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What a day…

Come home to find two wonderful surprises today. My contest story as Les earned me my first erroneous age rejection. Resubmitted with an eyeroll, hoping it might come out at midnight by some stroke of luck. If it doesn’t make it out until 6 am or later… Ugh…

On top of that, my latest over at SOL is sputtering, which has become a trend. The same story is performing like gangbusters at Lit.

To be honest, pushing the submit button at SOL is beginning to feel like tossing words into the void. If the trend continues, I’m leaning more and more toward not wasting the effort. The numbers have been steadily descending for a while, and the feedback is almost non-existant, even when a story does reasonably well.

We’ll see how Stocking Stuffer does there after it’s had over the weekend at Lit. If a hotbutton fetish like that tanks… One more nail in the coffin.

That’s assuming it does as well as I’m expecting at Lit.

Even if I decide to close up shop at SOL, I’ll finish SOTM there. Other new stories may not get posted, though. That includes new stories in series like Magic of the Wood, since they’re all self-contained. Just thought I’d put out a heads up.

Off tomorrow. The Thanksgiving rush seems to be tapering off, so I’m hoping for a lighter week next week after my three day weekend. Maybe I’ll be back in a mental state capable of writing again. This has just been a bad week.

I’m going to vegetate for a little while, see if the young one will wind down, and maybe give a shot at writing, since this was a much slower day, and I already know I can get some sleep during the day tomorrow. Less pressure to force myself to go to bed.

Frikkin’ Work…

I purposely took Black Friday off because it’s a hell day. Word is that it was indeed, but the problem is that the hell continues. Double our recent average workload on Monday, about half again more than usual today, and tomorrow is supposed to be worse.

So much for catching up on my sleep with the long weekend… Grrr…

Needless to say, I’m not doing much once I finally do get back from the suburb of hell that is my cruel and unusual employment *laugh*

I’m using the time when I’m not running a mile a minute to muse. It’s cold enough now to put my hood up and my headphones on, so having tunes ( Game music with no lyrics mostly ) helps with that, along with keeping me from losing my mind.

I have that beginning I mentioned locked in, and part of the scene fleshed out right down to wording. I’m writing it in my head when I’ve got time so I can just type it out when I’m finally feeling awake enough to write it.

I think I’m going to take advantage of what I’ve taught myself to fix that annoying error on the front page with the “What’s New” section. Something changed a while back, and the default feed from the blog no longer contains dates. The code that displays it on the front page defaults to the last cache time, always showing posts as “today”

Changing to the advanced 2.0 rss feed causes the code to choke and display nothing.

So, I’m going to ditch the out-of-the-box feed code and write my own, using what I’ve learned in the process of planning an automated Lit contest tracking program. It will be even easier than the tracking program, because feeds are designed to be read by machines, with handy tags built right into the generated html.

Of course, that too will have to wait until work isn’t trying to kill me :p

Now, I need to try to get the young one in bed so I can try to get more sleep tonight. I felt frikkin’ horrible all day the last two days. On top of how bad it actually is, I wasn’t remotely expecting it, and that makes it twice as bad.

More SOTM and Holiday Contest

Working on the next scene of SOTM. Just trying to figure out where I want to start it.

I had a couple of ideas in my third name that demanded writing for the Holiday Contest, so they took up a little time. One of them is done, and the other probably won’t take long. I’m paused on the second for the time being while I work on SOTM, because I’m not in the right frame of mind to write sex, which is what comprises the bulk of my 3rd name stories.

My Holiday story as Les should be coming out on Thursday. Naturally I’ll appreciate your read and vote, but don’t forget that it’s a taboo story!

Putting together the next coding step for the website in my head as well. For now, I have enough creative juices flowing to keep me writing, so I’m not going to mess with the website until I hit a bit of a slow point. Switching gears before I bog down too much helps keep me on an even keel and gets me back to writing more quickly. The next step is the sidebar, which is critical to making the next set of content additions reasonably navigable.

Moving along

Got some sleep today, and accomplished a couple of other things I’ve been meaning to do for a while. More or less just waiting to see if the young one is going to go to bed at a decent time, giving me an hour or so to write on SOTM tonight without distractions. He typically is a little slow and quiet when he first gets up too, so if I don’t stay up too late, I’ll have time in the morning before he gets too rowdy to write a little more.

Accomplishing a few things ( even if they weren’t writing related ) takes a lot of weight off my shoulders. That can only be a positive thing when I “pick up my pen” again later 🙂

Closer, but…

Work and the young one conspiring against me. On top of the Thanksgiving rush, we’ve got bigwigs coming in around the holiday, which means an orgy of cleaning and painting the whole bloody place. Long days doing meaningless ( more than usual ) work is bad for the creative juices, and the energy.

Top that off with the boy not wanting to go to bed, and there you have it.

I did get the scene order down and figured out the transition from the scene I finished, though. I still don’t think I’m in the frame of mind to move forward. I’m seriously considering a quick read of what I’ve written, doing some of the tweaks I usually do during the editing process. I tend to add a lot of the color to the world while I’m editing, so I could go back and get some of that done, to keep me from losing the drive.

The good news is that tomorrow is the last day of work before a 4 day weekend, which should help alleviate the issues vexing me at the moment.

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