Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

Two things make a story. The net and the air that falls through the net- Pablo Neruda

Right now air is about the only thing falling through my net. Today should be a perfect writing day. I'm legimitately too sore to do housework so sitting and creating should be good for me.

Only i have a sore throat and sort of feverish. bah. I need to get moving. Flat out. I think these last two eroticas I'm working on now might be the last for a while. I hate to say it but I think i'm burnt out on sex or at least on stories where sex is the main part of the plot.

I did send out that space opera erotica on 09/09/09 trying to tie into the 'luckiness' (at least by the Chinese way of looking at it). It made it as far as being on an editor's desk. That's where my other erotica is now too. So it's the waiting game. I play it badly. Like checking my email 100 times is going to make it happen. Worse, no publisher is EVER on time with their given estimates.

writing in a vacuum is hard too since without input what are we? Not sure vampires are my original fiction filter's cup of tea (or we're all busy or it sucks...) Maybe i'll get enough of the other erotica done today to put up a piece of i t.

You will note that I have changed my word count goal. I passed my original goal of 100K of original fic in a year and we're not even to nano so I've upped it by 75K. Wish me luck

100803 / 175000 words. 58% done!

Comments

[caffeinified.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the writing.

And I hope you don't get sick!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks on both accounts

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

Some of your original fic I do have a hard time with because it's *not* my cup of tea, particularly the high-fantasy sorts of stuff. But I did find Machiavelli Moon interesting, and I do like vampires.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah, that i can understand. I have to struggle in my writers gruops with genres that I do not like

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I hate to say it, but one reason I started writing fanfiction is because the lack of feedback was driving me crazy. And yes, I check my e-mail a hundred times a day, too -- not to mention waiting by the mailbox, since one of my submissions was through snail mail.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i hearyou. I'm getting so spoiled here in the electronic age because the feedback is instanteous. But yes I do get a little disappointed when people ask to be on the filter then never say a word, even though I know they're busy or this might not be their genre etc

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I have so little time to comment on anything these days, but I feel guilty when I don't -- even though I know I should be writing.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

tell me about it. i have a stack of fanfic to read but haven't

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Close to a thousand fanfic stories are waiting in my in box ...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

shudders