The Big Update
I guess I have a lot of ground to cover. Today is wonderful and terrible, joyful and shocking. I'm starting to feel like a character in a book! But it's not as good a read since a lot of it is internalized. Today was a good day for sales at the store, which was uplifting. I got a piece of the Procyon puzzle figured out and another chunk done on a wall map/scroll (its on butcher paper don't get too excited) mapping out how all this research falls out. (Writers/Researchers, invest in butcher paper! You still have to do all that work, but it looks cool on your wall and is fun to play with.)
I got through the day, but my leg is telling me it is displeased. Aspirin/Ibuprofen wasn't cutting it so it's onto alcohol which does a great job on muscle pain with few side effects. I was in better shape tonight than yesterday so I managed to make dinner, red curry chicken sprinkled with cheese. Tasty! A bit hot! (drinking more of the beverage...whee!)
And then there is the news about the extinction of the black rhino subspecies. I've wanted to work with and save animals since I WAS FIVE!! But by the time I finished college, so did everyone else. So I have to come at it at an oblique angle. That is still a work-in-progress. Hopefully I will get it to bear fruit. Then I will use some of what I make off of it to help fund measures to save the animals I love so much.
Last but not least, the amazing guest of honor who looked at my writing sample at Penguicon and gave me a couple of exercises to try looked at my first one and gave me feedback already! How incredibly nice of him! I didn't expect an answer so soon but it's wonderful to have it. I am seriously considering using these exercises to write with for the long term. They might be a great way to escape stuck scenes and remove clunky sections. So tonight I hope to tackle the second half and then maybe play around with some character concepts that were floating around in my head today. I may have enjoyed writing in someone else's sandbox for an exercise, but unless a miracle happens, I can't really do anything with this piece...except turn it into a running gag, which I TOTALLY am doing, but that does not make money. (But amusing the crud out of yourself is priceless, right?) So time to start putting this knowledge to use in-between the mammoth-sized project.
I got my first short story accepted on Thursday (4/25/13) by Firbolg Publishing and it will appear in the Rogue's Gallery next month! It's a free press so check it out if you like gothic horror. I had set a resolution on New Year's Day to get published this year. I submitted some haiku's that very evening and one was accepted for a Valentine's Day collection called "Haiku for Lover's: An Anthology of Love and Lust". Oh heck, I'll throw a link in here. My name is listed in the book description with the other authors! So exciting! So lots of things have been going on and I figured it was high-time I updated.
Our first store-front will be closing at the end of this month as it is in a bad location. We've learned a lot and days like today show us that we could probably make it work elsewhere, but we aren't in a position to pull that off right now. The goal for now is to get the husband moved back home from his work exile period and get the house sorted out. Then maybe in a year we will be able to try again. Still, we learned a lot and survived it all so we will still count it as a win. And I am starting to meet and hang out with more authors both online and off which has been wonderful, inspiring, and amazingly helpful. So love to all of them, and love to all my friends here. Ciao!
I got through the day, but my leg is telling me it is displeased. Aspirin/Ibuprofen wasn't cutting it so it's onto alcohol which does a great job on muscle pain with few side effects. I was in better shape tonight than yesterday so I managed to make dinner, red curry chicken sprinkled with cheese. Tasty! A bit hot! (drinking more of the beverage...whee!)
And then there is the news about the extinction of the black rhino subspecies. I've wanted to work with and save animals since I WAS FIVE!! But by the time I finished college, so did everyone else. So I have to come at it at an oblique angle. That is still a work-in-progress. Hopefully I will get it to bear fruit. Then I will use some of what I make off of it to help fund measures to save the animals I love so much.
Last but not least, the amazing guest of honor who looked at my writing sample at Penguicon and gave me a couple of exercises to try looked at my first one and gave me feedback already! How incredibly nice of him! I didn't expect an answer so soon but it's wonderful to have it. I am seriously considering using these exercises to write with for the long term. They might be a great way to escape stuck scenes and remove clunky sections. So tonight I hope to tackle the second half and then maybe play around with some character concepts that were floating around in my head today. I may have enjoyed writing in someone else's sandbox for an exercise, but unless a miracle happens, I can't really do anything with this piece...except turn it into a running gag, which I TOTALLY am doing, but that does not make money. (But amusing the crud out of yourself is priceless, right?) So time to start putting this knowledge to use in-between the mammoth-sized project.
I got my first short story accepted on Thursday (4/25/13) by Firbolg Publishing and it will appear in the Rogue's Gallery next month! It's a free press so check it out if you like gothic horror. I had set a resolution on New Year's Day to get published this year. I submitted some haiku's that very evening and one was accepted for a Valentine's Day collection called "Haiku for Lover's: An Anthology of Love and Lust". Oh heck, I'll throw a link in here. My name is listed in the book description with the other authors! So exciting! So lots of things have been going on and I figured it was high-time I updated.
Our first store-front will be closing at the end of this month as it is in a bad location. We've learned a lot and days like today show us that we could probably make it work elsewhere, but we aren't in a position to pull that off right now. The goal for now is to get the husband moved back home from his work exile period and get the house sorted out. Then maybe in a year we will be able to try again. Still, we learned a lot and survived it all so we will still count it as a win. And I am starting to meet and hang out with more authors both online and off which has been wonderful, inspiring, and amazingly helpful. So love to all of them, and love to all my friends here. Ciao!