Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

I don't really have any thoughts just now. I said I was going to start with the morning papers today ala masqthephlsphr but then slept to 10 AM 0_0! (okay I did go to bed at 2 but still)

I did manage to write 3,043 words of new original fiction over the last week. Mostly that was all me adding to existing stories, cleaning them up but some of it was work on my werewolf YA novel (a former nano) which had run out of chapters and I needed something new for my writers group in two weeks. I'm actually pretty happy with them.

I did go looking for possible markets for existing short stories. I'm still scowling that most of the paying markets on Ralan.com STILL want snail mail submissions. THis is why I dropped out 10 years ago. Genre short stories (barring romance) pay very little. It wasn't worth the postage. You'd think a decade down the line this would have changed. Sigh.

I did find two markets for a longish vampire erotica. It needed overhauled in the worst way (It also being nearly a decade old). It might be popping up on my original fiction filter for those who read on that.

I am still obsessessing over the story i sent to circlet. I might send a query about it. One editor wanted it so bad she said she would buy it even in reprint but she ended up not the editor of this anthology. I never heard that they even got it (new rule, online submission friendly sites need autorepliers) and it's been a month. I need to go look at their reading times. I know places hate the didja get it query but a month after sending a story they seemed to really want makes me way more nervous than it should.

okay I lied. I had thoughts.

http://picometer.writertopia.com/words=35377&target=100000

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Many thoughts, obviously.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that's me always thinking

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

I see you like your icon.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i do

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

You can do morning pages any time, as long as you have just woken up, or are otherwise disconnected from your logical brain.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

no i couldnt I was very very late

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't do them on the weekend, either.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i'll try it tomorrow...though I'm not very disassociative in the morning. What am i supposed to be writing (read am too lazy to go look at hte one julia cameron book i have to find out)

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

You write whatever comes to mind for ten minutes without stopping. And you have to use the full ten minutes, even when you have absolutely nothing to say. If you can't think of anything to write, you write about the fact that you can't think of anything to write.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

ah so it doesn't have to be fiction or hashing plots or anything

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Nope, although after you've practiced at it a bit, you can give yourself prompts from your stories and see what comes out.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i'll give i t a whirl (My issue is REMEMBERING i want to do this)

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Leave a sticky note for yourself on the bathroom mirror.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

not a bad idea