Secret of the Wood Live

My Earth Day Contest story at Lit is up!

Secret of the Wood

NSFW! -> Cover Image

Go give it a read and a vote! I’ll take this opportunity, as I do in the end notes of the story, to say only vote once. Don’t stuff the ballot box 🙂 Those extra votes just get swept away anyhow.

On the same token, don’t try any shenanigans of down-voting other people’s stories to give mine a better chance. But do read and vote honestly on as many stories as you can. It’s hard to make it to the 25 votes to qualify sometimes, especially for a newcomer.

I’ll post this at SOL in a couple of days, after it’s had some exclusivity time at Lit in deference to the contest.

Still run down, but…

Still feel like hell, but I’m pushing onward. Just installed a new version of Wordperfect, and it’s making my life much easier. The version I was using was programed for XP, and it was slow as hell on Win 7. The new version runs faster than the old version did on the system it was designed for.

Struggling with Amber. The scene is flowing, but it almost feels like it’s too long. This is one of the main scenes that the whole story concept was built around, but I think I’m going to have to find a way to compress it some. It’s going to be as long or longer than the whole rest of the story, and that makes it feel as if it’s dragging.

Have the beginning of another story in my third pen name going, just because I needed a little something to break out with. It’s still lowest priority on my list, but I needed the change of pace, and that tale provided it.

Second draft review for Secret of the Wood should be back sometime this weekend. As long as there aren’t any major problems, it should be off for final editing with Roust shortly thereafter, and ready to go into the contest shortly after the opening bell on the 28th.

Working on SOTM 17 in the other window right now on the new, faster WP. Let’s see how much I can get done before the night’s over 🙂

Well, know what it was

I know why I was so tired and blah the other day. I’m down with a cold that’s kicking my ass. Still trying to write a bit, but it’s going to be slow until I can breathe again and stay awake.

*chuckle* Since I set up the new spam prevention, I’ve only had one spam pop up on the blog. They’re starting to try new tricks that I’ve already taken steps to prevent, though.

BTW: I have it set up to approve comments from new users, so the first time you make a comment, it won’t go up until I see it and approve it. Thereafter, your comments should post without waiting.

You never know

Didn’t feel like working on Amber tonight, so I worked on SOTM a little bit more instead. Got the next scene rolling, and I’m a quick magical flight away from an action scene now. The biggest part of this chapter is going to be all Marlena and Danica, venturing into a land in my world that I haven’t explored thusfar.

We’ll see what I feel like putting a few paragraphs on in the morning *laugh* That’s the biggest problem with my overall production right now. I’m not just pounding out chapters/stories in a few sittings. There are always several stories moving along all at the same time. When something gets done, it will post. But until then, I just have wordcount building up, waiting for conclusions.

Does sort of lead toward floods of releases, though. Just wish that they weren’t so far apart.

Yeah, took a day off

Just didn’t feel like writing yesterday. Didn’t feel like doing anything, really. I was tired and blah all day long.

Woke up this morning and jumped right into Amber. The scene is flowing finally, so maybe I can finish the dadgum thing *laugh*

Going to work on the final bit of adding imagery to Secret tonight so I can get it off for an impression of the second draft.

Odds are that I’ll put together a brief synopsis of another story at some point tonight too. I’ve had a general thing floating around in my head for a while, but it really coalesced today at work. It’s essentially taking the Alice Cooper album “Trash” and making a story out of it *laugh* I’ll probably just call this one “Alice” when I mention it, but I think the title is actually set in stone in my head. This one will be Les Lumens.

Always adding bits to SOTM along the way. Once I clear the plate of Secret ( because of the contest ) and Amber ( because it’s so close to done ) It’s going back on primary. That is, if I don’t have a massive flash of inspiration and do that beforehand, as I’ve done a time or two recently.