocked at myself. Really! I was not expecting to have so many words so soon! I'm averaging about 1,642 words a day with this. I'm shaking my head.

And watching my brain dribble out of my ears. I'm tired. And I can feel the bunnies want to write more but I can't right now because the bed?

It's looking REALLY comfortable right about now.

So I'm going to log my word count, put my fan up into my window (as long as it doesn't decide to rain again on me), and get some well deserved sleep. I think I need it since I got up rather early to film the rain.

Which I have to fiddle around with tomorrow. I'll do that later. -.- Tired writer is tired.

Tune in next week to see if I hit my word count early or not!

If you can take some time want to see more up-to-date thoughts and information, please check out my Facebook Page, S.L. Lewis Writing, or my Tumblr, A Peek Into a Creative Mind. Or even my Twitter, S.L. Lewis (@SLStrailo). You can also check out my NaNoWriMo Account,Candy_Lips, and my matching CampNaNoWriMo Account, Candy_Lips.

I update all three on a near daily basis, at least on Twitter I do that more often then not, and my tumblr sometimes.

To watch me reach my word counts, look for #wordcountprodding. For Writer updates, look for either #amwriting or #amwriter, which are both used by others.

Camp National Novel Writing Month: Days 1 to 3, 2016

Today's Earworm: Bad Religions "Sorrow, Acoustic Version" or "Dearly Beloved Acoustic"
Today's Date: 4/1/2016 (April 4, 2016)

Warning: April 2nd was not kind to me. I do speak about a stomach that is not happy in the worst possible way. If you don't care for it, just skip the lighter purple text down there.

April 1:

Word Count:2,841

Total Word Count: 2,841

Thoughts for the Day:

12:02 AM
Fuck. My. Muses. If you will excuse the language, but really! Fuck my muses! It's a few minutes after midnight on April 1st, I'm kind of avoiding Facebook, I'm pretty much on my twitter profile page, and tumblr is non-existent since about 7 yesterday evening due to the differing time zones.

Yeah, I don't do April Fools okay? I had a friend really screw me over with a fake death thing once. And it made it hard to believe her when she told me about the true death of another friend.

But we're here to talk about how my oh so lovely muses have screwed me over this time.

I was thinking about working on Book 1 of my "Don't Look" Series, which is called "A Delicate Thread", when my muses decided to be utter pains in my ass.

They decided that I needed to write the entire frickin' back history of my story. So guess what I'm doing?

That's right. I'm writing "Threading the Needle" for my Camp! *headdesk* I'm hoping that it won't be to horribly long but it might turn out because there's a lot to go over. About 20 years worth of history actually.

Insert a big gusty sigh here yes?

And before you ask about the series, and why I'm naming them the way I am, the names are all connected to thread, yarn, twine, ect. What have you. It's just been that way through out the entire time that I started writing the series.

Book 0: Thread the Needle
Book 1: A Delicate Thread
Book 2: Spin Me a Yarn
Book 3: Twist the Twine (which is quite actually a part of the character's story)

So there.

Fuck. My. Muses. 

4:51 PM

I have no idea what I'm doing here. I got some words earlier, got it all done. Now I'm working on this story. I have a feeling that it's going to be interesting to get things done.

Here's hoping that I finish more words before the end of today.

8:25 PM

Well then! Got the word count down and out. Got a video out on my youtube video. Got a chapter on my story written, and now I'm going to go take a well deserved hot bath!

Tomorrow I'm going to work on another story that I need to get through before things happen. Insert a huffy sigh again.

For now, hugs and kisses. Good night all.

April 2:

Word Count: Nothing, see Thoughts for the Day for reasons

Total Word Count: 2,841

Thoughts for the Day:

So it is just after 9PM here in Arizona-land and I'm exhausted even though I just got up about two hours ago.

Today was just one long fucked up session. I was heading to bed for a nap before my friend came over to grab my ass for shopping when my body goes "You need the bathroom". I ended up communing with my trash and actually gagging a few times.

