The Archive will be reading, the Promptcast will be reading. I will be juggling my attention between those livestreams and my own writing... and probably my stupid ankle.
Treating it gently after a long day walking around is a good idea.
Story whenever I can make it happen.
In the meantime, I make sure I look after myself.
The shopping trip made my ankle really, really angry, so I'm taking more of a break for that sore and sorry portion of myself.
Sometimes, it's difficult to tell whether my heel or my ankle causing issues, I just limp all over the place. Or need my cane and cause worse knots in my firkin shoulder.
I need my cane today.
So instead of going on a Leyland's Tour with MeMum, I'll be staying in and doing the writing and the icing
Read more »Ah, the sweet relief of payday. Oh, the bitter sorrow of an overflowing shopping list. It's always the way. You get stuff queuing up to spend your money before you get it.
Bleh.
The good news is that I have the first very rough form-generated query letters for all of the five books I'm plotting to pitch.
15 minutes in the morning on ADT gets me a little ahead by degrees. I should be finished with a chapter before Monday, all being
Read more »The economy is up to shit. Last I heard of things, Beloved is job hunting with no other news to this day.
I am hoping to have income today. I have enough to cover the bills should things be that dire. I doubt they will be, but I have it there.
I know Beloved. She has a knack of finding a way to make things work. She'll either have a fantastic idea and go like a rocket, or find a golden deal
Read more »I think I shall do a New Year's Boast. Mix in the things I aim to accomplish with 10000% horseshit that nobody can possibly get away with. The neat thing about a boast is nobody expects any of it to happen.
Which is a concept I'll have to explain in my OpEd Blog for the slow of mind. In excruciating detail.
Because some of my readers have failed reading comprehension and take everything I say literally, or figure that The Killer could
Read more »We're down to our last loaf of bread so I shall be informing Miss Chaos that she's making the next batch. That will be happening later in the day. When she's conscious.
Meanwhile, I have Patreon stuff to post, a story to write, and an ankle to ice every two freaking hours.
And thanks to Trackbear, I now know that I've written almost 13K words for various creative works in less than a firkin week. I had NO IDEA I was that
Read more »The Promptcast is racing toward one million communal words this year. We're already at two percent and the first week of January hasn't even passed.
We're a loquacious bunch, it seems.
And competitive.
We're racing each other to put words into works and it's astonishingly fun. Keeping an eye on the Archive just in case they decide to meet, too.
I may also plug the idea of a year's goal to the Archive and see if we can get some friendly competition
Read more »I had to beg off doing a query letter because backache, headache, and what eventually revealed itself to be a fever.
I'm making myself some super lazy ginger garlic chicken soup, just in case I have full-on Lurgi. The super lazy part is that I am using things I already have at home, and doing as little as possible in the prep department.
Hello slow cooker, my old friend.
An absolute blessing when you're out of spoons.
I'll get that going after
Read more »I spent two hours prawning over my laptop and writing fanfic in the wee small hours, and for some reason my back hurts. Correlation is not causation. I need more data on this.
I have no idea how to log in to my KDP account and withdraw Free Baby so that's a pain in the arse for me.
I'll unriddle this in the fullness of time.
There has to be a way to find the account associated with the publication. Or figure
Read more »There's a low pressure system somewhere within a 500km radius of my location and my face is feeling it. I've taken my painkillers and hoping that they actually work this time. If they don't, I have another timer running so I can get a safe, second dose.
Meanwhile, I get going on other stuff. Today's story, cleaning catboxes, creating a VERY rough query letter for Beauties and the Beastly. That sort of thing.
Then I go back around and refine the things
Read more »It's 2026 and we're all hoping for good news this year.
Unfortunately for me, I started the new year with a pre-migraine blind spot. I have taken my painkillers and I'm hoping they save my ability to can.
And yes, I already put words into ADT.
Now to commence the collection of stories for this year. Whilst editing the old collection for errata.
At least I have the cover sorted. Huzzah.
Onwards to creating this year's first element of nonsense.
Read more »The year is grinding to a close and I still don't know what I'm doing with myself. Everything is, as always, sideways. But at least I'm having fun with the fic/drawing exchange with Mr. Crowbar.
Come January, I enter another year of attempting to finish off ADT. Maybe this will be the one that does it.
The count of remaining chapters dwindles ever downwards. Unless catastrophe, I should be able to get it down and thereby start to get it out.
Read more »I need to stock up on a few things to keep the fam chewing, and keep me moderately sane. Translation: I need to get some of my meds as well as some supplies.
I don't know if I'm doing Patreon and Rants this week. I'll see how I feel after I return from my excursion.
I am feeling very tired about feeding that beast.
BUT I also want to make sure the chapters are recorded and ready to share.
I also have
Read more »I'm hanging out with my Archive friends and when they have to go, I shall go annoy my Promptcast friends.
And somewhere in the middle of all that, I'm coming up with a story for today.
TOMORROW, I have to go shopping, so I must extend an invitation to the spawn to go spend their JB HiFi cards.
But today, I can last a bit of a while, so I will get on with today's offerings and trundle off later.
AND there's
Read more »Beloved has an artisinal, bespoke phone case for my new phone. She designed and printed it herself. My next challenge is figuring out how to use it in navigation mode because - owing to a misunderstanding - new phone is big and case will make it bigger.
I did politely request a new phone stand for my car. The current jiggery-pokery may not hold. Which promises to be a can of arseholes for yours truly.
I'll find a way to cope. Somehow.
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