Writerly Ways

I've been reconsidering my publishing path lately. It used to be I could write fan fic and three novels all at the same time. Now I can barely write one thing. I know a lot of this is down to internet addiction and pissing away time on facebook games etc. I don't even LIKE facebook. I never see posts I want to see but I'm still there all the time.

Anyhow, I know gay romance is not the only thing I want to write and let's be honest, my career is luke warm at very best. I think I need to take a step back a bit. Yes, finish my ongoing projects but I need to start doing other things to do (maybe ones where the female audience aren't worse misogynists than men and aren't just in the story to watch the pretty men fuck because seriously some of this makes me feel ...annoyed, dirty, angry, pick one)

I have a couple finished novels. I think that Machiavelli Moon as much as I love it might never be viable. Sigh. Makai and his universe need me and my coauthor to get our crap together which is easier said than done.

On the other hand Splinters of Silver & Cold Iron might be easy to polish up. I know there's at least another story there to tell. I think that I stand a good chance with this, even if it's YA and my pub credits are not. If nothing else, having my novels out there with a publishing house (as opposed to self pubbing) proves I can take directions from an editor and know a little bit about marketing etc (not nearly enough mind you). Not knocking self pubbing mind you. One day that might be how Machiavelli Moon gets out there. I need to make some serious changes to some of that, however.

I have my dieselpunk mystery that has two half done stories in them but judging by the comments from my writers group the first of them is way worse than I think it is. It's going to take some serious rewriting.

I know that around this time of year I say this same thing, hold my feet to the fire and poke me if I'm not talking about editing this stuff and moving forward. I know I've done it the last two or three years if not more. I don't do it. No one pokes me and the stuff just sits.

I need to be more serious about it this year. I hope I have it in me. I want to be able to do it. Wish me luck. I hate failing and I have been lately. Badly.

But I WILL try for this anthology because SF!
beyond the infinite So what would you like to see in gay SF? Seriously, I'm asking.

And Jana's been busy. You can see her a week in writing here (with props to several of you) and my rainbow snippet complete with buy links.

Also my friend ES has shared two good links today. I haven't had time to full appreciate them but here we all could use them.

when a character is clever

costuming your character

Yearly word count -

144717 / 110000
(131.56%)

And oh non-writing things. I celebrated the end of the year with overpriced chocolate bars now buy one get one free (because NO ONE in Jackson can afford this) It's by Vosges, Mo's Dark Bar which is 62% dark chocolate, alderwood smoked salt and bacon. It's good. Not it's price tag good but still. Also my 215$ bill at Krogers (I bought gift cards with the groceries and also the groceries are gifts too) was only 182$ because of all my coupons. I love coupons.