Got one of my tax refunds today!!! I will be able to make my next car payment after all! YAY ( Read more... )

Well, after a few applications, interviews and such, I am still unemployed. At least I am getting a few replies to my applications (Even if it is all rejections). So the job front is going poorly. At least I learned that I will get a tax refund, enough to give me maybe one more month of survival. Assuming I get that check in time to use it ( Read more... )

Did some work on my second novel today. Currently it has just under ten thousand words in it. Currently have plans for five novels in the "Sixth Age of Doulairen" series. Now for some nice details for all of you ( Read more... )

Well, we have moved on to a new year. My novel is done. My query letters have been sent out to my potential agents. Still no other job prospects on the horizon. I have high hopes for 2009. Low expectations... But high hopes. I have until the end of March before I go completely bankrupt with debt, so hopefully something can be found. In ( Read more... )

Family time for the year is over, thankfully. 2008 is nearly over, and 2009 has the potential to be bright. It also has the potential to be really, really dark. The real news is that I have finished the edits and rework of my novel. Yes, the novel is DONE ( Read more... )

Finished my rework of Chapter 1 of my novel. There was quite a bit of information that needed to be conveyed, but it needed to be done in a very different way than I originally had it. My new way lets the core antagonist be introduced a bit earlier, let you get to know him better (And therefore find your dislike of him easier ( Read more... )

And now comes the wonders of eating cooked turkey. Yum. However, giving thanks seems harder and harder. Dealing with family... Dealing with the job problems... The longer it goes on, it seems harder to find the things in your heart you should be thankful for ( Read more... )

Not sure what got me going, but I did a LOT of work on my novel today. Fixed up a lot of the holes created by cutting things out that should not be part of this story. The tale has a flow again, from what I can tell without reading it again. First chapter needs some serious work, and the later chapter (10 to 16) need to be read through to make ( Read more... )

Well, the time has come. As of the end of this week, if something does not happen with my finances or me getting a job, I am officially living on borrowed time. I can't expect any help from my family, neither of them have jobs either (Not that it matters, they wouldn't help me anyways ( Read more... )

Well, I've had some fun times recently doing a lot of surgery to my electronic devices. (Made you look with that interesting headline, didn't I ( Read more... )