Writerly Ways

No lie I'm struggling with this one today. I had a plan. I knew what I wanted to do then I got into a conversation with a friend in my genre and ran up against the I was told I can NOT submit anything but contemporary any more. Wow, it just takes it directly out of you. Pretty soon the only way to get LGBT stories out there will be self pubbing. That's not necessarily a bad thing but damn, it's so hard to wrap your head around how many hurdles that have been thrown out there for fantasy/SF authors who want to write m/m or f/f in the last year.

So what I'm going to do is take it as my call to action on my Non-Jana stuff! Let me practice the acceptance part of mindfulness. It's too easy to sink into depression but I need to remind myself I have no less than three finished novels and one that's half done. The best of the lot is easily Splinters of Silver and Cold Iron. I have reams of comments from my writers group from years ago, still lying there because that's about when Jana took off.

Anyone want to hold my hand as I get into this, editing this, blowing off the dust like I promised myself I would and really seeing if I can get an agent and get something going with this book? Or at least prod me here on LJ to comment more on it?

My plan right now is to a) finish revamping Blood Red b) finish the steampunk christmas story since it's wasted effort if I don't. And THEN get into editing Splinters while I work on Cassadaga Nights and Conned (as again, done, no sense wasting effort) and noodling around on the two started novels Jana has. I want to try and balance this better if I can. I just need motivating and man I'm looking forward to Camp Nano because I do so much better with competition or at least someone who wants to write 100 words with me like we've done in other challenges.

I do have links again today (Thanks Betty)

author discoverability something I need to come back to once I'm not at the edge of tears.

why reviews matter seriously do. I know most of my flist is made of readers. Review those puppies.

how to find reviewers (of the professional nature)

writing pain I loved this one and it highlighted one of my pet peeves, the injured character being good enough for sexy times about an hour after a grievous injury.

not writing for writers

Your own something special

Yearly Word Count -

5072 / 100000 words. 5% done!

Splinters of Silver - editing nothing

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

Steampunk Holiday - scribbled something on paper

Behind Blue Eyes - back burnered

Haunted Hocking -

2129 / 60000 words. 4% done! (i.e same as last time but I did write a bit on paper.)

Today made yesterday look accomplishment filled

Today I managed to get food and then spent the day sitting and staring, no reading, no writing, no working, no tv watching, nothing. Yeah, not depressed or anything. Sigh.

It started when my phone rang before 9 AM on a weekend. First thought, who is gonna die when I catch them? Answer evil_little_dog who dialed by accident. Did you get that door fixed?


this house helped to depress me. While overpriced for Hamden, I really loved it....until I saw it was next door to a used car lot but I thought that was okay until I saw it was zoned business. What a WASTE of an adorable bungalow.

Tried to pay my phone bill using their automated payment system....it's their phone number but they have it BLOCKED. What the holy fuck?


My dad sent me and Kanda a Valentine day card. I sort of cried.



Day #5 5 greatest experiences: Hmmm, escaping high school, graduating medical school, having my first medical practice, selling my first novel, getting to explore all the wonderful places I've visited (London, Wales, Victoria, Vegas). I'm sure I'm supposed to expound on it but if I can't do more than sit and breathe all day what makes you think I have the capacity for that.


Day 12 - What do I find romantic? Ha, judging by reviews of my romance novels, not what anyone else does. I would love to be whisked away on a vacation, and not some boring lay around on the beach vacation. Take me some place I can explore, historical sites are great, take me to a castle and let's find a neat place to eat.