Step 1: Wait for Beloved to drag self out of bed
Step 2: Go fetch them chicken thighs
Step 3: Also cheesecake, cream, and goopy naughty foods for some weekend indulgeance
Step 4: Play time!
Reasons to Focus
If I get done early, I can listen to a new episode of The Adventure Zone. Which I can't find at the moment because it isn't yet out on iTunes.
If I get done early, I can work on that painful fanfic I'm writing and thereby be able to torture folks when I'm done posting Fifteen Little Words. [Because all writers are secretly arseholes, that's why]
If I get done early, I can fart around in Factorio, Minecraft, or one of the
Read more »Time Flu
I don't know what's going on with me, but it might be interesting to look into it. My batteries are regularly drained by the end of the day. Protein doesn't help. Sugar certainly won't. Having a meal doesn't quite get me back up there, but the willingness to cook it is missing.
Yay.
I probably have the morbs plus anxiety because trying to sell Adapting is getting to me. That and the fact that I'm only halfway towards the Lappy of my
Read more »FOCUS!
Mayhem is sick at home. Throwing up. So I'm dragging him to the doctor's a little later on. Story is happening whenever because this.
On the plus side: The Gold Coin Grass is working. All the you-have-gallstones side effects are present. On the other hand, that includes vomiting which means another trip to the doctor's.
The other plus is that I now know of Ursodeoxycholic acid. [ur-so-de-ox-ee-ko-lick]which will dissolve the gallstones and bypass the need to get the gall bladder removed.
Read more »Crowded Day
Along with the usual running about, I have a shrink visit and little to show for it. Will endeavour to remember to bring the iPad so if any ideas pop out, I can start them right there.
Keep an eye out on my Instagram. If I do any art, it winds up there. Apologies in advance for my scrawly handwriting.
I also have the usual gamut of fetch quests, escort quests (aka, the Brat Run) and honedews that I swore I'd do
Read more »The wait begins
I could not recover the email that my system ate. Woe. So I rewrote it. And sent it. And now I am merely attempting to not perish from the sheer anxiety of it.
8th House, the first publisher on the block, has stated nothing about simultaneous submissions nor a turn-around time. Darn. I feel like I should wait until September before trying another publisher, repeat in October, and then lurk off the radar until February. Thus avoiding the stench of NaNo.
Nothing
Read more »Time on My Hands
Good news bad news. Good news - I don't need to fret about posting my Blasts From the Past any more. And therefore have more time in my day.
Bad news - the draft I thought I had saved of a carefully-worded and exciting pitch to a publisher vanished without a fucking trace.
I can't even get rid of the window full of the empty document. It's just. There. Unkillable. Uneditable. Unbelievable.
So yeah.
Some of my morning will be absorbed by
Read more »An End, A Beginning, A New Way
Today's the day I reach the end of my Blasts From the Past. Which means I have to find three other things to write about to keep my scores up, OR... focus intently on the one Instant and just go from there.
If I choose the latter [because lazy] I will have more time for Other Projects, which will be something of a boon.
I could also post sample chapters of whatever whenever so I can maybe entice people over to help
Read more »Almost There!
Nod to the Disney song of the same title. I have almost caught up with everything. I have almost sent off a query and sample to a publisher, bu-u-ut...
My email server decided to up and DIE. For all of yesterday. And today isn't looking so swell either.
If y'all really need to contact me about something, then get to me via nutter (no spaces) buttler (at) gmail (dot) com. That's my alternate email and -so far- no spammers have found it.
Read more »Understandably Late Start
I got a parcel in the afternoon, when I was up to my eyeballs in a fictional international misunderstanding.
By the time I had my fecal matter gathered for the afternoon, I was too wasted to go anywhere or do anything because stress can fuck your life up in unexpected ways. Huzzah.
I initially had PLNs to go when Beloved came home, or get them to drive me, but those disintegrated because of a real misunderstanding involving steak, cooking times, and a
Read more »Wednesday
It's going to be a Wordpress Wednesday and once again, I have NO CLUE what I'm going to blither about, so I might as well figure that out while I'm doing other things.
I'm good at getting distracting ideas while I should be doing other shit.
I'm also good at having a whack firkin energy schedule. Like. I can't not wake up at buttfuck o'clock in the morning any more. And then, long about 4PM, my body apparently can't let me enjoy
Read more »Tuesday
It's Patreon Day (tm) and I hope to get some different things up. For those of you following my fanfic shenanigans, I have two offerings and one may be full of squick. Approach with caution. I will add squick warnings for all things squickable.
Maybe even a squick tag. That can be a thing.
Now that I've said an invented term too many times, [urban dictionary is your friend] I can move on to other business.
The TAZ Fic Writer's Discord remains
Read more »Monday...
Once again, the week starts sideways. I'd forgotten that I'd silenced my phone so I didn't have to listen to annoying ads about games I didn't want to play whilst I was gathering fictional money in a game I did want to play. And that might have been a contributing factor to my Beloved and I missing out on the bi-election in our area. Whoops.
For those unfamiliar with mandatory voting, that's a $20 fine for each of us. We should keep
Read more »Relax Day
Beloved is off to help their mum. I am superfluous to proceedings, so I'm in my Kigu and not doing a very lot at any pace at all.
Frankly, you're lucky to get this much blog. Starting this Monday, I will be chasing myself to submit Adapting to assorted publishers depending on their needs for approval.
With any good luck, I shall get something out there on the Pro Scene(TM). And if not... there's always Smashwords and Lulu.
It will feel
Read more »YIL
That's an acronym. It's based off TIL, which stands for "Today I Learned". But since I was done with my blogging by the time I learned this, it's "Yesterday I Learned".
Yesterday, I learned that there was a disease caused by poverty and the resultant poor diet. Pellagra.
[Educational video here, summarising all that went on whilst this struck]
Anyone familiar with modern politics might recognise the Right/Conservative wing complaining about how detrimental it's going to be to give poor people
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