Category: self introspection

Saturday Thoughts

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.

So, You may have noticed the change in the word accounting. There are a couple of reasons for it. I am no longer going to use OneNote. They betrayed me in the worst way. I finished I am Nobody only to find that OneNote had literally destroyed 6 of the poems. Instead of my poem I saw the image below. The only way to fix this is to reset the cache on OneNote to a previous date. That would erase more writing. I am not doing it. I have been doing a lot of writing recently and do not wish to loose any of it. OneNote is also not convenient for backups.

So I am switching my notebooks app again. This is an open source program that is available across multiple platforms. The plan I will be getting costs the same monthly as OneNote did. However, it got me thinking about the way I do things. I can schedule regular backups for things to return a measure of safety to my writing. I still wanted to make this work. The Blog only is able to stay stable for me because it is not a hard thing to maintain. I stay busy and do not want extra work if I can help it. So, I had this put together. It has its home in my Google Drive and I can still update as I write. I can take the image for the blog. This fills that hole nicely. It also happens to be a pretty thing. Not always was my screenshots pretty.

Amazon has started reinforcing limits on the weekly uploads. So I am struggling to get all of the planned books up for Kid’s week. (Good thing I started so soon). There will be me fighting with Kid’s week up to and likely past the wire. All but one are available from Draft2digital and are on our Books2read catalog. The one will be up before the weekend ends I hope. This year has quite a few offerings. All great options.

So, Because I finished I am Nobody… I will have Decaying Thoughts and I am Nobody (Both of course by Patricia) releasing among our Poetry month releases in April. I believe Serena may have two to release then as well too. Since I made an Oops last year and failed to publish her The Crypt’s Secrets, it is releasing in November. I really thought I had already published that, but as I was sick when she finished it I am unsurprised. Oh, well. It will still fly into the world.

I am hoping that this new app will bring some of the muse with it. We will see.

Saturday Thoughts

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.

so…I am hip deep in preparation for kids week releases…and the doctor decided that I needed a shingles vaccine. I spent Tuesday evening through Thursday night asleep. I awoke Thursday with a migraine and feeling like death. and I get to do it again in January. yay.

I am running behind due to the sleep. so I will be probably doing another serenity art corner tomorrow…also I will be announcing something special in November.

Saturday Thoughts

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.

This is a busy time for me due to Fae Corps Publishing. Anthologies and getting ready for kids week. Serena has a volume I thought I had published already that will be releasing on November 14. The Crypt’s Secrets got a minor delay because I was sick when I finished writing it. It is back on track and available to pre-order.

I am currently working on putting together the Kids week anthology. I will be making this a yearly thing. The spring anthology call has been released for those who are interested.

Tuesday tunes will likely make a return this week. I will do a gallery post for drawtober on Thursday.

Saturday Thoughts

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.

This week was more computer mess. The long story short of it is my boyfriend pulled my old computer (1060 graphics card and all) out, dusted it off and got it running until we can replace the parts for the newer one.

I have a new writing friend Jacob. His feedback got a couple of the things moving forward. I also went on a spurt and finished Decaying Thoughts. It will be out in April.

This is a busy time for me due to Fae Corps Publishing. Anthologies and getting ready for kids week. So I didn’t get to start Drawtober on time. I plan on getting caught up tomorrow. that means you might see Serenity’s Art corner on Tuesday instead of the usual stuff.

Saturday Thoughts

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.

This week was more computer mess. my cpu needs to be replaced.

depression has had me crashing more than usual. Even though I have access to my boyfriend’s computer it is not the same as having my own. His is set up for games and my own was set up for desktop publishing as well.

He said that he doesn’t mind me installing what I need…but that is several programs and fonts just to be able to do my work. so I have guilt.

Saturday Thoughts

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.

This week was more computer mess.

It has also been flying by.

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.

This week has been a flat mess. I updated windows because it wanted me to…only to have it bork my desktop. Yes I have a laptop that I can do work on…but it is old as hell and it does not have my current files. And guess who has been lax about backing up the last two weeks?? Yeah so it is my own fault. Still, Joe is trying to save my files. I should know by later today if I have to repeat two weeks worth of publishing work.

Thankfully it is not impossible. Just a pain. I plan to switch OS to Linux. The only reason I have stuck to Windows so long is many of my games do not like Linux. I have switched to freeware or open source a long time ago to make using Linux on my laptop easier. I am wanting to try Bazzite. I have Mint on my Laptop. (yeah I am a computer geek. lol)

The stress of my computer going down has the insomnia back.

Joe has been kind enough to let me use his computer. That has kept me able to do. I got Serena’s Kid’s week book set up. I also got one of mine. I am hoping that all the lovely kid’s books I wrote last year while I was so sick I will be able to get set up and ready for kid’s week. This years offerings are already shaping up to be amazing. We have at least one more in the Odd Sock Series by Michelle Caine and one by Andrew McDowell that is just adorable. I know at least one other author is attempting to meet the deadline…plus the children’s anthology.

Adding in Serena’s and at least two maybe four from me… we will have a delightful lineup.

I wish I could say I have been stress writing this week.,.. My mind has been bouncing due to wondering how much work I have ahead of me. So I got some writing in, and some art…but as is the way of such things… Not near the amount I would have liked.

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.

I am surprised that I managed so much. Between editing, book formatting, and everything around me breaking…been a bad week for appliances here.

Fae corps is doing a kids week anthology this year….I am going to be busy for the next few months. Just as the pirate ones release the kids one and all the kids books will be coming together. I wanted to do Drawtober this year as well. I don’t know if I will be able to. I am going try though. That means I might be posting more art next month.

Saturday Thoughts

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work-in-progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.

I got quite a bit written this week.

Next week I am not expecting to do as well. This is going to be a busy publishing week for me. I am putting together two anthologies (Across the Stolen Seas is being split), doing the editing for that… Then I have to double-check my September links. (including Andrew McDowell’s Years’ worth of Thoughts and my own Kissed by Verse) and work on my October books. (which will include Serena’s Stacked Nightmares.) So squeezing in time to write may be difficult.

Also, I decided to give my romance Pen Name a whirl, as I have a couple of romance stories that have been needing to be written. So much like Serena’s Stacked Nightmares, Heaven’s Forgotten Tales, and Apocalypse Atheneum…I started a book for her to write in. Meet Alchemy by Susan Ann Andrews. (That is my originally planned pen name when I was nine and wanting to be an author.)

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.

the numbers say that I have written – but admittedly this week is a bit of a blur. I believe that I blinked.