Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

It's been a whirlwind tour that keeps going and going. Still no writing, however, I'm hoping to get some time starting January 1. I can almost hear people say, "January 1? That's insane? It's so far in the future!" Well, I think there are so many things going on and I will be working 2 jobs (1 full time, 1 part time) that I don't think I will be able to handle much writing until I get a handle on everything else.

I will keep everyone posted! In the meantime, I look forward to seeing what everyone else is doing in writing and in life.

I am at the beach as I type. In the span of 24 hours, we have done so much. We went treasure hunting, collected seashells, fished (and even caught something), watched a movie, and made sand castles. Tomorrow we are going to see the aquarium and then go home.

As for writing, still nothing.

Regarding Genealogy, I mostly finished organizing the family name I was working on. I still need to make lots of prints but I think I am going to go to a copy store to do that. Otherwise, I'm moving onto the next family name. This next one is HUGE. We know alot of this side of the family. Part of the reason is a few years back I met someone who I discovered is a cousin on that side of the family. So between the two of us, we have large amounts of data.

Well, the title says it all. I'm still recovering from being sick. My lungs have been just rebelling against all that is trying to make them feel better. And it doesn't help that whatever the dr gave me is not helping me in the department of sleep so I have had many restless nights. Which of course leads me to the point of not being able to write because I'm too tired to write but too unsettled to really sleep.

So what did I decide to do? Continue organizing my genealogy.

I think a part of the reason why I decided to do this now was also because the new Family Tree Maker 2010 came out (though I did NOT buy it) and that family was heading to Germany and wanted to know locations he might like to visit based off the research. Well, he's back from Germany and lo and behold, last night, I found two new names and a brand new location that he could've checked out. *sigh* Oh well. But I am terribly excited and am hoping to give him a call and tell him the good news. Unfortunately, what I do have is so disorganized because sometime about 2007/2008 I was working from two computers and somehow overwrote files from the Family Tree Maker program and things got jumbled. I thankfully did the right thing by creating backups throughout that time and actually restored what I think is a version that has some correct information I can repaste into my current file.

Anyway, I'm guessing writing will have to be on hold at least long enough for my meds to wean down...maybe in a week.

How's everyone out there!

Last week I didn't get much done. I did get some done early in the week but I don't have those word counts right now. I ended up getting sick and then the meds didn't work and ended up with a fever and an extremely bad asthma issues. To top it off, I had family in town as my daughter turned one on friday. I went backto the doctor for more meds and my fever seems gone and my asthma is still there but much better than the night before when I was using my rescue inhaler more than I should have.

I don't know if I mentioned that for Olvidan I sent out to family and my other beta reader after_the_light. I got back replies from 2 of the 4 family members. I got a little bit of feedback but mostly editing mistakes. I'm hoping at some point I'll get some more feedback. Hubby's one of the readers but he hasn't said anything yet. Hopefully he'll get me something soon as I think he would understand most the type of feedback I am looking for.

How is everyone else doing?

This week was pretty good. Except for Thursday and Friday, I wrote the rest of the week. I may or may not write today.

9/13/09: 2426
9/14/09: 2651
9/15/09: 2724
9/16/09: 2954

Total Words written: 623

That's not alot of words but at least it's steady words.

Plus, I have been having this strange idea to create a sort of Story Wiki. It's kind of grabbed my brain and won't let go. If something comes of the thought I will post more on that. Right now, the only thing I can think is that my brain is too busy to add another task to the list. I guess that's what happens when I start writing regularly...I get more ideas.

Well, I've had some more progress. I found I was having trouble getting to the next part of this first scene. As usual, it turned out the reason was that I was doing something that wasn't jiving. Plus the action was lacking. So, I changed the person my MC runs into and instead of just coming across her, he ends up having to grab her from jumping out a window.

Starting Word Count: 1941
Ending Word Count: 2331

That's 390 words today. A huge difference and more in one sitting for a long time.

How's everyone doing?

Started: 9/7/2009
Ended: 9/9/2009

Total Words Written: 545

Not alot of words, but I've managed to write a little bit each of these days. Though one of the days I was lucky to get 10 words written.

I am going to try to post more regularly with my writing progress. I am hoping that will help me keep motivated.

Ok. Here's the plan...
This weekend is a three day weekend for me. (Thank you labor day). After my son's first full week of kindergarten, I'm as tired as he is. However, this week has given me a glimpse of what my new regular schedule will look like.

It seems that my old scheudule has become my new schedule and my "me" time has returned to the time between the hours of 8pm and 10pm (at the latest).

this weekend I'm going to rev myself up and get myself ready to start regularly writing again. I have stopped for a long time (at least for me) and I need to get back into the groove again. I did enjoy writing in the mornings as I am more fresh, but beggers can't be choosers so I must take what I can get.

So...

WISH ME LUCK!

So, I've been absent (no surprise). I've been on vacation and have things other than writing on my mind. During my vacation, my youngest decided she didn't want to leave my side so I ended up carrying her and feeding her, and bathing her, and pretty much doing nothing but taking care of her. (some vacation). Suffice to say, all I seem to be able to do is lay down and do nothing. Even going online is tiring. Yesterday, I actually went to lie down in bed and just lay there staring up at the ceiling.

I am so tired.


