Catching Up

Writing has still been relatively sparse. Have had a great time doing a lot of fun stuff with the kids though, so it evens out. Took the kids up to Racoon State Park on Monday and had an awesome day at the beach there. Doing all kinds of fun stuff like that.

On to the great news: Found a job! Starting with Ariba on August 9th. Really looking forward to getting started as a Data Manager. It seems like it will be a great place to work and a good challenge for me every day.

And now a funny side note. In Dragon Lords, I had named the MC Daernol. I was never really happy with it, but figured I would just use it until I found something and then do a massive find and replace. Well, I found that name, Tirnan. I like it a lot more. A variation on a celtic name. The funny thing is that I have done so much work on my ipod touch that when I am typing just on the touch, my brain does some kind of weird loop and puts Daernol back in. It's weird. I don't do it on my laptop, just when writing on my touch.

Well, the kids are playing quietly in their room, Jenn is off getting her hair done and stuff, so I am going to see how much more writing I can get done.

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.

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!

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.

Organized - Mostly

OK. My three notebooks are now an array of brightly colored coded post-it notes.

Orange for Novel related items.

Neon Green for not needed items.

Pink for short story items.

Kinda dissapointed I didn't end up using the blue post-its too.

So, a bit of typing and I can be back on track. I found the missing novel parts that I was looking for the other day. I really thought I had already typed that stuff up, but apparently not. Fortunately, it is all in one notebook. That's good because once I get it down to just this one notebook, that's all I'm working on until I'm done. (well, except for the occasional short story that pops up here and there.)

If you're interested, Flogging Molly makes for awesome organizational music. Or maybe it's just awesome music.

Now to get some typing done before Alex gets up from his nap.

Too Much

I have too much.

I have several different versions of documents (draft 1, draft 2, draft 3 starts after the party that is in the blue notebook), text files, abiword documents. Somethings are saved privately on livejournal.

Some of is written out in a notebook. Some of that is even typed on pages that were printed out and stuck in the middle of my notebook at what is likely their corresponding spots.

Man what a mess. I have three novels in various states. One, some portion through it. A second, this conjumbled mess of things everywhere. A third that is mostly outline notes only in my notebook. Probably some printed pages to go with that.

That's just novels. I'm not even sure I want to look into the short story folders. Though fortunately all short story stuff is typed up. None of that floating around notebooks. Can thank Liberty Hall for that, they're responsible for the bulk of my short story work, and it's all be done at a PC.

It's driving me nuts. I need to organize this all, somehow.