writerly ways

[cornerofmadness]

I'm spending this writerly ways hoping I didn't just fuck up royally. I updated to Windows 10 on the main computer because I have it at work and on this lap top and it's a thousand times better than windows 8. that said, it's been stuck at 32% updated for two hours. Yikes. Cross your fingers for me.

I finally finished dragging everything out of and put back into that closet (which is still stuffed minus the 6 bags of crap I dragged into the recycler pile and three other bags of stories and a bag of magazines.

Those stories have me thinking about regrets. All those half done stories. All of the (save one) are non-erotica. All of them waiting for me to do something with them. Actually two are done. One Splinters of Silver and Cold Iron I've blown the dust off of and I've started slowly working on it. The other Until the Ice Breaks is part of a shared universe with evil_little_dog so it's not entirely mine to do with as I please.

So I have to decide what to do. Can I get back to any of these? Red Skies is another one with ELD. Beneath the Torn SKy I am in theory noodling with for my writers group but here are several others.

I can't even say if I had more time I'd finish things. My concentration is bad. I think I really need just to set time aside to play with things because other side I'll just piss about on the internet.

Do you have regrets about your writing? Is there something you wanted to do but haven't? Need some help with something?

Right now I'm regretting a community I belong to just a little. Usually I love it but I can't help but notice, I comment to everyone (it doesn't take long) and get like 4 back out of 30 in response...

p.s. took another hour to write this and my computer is still on 32% now i'm terrified something went wrong.

Comments

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

My husband's computer in Chicago updated itself to Windows 10 and I'm down here in SC, never having used it, so can't help him at all. The fact that he can still use it promises good things for the more tech-literate, for sure. Let us know how it goes for you. He also mentioned that it took all night, but his computer is old.

Oh, I have regrets. I have one complete draft that a lot of people have liked but needs reworking, and two more unfinished. I most am trying to struggle with my tendency to over-complicate the plot and sometimes it's better if I get away and come back to a story.

BTW I've read and liked "If Two of Them Are Dead." Happy to review--where is best for you?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

sadly my update failed. #1 reason for the error code I got was slow internet which is very true. Sigh. I might ask my IT dept if they'll hook it up there and let it update. I WANT Windows 10. I have 8 and it sucks. I have 10 at work and on the laptop and its leaps and bounds better.

I know how that overcomplicating things goes. My SF story could literally be a trilogy but I want it to be a duology. Driving me nuts. Setting things aside and going back later is something that does work for me here but then I sometimes forget about them obviously. Sounds like we need a support group.

Oh thanks. I'm glad you liked it. Goodreads and/or Amazon would be best. Thank you. I'm about a third of the way thru Dying Tide and I'm really enjoying it. My only problem is technical, this new tablet does NOT save your place on the pdf. I'm hoping that's because of something I did when I converted it and not how it's going to be with all the books I buy because it's annoying. If I go do something else on the tablet and come back it reopens on page one. Frustrating.

[tinhutlady.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. I have a few stories with good promise languishing. Half the time I wonder if I'm just bored with them because I already know the ending, or if I'm terrified to finish them because they won't turn out half as well as I'd like them to be. it's probably something else entirely, like a distracted brain...

You are the type of commentator I wish I was. As much as I try to give really good feedback, many times I hang back or am distracted by something else and then forget to tell a person just how much their work struck a chord with me, or missed the mark not because of lack of talent, but because they just need to slow down a bit, etc.

Here's hoping your update finally came to pass.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Oh I know those fears well. Or the one where you know the beginning and end and have no idea how to get thru the mushy middle.

And I wish I commented more to other people's fiction because I don't feel like I do a good job of that myself. I know I don't. Because I too am easily distracted.

sadly the update failed but luckily it restored itself to 8. Bah.

[tinhutlady.livejournal.com]

The doom of the mushy middle - know that one, too. LOL
Boo on the update fail. Sorry.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh those mushy middles how I hate them.

Yeah stupid technology

[scribesds.livejournal.com]

My husband installed Windows 10 and it took about six hours to download!


The only thing I regret about writing is not having enough time to do it. I do miss it, but I'm spending so much time making/posting/advertising for the shop I don't get a lot of extra time. I would like to arrange some writing time, possibly for fanworks but I do have some original stuff I want to get onto. Eventually...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah the desktop is in the shop so the techies can download it for me.

Time is always a factor. None of us seem to have enough of it and when we do get it, some of us are good at frittering it away. Ah well.

I've decided that 10-11 is going to be my writing time.