Writerly Ways

I thought I'd have nothing to say given how horrible this week was but actually I knocked down 3732 words of new original fiction plus who knows what in fanfiction. I finally wrestled a new beginning onto that old vampire thing. It's up on my original fiction filter for input if you'd like. Right now I'm actually kicking butt on the werewolf YA. 10K more and it'll officially be novel length so i need to start thinking about wrapping it up and moving toward a conclusion.

I've even edited some original fiction for others. Hope to get to mjules new novel tonight and did some for my friend's steampunk romance which is rather humorous and has enough of the steam in it to make me forget I'm reading romance (not always my favorite genre without add-in's like the supernatural or mystery or something more in my field). So I guess I'm accomplishing stuff.

Now that I'm back in touch with my German friend we're chatting a lot. He made a comment that got me thinking, along the lines of if a bigshot like Stephen King decided to contract directly with kindle, the publishing houses might go the way of the doodoo. it's something to think about at any rate (especially for those friends of mine with novels they don't know how to cut down to satisfy the existing system)

Of course not everything is beer and skittles in the writing world. My story's anthology is still not out and ones that I'm pretty sure were filled AFTER it are. I don't want to be a pest and ask after it, at least not yet. I just get paranoid. I have a track record of getting stories accepted then the thing folds before it sees print. In fact the above mentioned vampire thing was bought THREE times 13 years ago and never once actually saw print.

As for the fanfic issues, I guess a lot of my bitching lately has been centered over the anonymous kink meme's (all of them not just one) where we get people using the anonymous part of it to either put up pairing requests that bash the pairing or worse, fill a pairing request with a story that bashes the pairing.I can't understand that sort of trolling. My god, to take the time to write a story that is so obviously NOT what the requestor wanted is beyond me. That would be like me writing a Buffy/SPike story where Buffy is only using Spike because Angel isn't around or writing Ed/Winry where Ed's wishing Winry was Al. There are plenty of requests for so many pairings, I don't get why people can't ignore the ones they don't like. I don't go into the Roy/Ed section and make a request that Roy really wants Riza while he's doing Ed. I wish people would stop being stupid. It's making me long for the paperzine days when every story went to an editor for approval. (oh we had OTHER issues back then, don't you worry but still...)

To end on a less sour note go check out moschus's journal. SHe put up two excellent writing blogs this week. She's the urban fantasy author I mentioned last week.

91992 / 100000 words. 92% done!

Picspam and some help from the UK peanut gallery

okay was watching Being Human lately (and even though i set it to record three minutes past the hour i STILL didn't get the damn end of the finale) Anyhow, usually I'm good with the slang but I have no idea what is a 'tv license?' Also smashing the granny I'm pretty sure i get but clarification would be fun. Also I love how much dirtier the language is and how our censors bleep it but leave just enough of the word that it's totally pointless to bleep.

Okay I've been meaning to do this picspam for weeks but was too busy and in too foul a mood.

if you live like this, you might be a redneck

half my garden, weeds and crap and all

the other half where the rocks don't match in color to the other side and the grass is coming THROUGH the plastic

the astonishingly nice rose from walmart's take it away pile


coreopsis and more weeds

a strange orange shroom at mom and dad's

purple fingerling potatos i had to oven fry and thought were pretty

mom and dad's old garage that they just repainted orange and silver

me and naru


ditto

Rogue helping Dad do his back exercises

wet Rogue drying off action shot

yes i see you but you BATHED me so go the hell away

even more help from the peanut gallery

I'm rather stuck on something in my vampire story. I've written myself into a corner. Arrigo (the vampire) is very wealthy and been alive a long long time. Luc, on the other hand, is youngish, all but illiterate and dead poor.

Arrigo's been to the bar Luc works at once and will run into him again but I'm not sure HOW to get these two together. OUt of fear of his family (who probably would kill him), Luc is not likely to go to a gay bar or something that you know would be public so the villian can see and turn him... He also doesn't have much money to be gambling.

I can't even really go with the Arrigo uses his pull to get him a job as a bar tender at a better place since those guys have mixology degrees etc.

Thoughts about where in Vegas they could meet up that wouldn't cost much and they would concievably go.

thanks