Hopefully I'll be able to get to writing after my oldest starts kindergarten and we get into a new routine. I want to make sure I'm in pure mommy mode.

Seems like the rest of LJ land is doing well.

Thought I would give a writing update. On Sunday I was able to get about 600 words written for AH. Not bad for only writing once a week for about 3 hours. Also, this morning, I had some inspiration about the next part of the scene I am writing. I wrote it down and am hoping I don't forget when next I sit down to write.

Other than that, I'm just trying to survive work long enough to make it to the weekend. Not that the weekend is any less tiring. It just means that I can do things with the people I want to, mainly friends and family.

I'm slowly getting time to write. I got some good writing time Sunday morning on AH and then I had some nice evening time to write a very short scene with Nadie in it. It's nothing big, but it's something. The scene is after a series of gruesome events happened (seeing hundreds of people dead and mutilated like reavers on a space station, having her father reappear after playing dead for a good decade and stealing her ship under the pretense of protecting her, and learning that someone performed unremembered surgery on her and stole memories from her and her crew) leading up to the proverbial "straw" in which Nadie ends up killing someone who looks exactly like her. For those of you who are Firefly fans, the person was wearing blue gloves and wielding one of those nasty items that uses sound to kill a person.

Anyway, you can see the short little scene into the insanity of Nadie here:
Disjointed Throughts

I think I've mostly slept this week. I've been awfully tired and hubby has been nice about giving me some unwind time when I come home. I did get a little bit of work on AH outlining. I'm working on an idea to combine both plotlines though I'm not sure if I want to yet.

We've also been playing Serenity and I've been interested in my Nadie character again. I'm hoping that I'll have some more diary entries to write soon.

I've been outlining AH and am quite pleased with what I am coming up with. The freemind software I have seems to be working quite well for me.

Though I'm getting antsy and think I need to start writing some scenes up. So, I am going to write up some random scenes to get the feeling for the story again.

Hope everyone had a happy 4th of July. I got to take my son to see fireworks. Though, we got home extremely late and my back went out.

I'm also getting an itch to do some genealogy: with what time, I do not know. So I may pick a few days this month and do some of that in the evening. We'll see what happens.

I've been playing around with Freemind, mapping out my AH story. It's been so long and I can't access a portion of my files for this story, so I need to go through the outline process again. I had an idea as well. I thought about when I start the story from the beginning it always comes out wrong and I flounder (all 2 books that I've attempted.) Well, I thought for the 2YN course, I had done some writing scenes and actually ended up using them so I thought maybe I would try that again. I think I will write just a few scenes to get a smattering of the characters and then I'll solidify my outline before I turn around and actually get down to writing seriousness. Afterall, I've got to do something to keep my mind off the fact that I have 4 people reading my first finished novel and 3 of them are family. For some reason, family makes me feel a little more nervous.

Anyway, seems I've been doing a fairly decent smattering of reading these past few weeks. I read some Terry Brooks (2 books), Rachel Caine (1 book), and 4 Graphic Novels (1 Dresden, 1 Buffy, Catwoman, and one that I'm not sure what it was but it was sure odd). I normally don't read Graphic Novels, but my husband does and lately he's been coming home from the library with a smattering of interesting looking covers on the graphic novels... well, actually he did specifically point the dresden one out to me as he thought I would be interested. lately, I'll see one of the books on the dining room table or next to our fouton and just happen to pick it up. I'm quite surprised considering this is more that I've read in months.

So, between crazy work and crazy family...my son is going through one of those rebellious stages that all 5 year olds go through, I've rounded out my days with a good read. Now all I've got to do is figure out what to get various people for their birthdays and I'll be set.

Well, I think I shall move on over to my other project and see what shall be written. I didn't realize I had so many other ideas of stories. there is AH, then there's book two of the one I finished (I had some inspiration). There's a few supernatural ideas I have (sorta vampires and/or werewolves), and there's just one really wierd idea which still needs to cook on the stove a bit. Anyway, though I'm itching to jump into book 2, I think I'll stick with AH as that one has a lot of potential if I can focus my brain on it.

I did it!!!! It's done!
Now I can bundle it up, send it off to be read by friends and family and focus on other things for a bit.

*phew*

Happy Belated Birthday after_the_light.

All I can say is this is the first time I've been online in quite a few days. :)

I hope it was a good one.

Ok. I don't know where I am or where I'm going. Between traveling, sick pets, demanding work, and everything else that's going on, I'm lucky I'm awake.

I'm just posting to let ya'll know I'm still here. If I can be anymore silent than I am already, I will be for the next few weeks while work gets worked out.

I started to make progress, but then I hit scene 3 in chapter 31. It's a scene that needs a complete rewrite due to all the changes in previous scenes. I have basically taken what I originally had and moved it around and added some new stuff and removed other stuff.

Anyway, I've been working on this scene for a week or so and I am so close to finishing and yet so far away. Hopefully next weekend I'll have a chance to finish the scene.

I've only got eleven more scenes to write. I am so close to being finished with this novel.

I'm finishing up Chapter 27. When I got to the end, I realized I would need to add a few more paragraphs to end the scene better than it was. Then I can move on to the next chapter and next scene.

On other fronts, I've been oddly absent from online life. I hope everyone has been doing well. I have a feeling I'm going to be scarce until June.