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I've already announced the big news about sending out another story.

I've already whined a bit about what to do with that old vampire story. The more I look the more I'm not sure I CAN pull New Orleans out of it and yet I have too. It's cliched beyond belief and it would embarrass me at this point to keep it (unlike nearly 20 years ago when I wrote it)

I just have to get into the mind set that about the ONLY thing I'm keeping is the scenario and it's not a bad thing. It IS very old and I'm better now. This story can be better.

Of course right now I'm not feeling 'better.' I'm feeling like my characters are all flat and dull and I have the descriptive ability of a 5 year old.

But on a better note I DID promise to put up a character sheet. Back in the days of paper zine fandom you just didn't write and shove it out there you belonged to a group. Writing was highly interactive especially since Elfquest and Pern (back in the days when McCaffery wouldn't SUE you) didn't allow you to use any canon characters. You got to invent your very own and worked with others in the group to use their characters. It was interesting and fun BUT how was anyone to keep track of 100 characters and what they looked like. Character Information Sheets was how. I STILL use them today for stories. It's handy especially if your character has scars and tatts and you have the memory of a sieve and are sitting there is that scar on his left cheek or his right. (think you can't mess this up, I've seen in professional print!)

So here's James Whirlwind Soldier (the first one I found on my hard drive when I went to look) He was invented for The Cauldron a shared world started by evil_little_dog

( Meet James )

I wrote over 8,600 words of original fiction this week.

83988 / 100000 words. 84% done!

Writerly Ways redux

So I was cleaning the living room and rooting through a box yanked out of gram's basement last I was there. I found a sheath of hand written notes. It took me a while to decipher them since they're in my pre-injury handwriting (which was still an illegible doctor's scrawl) and half in medical shorthand.

I realized that what they were was from my WI writers group in 98-99 where we got together and gave each other critiques verbally. Every last one said the same thing 'too much description'

I guess between the by mail writers group of 95-97 and then this, I had learned a lesson. I describe too much.

Now, I don't do it at all. From one extreme to the other. At this point I think it's a psychological block. four to five years of being stuck with budding Hemmingway minimalists (seriously one of them quotes Hemmingway all the time to me), did damage.

Wonders if there's hypnotherapy for writing trauma?

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House is half clean

the kitchen was way scarier than I realized and now I feel a little grossed out.

Cleaned out the car in prepartion for selling. Today was another dog day. In under 15 minutes I cam out of the car looking like my hair was freshly from the shower it was so wet with sweat. And in spite of ALL the rain we've had in this hot weekend ALL my plants were utterly wrecked and limp. Watered the blue blazes out of them.


Happy Things - two things that actually happened yesterday

1)because of the pleasant cooler summer my electric bill is like dead cheap.

2) when i went to throw out my glass recyclables someone had thrown out five glasses vases. I NEEDED a vase. I took the three prettiest. I haven't been dumpster diving in a while

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