What was it?

It was a flare up of pain that was unfortunately added to by another issue that I now have medication to take care of, so no worries on that. My mom calls my friend and tells her that I can't make it today unfortunately.

An hour later, a very hot shower, unable to even sip at room temperature water without communing with the trash can just in case, and my mom calls for an ambulance. I get dressed, slowly since moving hurt like a bitch and sit on my mom's bed seeing as I was using her shower (seeing as she had a shower seat and a hose shower head going on). That was about as far as I got before my body rejected whatever I had eaten.

Which had been about an hour and a half before (lean pocket with a couple crush orange/grape twizzlers). 

They come in, listen to me reject my stomach contents three times in a row, and decide to just full on take me to the hospital.

I get there, get a room and take 30 minutes to lay a damn IV line. About ten minutes later (and finally getting blood drawn for the usual battery of tests), I have three new needle marks, an IV line, a fat bag of fluids to push, and a shot with pain killers and anti-nausea flowing into my system. It was nice to move without setting off a wave of level 10+ pain.

Around 12:30, 1, I'm finally getting out because I was so dehydrated that I needed the fattest IV bag that they can give you. It took about 20 minutes to get through half the bag, where usually it would take you about 40 minutes if they aren't pushing the fluids.

They weren't pushing the fluids. I just needed it like no one's business.

Anyways, I got out, called my cab, got home around 2:30. I ate some chicken soup (my mother is an awesome woman), laid down, and crashed until about 6 when my mom gave me my first round of pills. Got up about 7 with a sleep hangover. Took some more pain killers and ate.

I'm now about to crawl back into bed and curl up. I need sleep like nobodies business. And hopefully my stomach stops hating me randomly. I hate being sore after such things.

Hopefully I can get good words tomorrow.

April 3:

Word Count: 1,202

Total Word Count: 4,043

Thoughts for the Day:

5:55 PM

Ah, finally, I have gotten my writing done since I had some rather interesting thoughts about things in the last few hours that took me taking a hot bath to relax and think about.

But I got chapter 2 of Thread the Needle done.

So much rewrite to be done. *sighs*

Just after midnight on the 4th, and I didn't finish my chapter but I'll get it later. I need to get some sleep here to deal with tomorrow.

If you can take some time want to see more up-to-date thoughts and information, please check out my Facebook Page, S.L. Lewis Writing, or my Tumblr, A Peek Into a Creative Mind. Or even my Twitter, S.L. Lewis (@SLStrailo). You can also check out my NaNoWriMo Account, Candy_Lips, and my matching CampNaNoWriMo Account, Candy_Lips.

I update all three on a near daily basis, at least on Twitter I do that more often then not, and my tumblr sometimes.

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Bi-Weekly Writing Update 1

Today's Ear Worm: Kesha "Die Young"
Goes from January 1, 2016 to January 14, 2016
Weeks: 1 and 2

So what exactly is this? Well this is to keep me on tract and to give you an idea of the day to day life that I live in regards to my writing.

Mind you there are some things that I won't label in regards to what I'm writing but that's because I have another line of stuff that you won't be seeing any time soon.

Anyways, let's get down to it.

Week 1 kind of sucked for me.

But I did get some stuff done.

January 2: Wrote 1,181 words on book 1 of my "Hero's" series.
January 4: Edited a story and added 842 words.
January 7: Wrote 1,698 words on book 1 of my "Hero's" series.

Week 2 looked a little better.

January 9: Wrote 1,321 words on a story
January 10: Edited a chapter and added  words.
January 13: Edited chapter, added 152 words, Wrote 1,460 words on another story
January 14: Wrote 1,452 words on a story

So all together these last two weeks, I've gotten 8,746 new words and spent 4 days editing some chapters.

All together not bad. So here's hoping that next weeks round will treat me better yes?