Is it Monday Already?
Pardon our dust. We just moved to a new host and had to do some remodeling. We’re still unpacking and haven’t found the boxes containing the shop or the forums as of yet. Please be patient with us while we get settled in and get all the rooms back into working order. At least we found the blog. Seriously, the blog was left at the former dwelling and got thrown out by the old landlord. It was a tense few hours, there. But my ever resourceful web guru dived into the trash and pulled the blog out before it could curl up an die. After resuscitating the blog and taking it to the new home, we were pretty worn out. I think the web guru is sleeping on an air mattress down stairs.
I like the new place. We’ll have the coffee back on soon.
In the meantime:
For anyone interested in writing communities, peer review, or self-publishing, you really need to read this post along with the comments from traditionally published authors. You might also consider the joining the e-Book Fiction Club. I’m looking forward to it.
While we were moving yesterday (which really consisted of me watching the brawny movers do the work while I sat on the laptop and obeyed basic instructions), I wrote 9300 words on a new concept. I dreamed the title and the most basic premise, woke up and started taking notes. By 10 pm last night, my software had passed 9300. Tired but very happy writer girl with very sore hands here. I’m not opposed to binge writing early in the project. I got out everything I had and now have to incubate a bit.
The thing most interesting to me was the genre/setting. So not me, and the third time this year I’ve said that. I guess I need to redefine what’s me and what’s not.
I checked here yesterday and found it was gone!! then I eliminated the blog at the end of the address, found the new site, and waited.
and was rewarded. glad you’re back! and congrats on the new digs… very chic!
as for binging, sometimes it just comes, nothing you can do but massage those hands, and see what comes next. I find the you/not you genre situation interesting. hmmm… looking forward to how that evolves…
It’s gotten kind of crazy, Anna. First I said I would never write horror, then wrote a short story with definite horror overtones.
Then I said I didn’t think I’d write action adventures. A few months later I was elbow deep in one.
I was certain I would never write anything set in mid-century America and didn’t think I could write YA well, but here I am, now over 16k words into a YA set in mid-century America.
If I said I never saw myself writing crime stories or thrillers, will I be doing that next? I wouldn’t doubt it, lol.