December 2009 Archives

I started working on one of the WIPs that's been sitting around for a couple years.

Muse-directed writing has its ups and downs. I just ended up with a huge climactic Plot Device that will send concussions through the remainder of the WIPs left to finish the Big Damn Series(tm). Also, it will make a 110 page story into another novel.

Damn you, Muse. Why the Christmas present? You could have done this before I started seeing job ads for things I stand a chance at interviewing for....

But this is going to be a better story for it, if I can continue to do ten pages a day I might get it done before I'm employed. And the Janeway of the C&C universe will get to save the day, if I can only figure out how to write myself out of the nice boggling corner I'm in.

And a happy new year!

Here's some yowling Christmas kitties in case you haven't already tolerated a zillion cute email forwards.

merry xmas

One of the fantastic things about being unemployed (if there is anything at all fantastic about it) is the ability to randomly decide what you're doing is no longer important and do something else. So I'm blogging instead of going through another box.

Still working through stuff to get rid of/sell after the move a couple months back.... because I'm suddenly writing again. Not suddenly, really, because it's been in the head for a while that this or that story might be resolved this way, or that way... but actually getting down to the typing has been a slow process.

And then I discovered my oft-neglected website was missing a bunch of stuff. I found things on the archive at BLTS that weren't posted on my own site - go figure. And then Wordpress decided to not allow me to cut and paste, and given my tendency to write novels where vignettes will do...

Four days straight of formatting and things are looking pretty good on Movable Type. I can't say I'll miss Wordpress at all. I have most of the fiction formatted (still working on the shorter stuff but That Series is done). In the background as I edit and paste I've been watching DS9 and Lost.

OMG, Lost had so much potential. If only they had stopped adding craziness to it. It's like a little kid had control over the show, going "wouldn't it be cool if! and then!" - they just kept piling in one crazy explanation after another until it was just one great big ball of WTF. I keep waiting for someone to wake up in the shower and realize it was all Hurley's bad pizza induced dream.

In other news... I moved into a room rental from an apartment and my cat is now adjusting slowly to... dogs.

Wordpress was driving me crazy with the randomness... for some reason it was disappearing things from the fic blog, and not letting me edit anything. I finally got tired of the horrible formatting and lack of ability to control it.

Movable Type it is.

Should be an RSS feed around here somewhere, if you're interested.... I know I don't update often, but recent upswing in interest.... So I may be slowly working back into writing again.