So yeah...It's been...um...a while.
Look, all I'm gonna say is that I've been going thru some wicked chit in my life, kids. And before you jump to conclusions, based on the various song-lyrics about broken relationships that I seem to be fond of posting on these pages, The Old Man and I are still together and doing well. We may be homeless after the end of October, but hey - we can live on love, right?
*crickets*
I joined the ranks of the unemployed since I last wrote here, you see, and while that comes as a surprise to nobody who has been paying attention and I am hardly alone in my newfound poverty, that knowledge ain't gonna pay my bills. And unlike that last time I was laid off from a job, there are not a bunch of people crawling all over themselves to hire my ass.
I am afraid. I am very afraid.
Well, I guess we can look at it this way (seeing as I am a glass-half-full kinda gal). The last time I took a month-long hiatus from this blog, somebody had tried to kill me.
And if you really, really need to read something I've written, feel free to check out some fan fiction I have been posting. Yes, I finally gave in to that baser desire I have been having and started doing it. It's actually been good for me in several ways:
1) I can fill the many, many hours which are no longer occupied earning a paycheck.
2) Catharsis and Escape, both of which have been needed in the past six weeks or so.
3) The whole fan fic business has been a learning tool for me, as a writer. For instance, I've been playing with different perspectives (such as first person/third person). I also write it and then post it. I don't spend days, weeks and months editing and re-writing as I have done with my "real" novel (which remains only 90% complete, although I have recently begun shopping it around). I liken the process to improv theater - the idea comes, I immediately regurgitate it and it's out there, for better or for worse. The whole fanfic community to me, personally, has little-to-nothing to do with Twilight. I look at it more as a supportive, online writer's workshop. We all just happen to have ripped off characters from the Twilight series. And, honestly? That don't mean shit to me (but shhhh...don't tell any of those Twilighters out there. They may kick me off of the sites...or have me tarred and feathered).
I know I went off in a previous post about "betas" and how I didn't understand exactly what they could do for me. While I understand the process now, I don't use one. I post at two sites - Twilighted and FanFiction.net. At the Twilighted site, my chapters have to go through a "validation" process before getting posted, which essentially just means that somebody looked it over to be sure there weren't any glaring errors or pornographic scenes including children before it hit the webs (and btw, the chick who validates my chapters for The Cocky and The Cougar takes like a week to do so, whereas the one who validates How to Write a Love Song apparently does so in like five minutes. I don't mind at all - I don't expect anybody to drop everything they're doing in order to validate my chapter. Plus, the delay kind of gives me extra time to work on the next chapter, ya know? I'm just putting that out there in case someone reading this may wonder why there is sometimes a delay between when they hear about a new chapter and when they're able to read it). On ff.net, there ain't no process. I post it and it magically appears.
So it's all me, babies. Raw and unformed. What you read on these sites is, for better or worse, entirely of my own creation, with no beta'ing. Except that I stole my character's names and some other minute details from Stephenie Meyer.
I like these stories. They're fun. I don't take them terribly seriously, but writing them helps keep my creative juices flowing and I absolutely adore hearing from people I've never met, once they've read a chapter. In the past month, those comments have offered me some of the very few smiles to be had around my place.
Sorry to be such a downer, but if you know me you know that I tend to drift toward depression...and insanity. That's why I tend to stay away from the blog at times such as these. You know, I'm supposed to be the fun aunt. I don't like to be a wet blanket.
So I shall return when I feel better, or I may just post here when I have updated my stories, or if I get obsessed with more song lyrics or whatever.
By the way - Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize while I was gone. I voted for the man and try to be as supportive as possible and even I am mystified.
The Cocky and The Cougar at Twilighted
and at ff.net
How to Write a Love Song at Twilighted
and at ff.net
Just a warning - my stuff, as you may well imagine, is not for youngsters. I mean, sure, there is a rating system at both of these sites...but I just don't want some 13 year-old stumbling upon my stuff and receiving a premature education courtesy of the ikss. I've already corrupted the majority of my nieces and nephews. I don't need to add stranger's children to the the pile.
