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Dog Days… Are not over

 

 

I hope you guys had a great holiday weekend and week following. Mine was busy, I actually went out to visit with friends twice this week, surprisingly. It was needed last night I finished edits from the editor I’m working with. Now I have four more versions to work on, we’re testing out POV’s to make sure I’ve picked the right one. We’re doing this because Legacy has two character POV’s that we see, one main one and than one that shows up in a handful of chapters. So we need to make sure everything flows for the readers and not just in my mind. And lets face it my mind when writing may not be the best judge. I mean I do like dark things and tend to write about them. ;)

I’ll be honest since the last time I posted it’s been crazy. I lost my ipod, well lost is the wrong word, it’s dead. I was running the other night and it started raining and as you’ve probably guessed it got wet and died. So I had to go get something I could run with and move songs and audiobooks around. I must say it really sucks that you can’t take music off you’re ipod and put it in a folder for another device, it would make knowing what’s on one much simpler. Now I have a nano for running instead of my 80 gig and my touch has my writing music and books. Putting that together has taken time away from editing though which sucks. But its don’t know so that’s good.

I also helped a friend out last weekend by reading her latest edits, and I must say I loved what she has so far. I can’t wait to see what comes next and I think you guys will love it too.

Two cool thing  happened this week one is that Flyboy sent me some beautiful flowers, a mix of calla lilies and red roses.  It got my mind out of the dark depths of my writing, and I can’t stop smelling them or looking over at them. I’ll post pictures later.  The second is that I got a job back in a legal office, it’s part-time so I’ll still be able to write every day. I want to do a happy dance.

I started a new series, at least listening to it. Rachel Caine‘s Morganville Vampires Series. You guys should check it out if you haven’t done  so yet. It has something like twelve books out so I’m a little late to the party. When my friends and follow PBD (Dolls) talked about it I was a little sick of vampires after reading Charlaine Harris‘s Sookie Stackhouse. Granted I haven’t read any of those since book 9 or 10 I can’t remember which, the one that came out in 2009 I think though it could have been 2008. Anyway audible was having a sale so I checked a few books out and I’m hooked, go figure. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that all the series I read have already come out so there’s nothing new to read. Plus I really like the narrator, Cynthia Holloway, I like her as Merit in Chicagoland Vampires and she works for this too. Rachel Caine has been making me laugh in her Morganville Vampires series, in fact I’ve laughed out loud a few times, even when running. So check it out.

Alright guys I need to get to work, the life of a writer never stops and if this is ever going to work I have to get those edits done.

Have a great Sunday night see you soon.

 


Holly Cow Batman

Over the last few days I’m been working on Legacy (like always) but I’m trying to get it ready for two contest and to be sent out. I have a few paragraphs posted on WeBook on the Page to Fame section and it’s not going so bad. I’d post what they are saying but it won’t let me if you follow me on twitter or facebook you can find the links. Most of my work has been at time when Flyboy goes to bed so I can work. He really tries to let me during the day but for some reasons he always has questions for needs me to help with something. Other times he just wants to sit with me and that is difficult when I want to lock myself in the office and have nothing to do with the world. I tried this Saturday with no luck. My phone was turned off and the pups were quite but Flyboy needed me to checkout the additions to the flower bed that he added. Paving stones, he did an awesome job and I’ll post the pictures later. The only problem I couldn’t get work done. But that night when he went to sleep I got work done. I even got some research done for Blood. It needs some work. I changed the name of the town in Legacy, the new name fits like a glove.

On another note a friend of mine has a website www.edensbookshelf.com, check it out. It’s all about Indie publishing. I’ve added her RSS feed to the side and you can find her on twitter too.

One of my new favorite artist has even more music over at soundcloud that has inspired me to write, Shaun Canon as you may remember wrote Live or Die that I think speaks to Legacy his other songs are just as magical. So check him out. You can follow him on FB, twitter and soundcloud. He also has a website. At the rate it’s going I may have to start a playlist page for you guys. Two of his songs can be found on iTunes and either today or tomorrow he may have up everything else. Maybe one day if I’m lucky I could get him to write a song for one of my stories.

Alright it’s time to get moving.


Words and Music

Lately the music I have on my Ipod isn’t helping the writing process, I keep wanting to change the song. Today I’m going to work on editing and changing out the music. Maybe by the end of the day I’ll have a music list for Legacy, One of the Boys, Blood and Little Boy Blue. I’ll let you know.


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