Today I decided to try something new. I'm posting a livejournal entry with my hands behind my back. Yep that's right, I'm playing around with speech recognition. So far it's not too bad; I'm only using the Windows Vista version but it still works pretty well. I've got to say I was surprised at how little training it needed. I'd don't know if ( Read more... )

What's Vladdy-Stu you ask? It's that angsty vampire sex-god character designed to be the love interest for a Mary-Sue type of character in fiction. Vladdy-Stus are one of the reasons I can't stand so many vampire books these days. Too many are wish-fulfillment fantasies and they drive me nuts ( Read more... )

So, this morning I was getting the weeble (my six-year-old) ready for school and she tells me, "you're handsome ( Read more... )

With Summonings Wanted, the "Princess" story I started with an idea and wrote about a third of the story before I did anything regarding an outline. Even then all I really did was figure out a very rough sequence of events and write down the conclusion. If anyone's interested the story's posted in the "Share Your Work" section of Absolute Write ( Read more... )

Summonings Wanted: Draft one complete at 2946 words ( Read more... )

Long weekend, much food, not much work done. No surprise there ( Read more... )

Here I am, getting back into writing fiction because the freelance sites have dried up when a buyer I thought had disappeared suddenly reappears out of nowhere and funds the project. So I'm back working on his project (which may or may not slow my fiction work, I'm not sure yet ( Read more... )

Story is coming along; not as fast as yesterday, but it's moving. In the meantime I've signed up for Critters and with any luck that will help my writing. Today's goal is to at least pass 2000 words if not 2500.

Charge!

I have returned from my trip to the wilds of downtown-- clutching the post office receipt in my hand.

Two submissions away, now off to work on my story.

Since I've decided to go into short stories again I figure it's best to get things rolling with a bang ( Read more... )