The trilogy of early Devan stories is finally complete 🙂
You can head on over to my Web Shorts page to check out Devan: Deflowered, and if you missed them, the previous two shorts in the series as well.
http://www.darkniciad.com/web-shorts
Hope you enjoy them, and I’m finally feeling some creativity again. I’ll probably post more about that later. It’s been a long couple of months. Ugh…
A week off to rest, finishing the last of the things that needed done with the new car, and coming back today to reduced hours ( should be back down to around 40-45 for a while ) has me in much better shape.
I have the last story of the Devan trilogy for the Web Shorts page back from editing, and I’ll be posting it soon. I’m going to try to finish my Earth Day story, even though the contest is closed to new entries, because it isn’t quite Earth Day yet. I really hated missing last year, and I’d like not to repeat that. I’d overcomplicated the story a little, which is what kept me from finishing it in time for the contest. Now that I’ve pared it down, I’m hoping I can get it done in time for Earth Day.
Naturally, I’m going to try to get the next chapter of SOTM moving again, and try to get frikkin’ Lowborn finished so I can post it after all this time.
I’m on vacation next week, and I’m going to try to get back on track. Even though my hours at work have dropped a little, the last month or so have seen an exponential increase in daily aggravation. So, every hour feels like two or three.
Ugh..
Anyway, with a week off, I hope to rejuvenate and try to get back to writing and working on the website.
I upgraded a lot of the underlying software today. Appears to have gone off without a hitch. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Have that first draft of Devan:Deflowered ready for editing. I’ve just been too tired and beat down to do it. Should be able to finish that and get it posted next week on the Web Shorts page.
Otherwise, my focus for the short term will be the next entry in the Magic of the Wood series. I really hated missing Earth Day last year, and I’d like to avoid repeating that.
Just finished the first draft of “Devan: Deflowered” for the Web Shorts page here on the website.
Also have about 2800 words written on “Friend of the Wood”, which I hope will be this year’s Earth Day story for the contest at Lit.
So, after my long zombie period, I’m finally getting some writing done. Going to chill out for a little bit, and then get back to the wood. I’ll let Devan sit for a day or two before I go in to do my first pass edit.
Got a new car over the weekend, checking one thing off the list that was eating up my time when I wasn’t at work. The money I’ll save on gas will probably offset the increased insurance payment. (’99 vs. ’12 ) Damn car was using a quarter tank a day near the end. The new one is getting somewhere around 35-38 mpg.
The money I’m not spending on constant repairs ( went extended warrenty to 100k ) will probably offset the car payments for a while :p Gas tank, radiator, heater core, wheel bearings, serpentine belt… it was something else failing every month or so for the last year or two. Not to mention four free oil changes plus discounted regular service of several types for quite a while on wear and tear typs stuff.
All in all, I may not even notice the added costs of the new car *laugh*
Not to mention that my hours are still up around that 50 per week range ( vs. an average of 34-40 for the last several years ) with no real end in sight. It looks like we probably are out of the weeks pushing 60 for a while, but that could change come summer.
I’m finally adjusting to the increased hours ( or where we are now is the limits of my endurance vs. where we’ve been for the last couple of months ) and feeling awake enough to do things once I get home from work ( such as typing this )
I wrote an opening for an Earth Day story in the Magic of the Wood series yesterday, though I think I’m probably going to start the story in a different place. Even if I completely scrap what I wrote, at least I wrote something *laugh* That’s vast progress compared to the recent past.
I’m alert and don’t feel like I’ve been run over a truck right now, so that’s a good thing. Probably going to start opening up some unfinished stories/chapters and see if anything is inspiring me.
