No, no, no. Writing is staring at a blank doc/blog entry/etc. and having ideas that you can't shape yet. Total absence of them is want-to-find-something-smashable-and-smash-it territory.
Why is it *my* fault you are technologically impaired??
Helloooo guys.
I got divebombed by a hummingbird! Refilling the feeder requires standing in a high-traffic area, lol. Tore a huge hole in my hood, but neither s/he nor I came away with any injuries.
Well, I bet there was some injured pride for the bird.
And guess who finally spat out that damn salivary gland stone? Score! Now I can quit eating lemons whole. If anyone needs me, I'll be in the snatch patch "celebrating".
Finally got my competition results back. I didn't win anything. Boo. What's worse is. I skimmed through the winning entries, and I reckon mine was better. Huh!
Where'd everyone go?
I'm gardening, including the harvest and devouring of sugar snaps and black raspberries.
Because you are excluding my iPhone culture!
Oooof. Finished an editing pass. One more to go before I can go back to my own work for a bit. Still haven't quite finished the PNR.
Though, I'm stuck with an issue. I originally wrote the PRN (it's m/m erotic, specifically) targeting a certain epub. Lately, there's been some rumblings about payment issues with said epub, though they've had a very good rep in the past, make decent sales, etc. I also personally know three editors there.
But I'm wondering if I shouldn't send it out to several epubs that handle such works, just to see what happens.
eghapffpt.
After I polish that, I'm revisiting the high fantasy manuscript that's been done but resting for a good editing pass. I may need a beta after that. But at my rate, that'll be in the fall.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholding-editor.
I was swallowed by a four hour meeting.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholding-editor.
Perhaps I should send them new glasses. Well, never mind. I submitted it elsewhere instead. I'm still slightly peeved though.
Morning, Kricket and Wee Little Kricket.
You're peeved because you believe in your work. That's a good thing, believe it or not.
Sorry I've been lost for a while. Cat bites on fingers aren't fun! My Lucky cat is alive and well. The daggers due to the pill dropped down the throat continue, but they are lessening because we're down to a half pill a day. (yeah...)
On the writing front, I got my latest rejection... From which another editor missed the point of a story. ("The ending fell flat.") After 15 rejections, I'm debating trunking the story. One last place to send it, but I can't before September.
Sigh. So I had this terrific idea, write a little (like 40K) PNR under a new pen name, and use it as an experimental entry into the indie publishing gig, get my feet wet and see how well it went.
Problem: the story is getting complicated. If I want to do it right, it's going to require a couple weeks just of world building and character design. There's a multi-part story arc germinating, like a weed, in my imagination. It wants to get big and complex and really fricking cool.
But I only wanted it to be a little experiment. So what do I do? Pull up those lovely, lovely weeds and stick to the little story idea I originally had? Try something new, and save this cool idea for later? Or start cultivating, and let the story grow where it will?