Look, all I'm gonna say is that I've been going thru some wicked chit in my life, kids. And before you jump to conclusions, based on the various song-lyrics about broken relationships that I seem to be fond of posting on these pages, The Old Man and I are still together and doing well. We may be homeless after the end of October, but hey - we can live on love, right?
*crickets*
I joined the ranks of the unemployed since I last wrote here, you see, and while that comes as a surprise to nobody who has been paying attention and I am hardly alone in my newfound poverty, that knowledge ain't gonna pay my bills. And unlike that last time I was laid off from a job, there are not a bunch of people crawling all over themselves to hire my ass.
I am afraid. I am very afraid.
Well, I guess we can look at it this way (seeing as I am a glass-half-full kinda gal). The last time I took a month-long hiatus from this blog, somebody had tried to kill me.
And if you really, really need to read something I've written, feel free to check out some fan fiction I have been posting. Yes, I finally gave in to that baser desire I have been having and started doing it. It's actually been good for me in several ways:
1) I can fill the many, many hours which are no longer occupied earning a paycheck.
2) Catharsis and Escape, both of which have been needed in the past six weeks or so.
3) The whole fan fic business has been a learning tool for me, as a writer. For instance, I've been playing with different perspectives (such as first person/third person). I also write it and then post it. I don't spend days, weeks and months editing and re-writing as I have done with my "real" novel (which remains only 90% complete, although I have recently begun shopping it around). I liken the process to improv theater - the idea comes, I immediately regurgitate it and it's out there, for better or for worse. The whole fanfic community to me, personally, has little-to-nothing to do with Twilight. I look at it more as a supportive, online writer's workshop. We all just happen to have ripped off characters from the Twilight series. And, honestly? That don't mean shit to me (but shhhh...don't tell any of those Twilighters out there. They may kick me off of the sites...or have me tarred and feathered).
I know I went off in a previous post about "betas" and how I didn't understand exactly what they could do for me. While I understand the process now, I don't use one. I post at two sites - Twilighted and FanFiction.net. At the Twilighted site, my chapters have to go through a "validation" process before getting posted, which essentially just means that somebody looked it over to be sure there weren't any glaring errors or pornographic scenes including children before it hit the webs (and btw, the chick who validates my chapters for The Cocky and The Cougar takes like a week to do so, whereas the one who validates How to Write a Love Song apparently does so in like five minutes. I don't mind at all - I don't expect anybody to drop everything they're doing in order to validate my chapter. Plus, the delay kind of gives me extra time to work on the next chapter, ya know? I'm just putting that out there in case someone reading this may wonder why there is sometimes a delay between when they hear about a new chapter and when they're able to read it). On ff.net, there ain't no process. I post it and it magically appears.
So it's all me, babies. Raw and unformed. What you read on these sites is, for better or worse, entirely of my own creation, with no beta'ing. Except that I stole my character's names and some other minute details from Stephenie Meyer.
I like these stories. They're fun. I don't take them terribly seriously, but writing them helps keep my creative juices flowing and I absolutely adore hearing from people I've never met, once they've read a chapter. In the past month, those comments have offered me some of the very few smiles to be had around my place.
Sorry to be such a downer, but if you know me you know that I tend to drift toward depression...and insanity. That's why I tend to stay away from the blog at times such as these. You know, I'm supposed to be the fun aunt. I don't like to be a wet blanket.
So I shall return when I feel better, or I may just post here when I have updated my stories, or if I get obsessed with more song lyrics or whatever.
By the way - Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize while I was gone. I voted for the man and try to be as supportive as possible and even I am mystified.
The Cocky and The Cougar at Twilighted
and at ff.net
How to Write a Love Song at Twilighted
and at ff.net
Just a warning - my stuff, as you may well imagine, is not for youngsters. I mean, sure, there is a rating system at both of these sites...but I just don't want some 13 year-old stumbling upon my stuff and receiving a premature education courtesy of the ikss. I've already corrupted the majority of my nieces and nephews. I don't need to add stranger's children to the the pile.
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