Monthly Archives: March 2010

Almost done editing Secret

I finally waded into the labyrinth of the back room and located my Word install discs.  I’ve always used Word for grammar/spell checks, even though I write in Wordperfect.  I just don’t like that checker in WP, and giving it a shot today reminded me of why *laugh*

With Word installed again, I did that grammar sniff, and I’m in position for one last cold read before sending it off for first-reads.

Think I’ve been away from Lowborn long enough to give it a cold read now.  I’ll probably do a little tweaking, but I’m just not quite awake enough to call this a full imagery pass.  I’m just going to change the font size/face and look for things jumping out at me that I miss in my normal writing font.

Might write a bit on Amber tonight, but we’ll see.  The young one went lights-out early, and I hate to stay up too late, because he’ll have me up too early in the day, and I’ll have zero chance of being able to close my eyes and visualize later on :p

Steadily getting all my tools and files together, and building up some word count.  Not on a major binge like I was around Halloween, but I’ll take what I can get.  Forward progress at more than a snail’s pace is a positive boon compared to what I’ve been dealing with.

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Started that silly story

Didn’t feel like doing any more editing tonight, so I started that silly little story that I’ve mentioned before.  I’m just going to refer to it as “Amber” for now.

This story will go in Sci-Fi/Fantasy as Les, and it’s a heck of a lot different from most of my writing set in the ‘real world’.  Promiscuity and girl-on-girl fun will abound, but Amber and Rachel aren’t going to go without male companionship, either.

This one’s going to be fun.

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Imagery pass complete on Secret

Just finished the imagery pass on Secret.  Just the grammar/spelling grind left before I send it out for first reads.

I’ll probably work on something else tonight, though.  Not sure whether that will be editing on Lowborn, or working on one of the other focus strories in progress.  I’ll figure it out in a bit.

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Bit of a blah day

I was actually going to write tonight, but I’m just not feeling it.

I’m working on the next pass through Secret, though I think I’m only going to get about halfway there before I crash.  This is the painting the scenery pass, bringing the world into focus around my characters.  The birds singing, the wind blowing, the green of the leaves, pine needles crunching underfoot…

You get the picture 😉

We’ll see how far I make it.  Who knows, I might have a final burst of energy before I drop off.

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181 cans of spam on the wall…

That’s what I woke up to this morning — 181 spam comments to the blog *laugh*

Somebody working overtime at wasting his/her time.  And here I thought that the twenty-some-odd the other day was giggle-worthy.

I suspect that it could be a feeble attempt at an attack by the trifecta of delusion at Lit: bostonfictionwriter, scouries, and sarahhh, as at least one of them has made a threat to contact the ‘multitudes of fans’ recently to get even with me for calling her out on lies.

My apologies if you like their stories, but I have nothing positive to say about any of those three, their alts, and syncophants.  People who do their best to belittle anyone ( who isn’t them ) that has won a contest at Lit, post blatantly racist, anti-woman attacks against anyone who doesn’t worship them, claim to have been in a threesome with a married author who has real talent just to ride her coattails, and mock a grieving mother whose only crime was to share the pain of a stillbirth with her friends on the forum don’t deserve anything but scorn.

All you need is one browse through that thread for ‘serious scholars’ on the story feedback forum at Lit to see that bunch’s true colors.  And no, I don’t recommend reading it in any way, shape, or form.

If such is the case, and one or more of you is looking in to see your handiwork.  Two words:  Epic Fail. 🙂

We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog, already in progress, always spam-free, and now regularly updated!

What’s the point of a blog if I can’t just babble once in a while?  *laugh*

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