Happy Mother's Day

Here's hoping all the mom's on my list have a really nice mother's day.

Writerly Ways

I’ve been a bit too busy to really put forth a lot of effort into this week’s writing post. I find it ironic that last week I was angsting over whether or not I’m doing justice to my Native American characters and then our government names the strike against Bin Laden “Geronimo.” What the hell? Talk about insensitive and offensive on all levels. I can just imagine the thought process ‘well that Geronimo fellow eluded us forever, let’s name it after him…’ Twits.

So what do I have for you here:
my original fiction offering for helpthesouth in case you missed it last night

Mostly I’m going good on my space pirate erotica but I REALLY have to step that up. I could use a beta or two who is willing to do a quick beta (and/or look at half now, half later)

Other than that I have to say, as much as I dislike twitter on the whole, it’s being a real help in finding writing links. I’m going to share a bunch with you now.

Donald Maas literary agency I’m putting this here, less for the agency (which is primo by the way) and more for his ‘break thru novel’ prompts.

book country This is a beta community moderated (in part) by an agent mjaedin turned me on to. I need to give this comm a serious look-see. I think it might be very helpful (Need to look up the faq sheet to see if you have to be published to join)

epub clients daily epublisher is an agent that deals with ebook erotica so there is some helpful info for people looking at the genre

mystery writing is murder a mystery writing/publishing blog

Echelon Press Author Daily another writing blog

story a day It’s a prompt writing community where you’re supposed to come up with a short story a day….probably not going to happen on my end but doesn’t mean I won’t peek in to see if I can find prompts to get me moving.

Speaking of which, I did pluck one of Donald Maas’s.

In your current scene, what’s the strongest emotion? Why is it welcome? Why not? What’s good about it? What’s utterly wrong?

Confusion. It’s welcome because Telek has been kept in a cell inside the fight compound his whole life, everything about ship life and socializing is new to him. Why is it not welcome, mostly because of word count. The one thing about short stories, you don’t have time to explore. It’s good because it gives another dimension to Telek and it allows Al to feel protective of Telek, bringing them closer, quicker. What could be utterly wrong is if it veers too deeply into insecure land. Telek is strong but it would be easy to undermine that.



Yearly word count -

26424 / 125000 words. 21% done!

Space Pirates -

5581 / 10000 words. 56% done! (this really ISNT good. I've not even established a relationship yet. oh boy

weight off week 18

yeah still on the plateau but I'm HAPPY about it. I had to bump up the insulin and this time I DIDN'T gain weight so yeah.

Exercise news. The local YMCA got a million dollars. They're expanding and putting in a pool. PLEASE be an indoor pool. Maybe i'll get a place to go exercise.

Wonders how much energy I burned weeding. Surely that HAS to count for something. I was sweating enough.

Anyone else have anything they want to share here? Feel free.

Let's try a South Beach diet recipe that really isn't cooking. Just chopping for the cooking impaired.

( South Beach Chopped Salad with Tuna )

and honestly it makes more than I can eat in one sitting.

semi productive day

Finally got mom to say hey yeah maybe tea will be a good mother's day gift. (she kept saying i want nothing)

I got out into the garden for an oddly pain-free session. I literally filled my red wagon with weeds. Accidentally whacked a few things I want to keep and I'm not sure about a couple perenials. I left them alone in case they come back. I DID yank out one obviously very dead one and I put in an antique rose. Check out my rose. It's a Paul Neyron, a hybrid perptual rose, a cultivar dating back to 1869. Got it for 3 bucks at Big Lots so you know it's not the healthiest of things...yet. I have another from them that's doing well but I noticed that something is eating the leaves. Time to look up green solutions for that problem.

I did find a hugely fat toad in there. Yay. I should get him a toad house. Found a pale wolf type spider. Left her alone even if she disgusts me. I might put the tomatoes in here too. Wish I found find something more attractive than tomato cages though.

Got my winter dress clothes put away and the summer dress ones out (next up the casual wear). I have a growing pile of 'donations' at this point. I could toss out a chunk of what I did keep if properly motivated. I had a hawaiian shirt here that might be too small now (it shrank. I bought it when I was heavier than now). Probably too big for evil_little_dog

Watched Fringe ( meh )

Watched the New Who ( I liked it )

( day194, my garden, different rose )

Fic - A Thousand And One Broken Bodies

Title - A Thousand And One Broken Bodies
Author - cornerofmadness
Fandom - Saiyuki
Disclaimer - Minekura owns this, not me.
Rating - R for violent themes
Characters/Pairing- Kanan/Gonou (past), Kanan point of view, Chin Yisou
Timeline/Spoilers - set within Kanan’s imprisonment
Word Count -1,487
Warning - mentions of torture and rape
Summary - Kanan refuses to give in
Author’s Note - this was written for the remixers_lounge for the story Scheherazade -- or -- A thousand and one youkai by Red_Squared. I thought it had a really interesting alternative idea for how things went for Kanan. Thanks to evil_little_dog for the beta.

( If he can save you )