I'll see you when I come up for air...

Writing.

testing this out from igoogle

I had tried igoogle before, but not really played with it. It is really slick. With one window I can check gmail, google reader, facebook, livejournal, and twitter. And update my blogspot blog. So far, I'm pretty happy with it.

Bingo Story

Well, it was rejected at the first spot. Sent it to Strange Horizons now. Who knows what will happen. On the plus side of things, I didn't write about anything they said they'd seen too much of.

Spam Poetry

This poem brought to you courtesy of my spam email subjects. Enjoy!

Come check boobs
The air around you will smell like love.
Who was he?
Horrible news from the white house
Medications that you need.

I have no doubt more poetry will surface in the future.

Small Update

Just a small update here.

I haven't in general made time for updating this lately. Time being finite and all. And wanting to have something worth saying, not just filler. Suppose though that this post counts as filler. I have some writing related posts I want to make, but as I am a relative nobody in the writing field at this point, I doubt that stuff would get read too much anyway.

I guess the bottom line is that the writing is important, all else is secondary. Until I've "Made It" (TM) all of this stuff is secondary.

I've been working on the midsommer madness over at liberty hall, but at my own pace. I don't know what made me think I'd be able to keep up with their schedule, that lasted about a week. But the projects Mike created for it have been great. I'm just a bit farther behind than the rest. Still working on it Mike!

My wife got me an awesome hand crafted pen for father's day. The middle of the pen is made of wood. It's pictured above. It writes wonderfully. Of course, without me to use it, it serves little purpose. That leads to the obvious conclusion. I must write.

It's funny, but something so little as writing down the date next to my current writing has prompted me to keep at it lately. Having the date there as made me 1) not want to miss a day and 2) want to write at least as much as I did the day previous.

Should mention that the current project is tentatively titled the Dragon Lords. Or it will have another title and be "A Dragon Lords Novel". The bingo story wasn't as done as I'd thought. But now it truly is done, conclusion and all. Need a final read through then I'm sending it out to the wider world.

Thanks to Joshua over at Blue Ink Alchemy for inadvertently prompting this post.

Bingo Story - Done

Well, re-writes are done. Need to do a pass or two of edits. Get a ride from a cop friend of mine to check out his car and run some stuff by him. Then this story is out the door. I'm liking it a lot better this time. The ending feels right. Hopefully editors agree. I'll keep you posted.

Comments Working

Something about being embedded below the post was messing it up. But it's working now. Happy commenting!

Caught Up

Well, I'm caught up from the notebooks. Everything is digial now. What a relief. The process was good to get me refreshed on where I was at in the novel too. It's not world class writing, but it's there, and I can work with it.

I'm tired. Currently nursing a diet pepsi. Will be a coffee night tonight. Anyone have a time travel device so that I can do what I currently do and get eight hours of sleep?

So my to-do list is as it stands:

• Novel - at least I know where I need to go with it for the immediate future.
• Edit Bingo story - figured out what I need the end to be, for a more satisfying conclusion. Sub that.
• edit pre-quel short stories or complete them. predates events that are happening in novel. Probably a total of three stories. Then sub them.
• short story cycle - i still want to finish this. probably the longest of my short projects.

Kurt mentioned he was having problems commenting. So if you're reading here, please try and comment. Or let me know if it doesn't work. Thanks!

The box, it's over there --->

I was thinking that this wasn't very flexible. Blogger that is. But then I was playing with the format a bit and low and behold, I have a links section at the top now that I can use to link to specific pages. I want have some free fiction up there that is easy to find. Now I just have to find some stuff I want to post there.

Wow, I did this?

Getting stuff typed up... looking back at this old writing, it's from October 2007.

Part of me wonders if there is even a point to typing it up. It's pretty old, I don't even know if I'd use it anymore. But I feel the need to do so. Getting on my PC. The character I was writing about is near and dear to me. He'll make it into a book at some point.

The other part of me is thinking wow, my writing has improved quite a bit since I put this down on paper. So that's good at least. A little ego boost never hurt anyone. OK, back to typing.