What I wouldn't give for a weekend alone just to write! I almost got it this weekend but...I'm not even going to think about it lest I board the anxiety roller-coaster again. My mind is bursting with ideas and that's not even including my WIPs.
I am so proud of myself for actually making progress on my original WIP The Mythical Male. I am very hard on myself in the self-editing process so it's not an easy task for me. I have added a bit to my back-burner story called Princess Knights and further developed both characters and setting for a potential children's series called Psionic Squad.
My other mini-project stems from a solution to a problem that more or less started my interest in writing. I've always loved television and movies and I would go to sleep at night putting the characters into different scenarios and making my own plots, often skewing the characters completely. Well I have some great fan-fiction plots in my head, but many of them involve uncharacteristic behavior and everything is copyrighted anyway.
Well, a little birdie told me that the book Fifty Shades of Grey was originally a fan-fiction for Twilight, The author just changed the characters and the setting a bit and published a whole new series. Why can't I do something like that?
So I adjusted the characters a bit, combined a couple into one person, and have yet to set up a setting, but my plots will work. Are the plots any good? Only time will tell. I have a blurb about each of books in the series, but that's not even on the back burner yet. I'd say the ingredients are on the counter.
So if you have been wondering where I've been (besides the usual work, more work, relationships, ect.) that's what I've been working on. I hope all my writing friends are doing well and making more progress than I have, but I'm finding my pace. Happy writing everyone!
July 6, 2013
May 9, 2013
Sneaky Stress
Ah, the internet. The perfect place to get something off my chest. Warning: Foul Language in this post.
Have you ever NOT realized you were stressed? I mean yeah, there's a lot on your plate and and you've been over worked and under-slept but you can handle... WHO THE F*** LEFT THIS OPEN?!?!
It happens just like that. You know there are issues, but it's all fine and dandy until one little thing goes wrong and then you flip. You had no idea you were so stressed out and then suddenly you're giving the world the finger.
In the past year I have only used my vacation time for sick leave and bereavement leave. Due to short staffing issues I haven't been able to get a vacation. Finally I got it. Two weekdays and a weekend where I can do anything I want. Well, I have some catching up to do on the most important project of the year, I need to write thank you letters for the gifts I just got, but I should have plenty of time to just sit at my laptop and work on my writing. Right?
My power cord chose this day to break. To say that I lost it is putting it lightly. First I get a "fits-all-models" replacement from the electronics store. It barely works. I go to order a replacement part online with what battery life I have left and something doesn't go right and I online chat for support. I'm about to complete my purchase by clicking a link in the chat and....it's not compatible with Mozilla. I finagle it to work in IE and then there's some sort of registration and I ask for help with my chat person and they mysteriously disappear. The session times out and I'm asked for feedback. Of course at this point I just want to tell them to go [expletive] themselves. But I honestly rate the support team as knowledgeable and my experience as lousy, but the comment box for "How can we improve?" is smaller than my pinky finger.
This computer fiasco was just the final straw in a day full of things going wrong on my glorious day of vacation. So if anyone asks how my vacation is going, I can't be held accountable for whatever comes out of my mouth.
I know this is probably some of my worst quality writing but it feels so good to get it off my chest.
Have you ever NOT realized you were stressed? I mean yeah, there's a lot on your plate and and you've been over worked and under-slept but you can handle... WHO THE F*** LEFT THIS OPEN?!?!
It happens just like that. You know there are issues, but it's all fine and dandy until one little thing goes wrong and then you flip. You had no idea you were so stressed out and then suddenly you're giving the world the finger.
In the past year I have only used my vacation time for sick leave and bereavement leave. Due to short staffing issues I haven't been able to get a vacation. Finally I got it. Two weekdays and a weekend where I can do anything I want. Well, I have some catching up to do on the most important project of the year, I need to write thank you letters for the gifts I just got, but I should have plenty of time to just sit at my laptop and work on my writing. Right?
My power cord chose this day to break. To say that I lost it is putting it lightly. First I get a "fits-all-models" replacement from the electronics store. It barely works. I go to order a replacement part online with what battery life I have left and something doesn't go right and I online chat for support. I'm about to complete my purchase by clicking a link in the chat and....it's not compatible with Mozilla. I finagle it to work in IE and then there's some sort of registration and I ask for help with my chat person and they mysteriously disappear. The session times out and I'm asked for feedback. Of course at this point I just want to tell them to go [expletive] themselves. But I honestly rate the support team as knowledgeable and my experience as lousy, but the comment box for "How can we improve?" is smaller than my pinky finger.
This computer fiasco was just the final straw in a day full of things going wrong on my glorious day of vacation. So if anyone asks how my vacation is going, I can't be held accountable for whatever comes out of my mouth.
I know this is probably some of my worst quality writing but it feels so good to get it off my chest.
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