Not my Circus not my monkeys

But before that, let me talk about the good things. I went to a friend's Imbolc ritual. Her teenaged daughter wanted to do the ritual and led it. It was very nice. I enjoyed it. Hell I was just glad to get out of the house and talk to friends. We carved candles with power symbols and bathed it with ocean water. I put a few symbols on mine then realized one of them is the one priests carve on the candle that is burnt year long in the Catholic church. Oh my.

I also got the writers groups critiques done. I'm almost on time. I'm sadly proud of that.

As for those monkeys, I have a friend who keeps this alt right Trump fan on her FB. I think their businesses are sort of linked so that might be why as this friend has no time really for politics. And this trumpette turns EVERY post into a political post. You could post a kitten and she'd make it about how great Trump is and how horrible all liberals are. I try not to comment negatively to someone's posts but god she makes it difficult not to. A couple of us did today when she turned a post about my friend's daughter (who happened to be at a coffee shop that's giving Trump the finger) about how she shouldn't be at said coffee shop or give money to anyone who supports Black Lives Matter and Anti-Trump businesses.

I'd of banned her ass 2 seconds after telling me what I'm allowed my child to do. Some people make you want it to be your circus.

Writerly Ways

Actually I'm just going to share some writing links because I'm trying to finish Blood Red Roulette because I'm rather under the gun (also laughing my ass off as the Patriots bounce the extra point off the goal post, suck it Patriots).

I did want to thank kiramaru7 for beta reading chapter one of the new novel!

First off I've joined habitica. which makes reaching your life goals into an RPG so in theory it's more fun to do them. I'm failing at figuring out how to make the daily goals show up daily....

So let me jump right into the links

good one on description

good one on properly using backstory

how to fix plot holes

devising conflict between protagonists I think this bears thinking on because I loathe the let's not have one character tell another character important info (that any sane person WOULD share) just to cause drama trope (looking at you BtVS)

book promotion

using video to engage reader , not gonna lie, this one scares me a bit.

another podcast on characters

Yearly Word Count -

4031 / 100000 words. 4% done!

Splinters of Silver - editing nothing

Blood Red - finished the full revision, working on trouble spots

Steampunk Holiday - did jack

Behind Blue Eyes - back burnered

Haunted Hocking

2129 / 60000 words. 4% done!

Go Atlanta!