Hello all!
I had a bit of a mishap this month as my overworked laptop suddenly began convulsing and entered into it's pathetic and horrifying death throes that involved the inability to go back to any restore point...good news is, I was able to get the help of my techno-wizard friend Josh Slay [best last name ever? I think so...] and he managed to save all of my files before wiping the drive and handing me a shiny, dumb sponge of a laptop back. I've spent the last few days after work re-installing all of my programs and copying and arranging all of my files according to my fastidious system - really my computer is SO much neater than all of my stacks of paper copies...really...
So after this unfortunate setback, I really can't waste anymore time in pumping out Thistletorn if I'm going to publish it by my very real and very necessary due date. There is a rhyme and a reason to why this must be done...it revolves around a plot...a very devious plot that I will eventually explain but for now you can rest assured that it involves the Mythical Man Beast.
I'm going to be walking an incredibly fine line in the next few months because I have to balance work, stress, writing, and the wonderful flying back and forth between here and CT to visit the Mythical Man Beast for much needed couple time. We've started visiting one another once a month so I'm going to be out of commission for any writing for roughly 5 days every month....gah....
Well, I know what I'm doing this weekend....going to a comedy show? Well, yeah but that's for a birthday. I swear. Comedy show aside, I'm going to spend the entire weekend writing and trying to get my ass in gear.
In other news! A very good friend of mine and videographer, Alex Gonzalez, is going to be interviewing/filming me for a trailer for Thistletorn! Whoohoo! We probably won't have it done until March but I'll let you know how it goes!
Well, I am off to the land of Nod...as I have a job to get to in the morning. *sigh* I keep telling myself it's paying the bills but some days it just doesn't cut the mustard.
~The Employed with Drudgery
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Thistletorn : Up Through Chapter 4 & "Resolutions"
Hello all!
It has been another couple of months since I'd posted anything on my blog and I wanted to let you all know that I still live. A lot of things happened the past few months - including the Mythical Man Beast flying all the way out here to give me cake on my birthday as a birthday surprise - and Thistletorn has sort of fallen by the wayside.
That will no longer be the case!
I have set myself a deadline for completing and editing Thistletorn and a general date around which I will publish it for all to read! Suffice to say that I should be publishing Thistletorn before the 1 year anniversary of Thistledown.
I have nearly completed Chapter 4 of Thistletorn and since the New Years, I have begun working on my author website! I should hopefully have that up and running in about a week's time.
I wasn't entirely a bump on a log over the past few months. Indeed, I even came up with some serious plot points for the entire A Golden Afternoon series that will make you love me and hate me...[evil grin].
Also! The cover art for Thistetorn is currently in the works and I will blog it when it is completed!
On that note, I should tell you that instead of New Years "Resolutions" I have given myself New Years "Goals" as resolutions are only really useful for the resolute and goals give one more leeway and maneuverability. The whole idiom of "quit slackin' and make shit happen" is, in essence, my goal for the year. I have a lot I wish to complete this year - helping the Mythical Man Beast move out here, do some traveling, publish Thistletorn, complete The Welkinbane and send it off to a publishing house I've looked at... the list goes on. And I have done my best so far in the New Year, in order to set myself up for success. So here we are!
I hope that your New Years goals are bright and shiny and completely attainable so long as you don't consider them resolutions! May 2014 be a successful year to you!
~The Absurdly Optimistic
It has been another couple of months since I'd posted anything on my blog and I wanted to let you all know that I still live. A lot of things happened the past few months - including the Mythical Man Beast flying all the way out here to give me cake on my birthday as a birthday surprise - and Thistletorn has sort of fallen by the wayside.
That will no longer be the case!
I have set myself a deadline for completing and editing Thistletorn and a general date around which I will publish it for all to read! Suffice to say that I should be publishing Thistletorn before the 1 year anniversary of Thistledown.
I have nearly completed Chapter 4 of Thistletorn and since the New Years, I have begun working on my author website! I should hopefully have that up and running in about a week's time.
I wasn't entirely a bump on a log over the past few months. Indeed, I even came up with some serious plot points for the entire A Golden Afternoon series that will make you love me and hate me...[evil grin].
Also! The cover art for Thistetorn is currently in the works and I will blog it when it is completed!
On that note, I should tell you that instead of New Years "Resolutions" I have given myself New Years "Goals" as resolutions are only really useful for the resolute and goals give one more leeway and maneuverability. The whole idiom of "quit slackin' and make shit happen" is, in essence, my goal for the year. I have a lot I wish to complete this year - helping the Mythical Man Beast move out here, do some traveling, publish Thistletorn, complete The Welkinbane and send it off to a publishing house I've looked at... the list goes on. And I have done my best so far in the New Year, in order to set myself up for success. So here we are!
I hope that your New Years goals are bright and shiny and completely attainable so long as you don't consider them resolutions! May 2014 be a successful year to you!
~The Absurdly Optimistic
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