I'm alive, I swear it!
LOL. So legendarytobes has informed me my very existence was in question. And no wonder! I have been gone so long! There are many reasons for that. To sum up: Work, ghosts in my computer, work, ghosts killed my computer, work, Uncle Mike and yet another party, work, watched Breaking Bad, work, new computer, work...
It's nothing very exciting. Summer is always a busy time of year, but early fall has been busy as well as I've been putting myself out there more and trying to court more business from restaurants and senior living communities to keep me paid in the lean months so I'm not panicking. So, between promoting myself and the actual singing, I'm kind of busy. But I'm financially stable and that feels okay... even if most of these places take forever to actually send me checks. LOL. I'm getting by, though.
As for fandom and fic, I have some stuff ready to post that should be going up this week and I'm hoping to keep a tight posting schedule through September and October in the hopes of (and this is overly ambitious, but I'll try) finishing all my WIPs by the end of October. I'm not going to beat mysefl over the head if I don't, but I'm going to try to push myself to finish so I can take part in Nanowrimo.
And, hell, if I don't have them done by then, I'll just start my own personal Nanowrimo when that happens. But I will write a Romance novel.
I did make one decision that takes a little weight off my mind. I've decided to scrap the first novel that I was trying to get fit to self pub ("polishing the turd" was the phrase I most used for it and it was all too fitting). I just don't think it's very good. I did have a couple people read it who enjoyed it, but I can't be sure if they were being nice or what. It has some nice scenes and bits, but the whole is not that good and I'm just not happy with it. And the amount of work it would take to make me unashamed to publish it would actually be more than writing one fresh would take.
It was a bit crowded and self indulgent and, as it was my first novel, just had too many subplots going on rather than one main plot that was gripping. So I'm just going to consider it a first effort or even an exercise and move on with something fresh. I do want to thank those who read it for their concrit and the time they took reading it. I'm not abandoning it altogether. I just need time trying something new so I can feel experienced enough to come back and doctor it up. It needs a lot of work and I'm just not the woman to do it yet... but I will be at some point.
As for fic, I'll be posting new chapters starting tomorrow.
I'll also try to go through and catch up with you guys! I know the friends "feed" or whatever doesn't go back enough to cover how long I've been away, but I shall stalk your entries and try to make sure you never feel rejected or lack of looooove (points to whoever knows what that's from. I don't know what the points do. But points!)
