Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Lave

Well, I cleaned my desk up a bit.

As long as I'm working on a book though it won't stay clean. I always have scraps of paper lying around with notes on them that I jot down for remembering later. Though I do gather them up and put them in the story bible for better referencing, but I never quite get rid of the scraps.

I also straightened up the hand-written notes in the crate. But I know better than to start reading them. I'd go off on a tangent and never get Mortal Voice or any other book done!

My apartment is still a mess from my move. I'm slow to unpack and put away unless it has something to do with my books or food. You can see where my priorities are! :)

I'm taking a break from writing right now.


I'm in the sixth week of my online college course. I should be studying today but I took Christmas pictures of my cat and worked on Mortal Voice instead this morning. A compulsion to finish Mortal Voice is running me. I don't know why. The cover is beautiful as is the cover for the second book.

Yes, I already have a cover for the second book.

Deadly Flames and Under the Dragon's Tail will get done next year. I'm going to finish my Elemental books and start the Fallborn series. I made myself a promise to finish them and I will. Though it won't be by my Fiftieth birthday like I wanted.

Monday, November 20, 2017

To organize or not to organize

That is the question!

When I write I am very disorganized. I have things spread out all over the place. Notes and research everywhere. I hop  from one piece to another.

But I like my stuff where I can find it.

I live more in my head than in the outside world and my apartment shows it most times. I have "junk" everywhere. But since I've moved that "junk" has shrunk!

I threw away all my early attempts at writing. They were very silly and naïve. Mom only read romances but they weren't explicit and some of them were silly themselves. I threw away everything I wrote when I was a teenager except a few poems that I still had. Every time I move I lose something anyway so I decided I'll choose this time! :)

So I got one crate full of hand-written stories left besides the ones I entered into the computer. These along with the ideas that come to me should keep me busy for a long time.

I organized my reference material as well as the writing magazines I kept in a bookshelf cabinet next to my desk. When I get more material I can reorganize it, but it's adequate for now.

The crate is just stuffed with my writing ideas and chapters. No rhyme or reason. I straightened them up a bit but it's still a bit messy.

And my desk. Well, it's got stuff shoved everywhere. I need to straighten it up.

Does the state of one's surroundings impinge on one's writing?  Or can one be so absorbed in the writing that surroundings don't matter? 

To me the physical state around me doesn't matter, though sound does. I have two cds that I play when I write. If other noises come upon me I lose my concentration and train of thought.  I can have the TV on if it's a show I've already seen and I can still write, but if it's a new show I got to stop writing.

Monday, November 6, 2017

A piece of thought

I changed my main blog around a bit.

I  also changed my book link here as well and added a different graphic under the main one. The link pic is supposed to be the back of the main female character for Mortal Voice while the graphic is death's time clock.  I couldn't concentrate on anything else that day so I messed around with the blogs and did a cover for Mortal Voice.

When I get restless but am broke I get online and mess around a bit. Either by writing in the blogs or making covers for some of the books I started. I have over thirty books started on my computer so I can work on one or two and still have a lot to work with the next time I get restless.  Unfortunately I sometimes make more than one cover and have trouble deciding which one I like best. :)

 I found my computer fan so my computer is now sitting on it and shouldn't overheat. I had packed it away when I moved and forgot about it. It should keep my computer running longer.

I got the four Fallborn books' covers done. Fallborn are dragon books that are probably gonna be rated PG13 as there is no sex and the most they do is hug or hold each other. I'm thinking YA maybe? I don't know  They're set in different worlds.

I also have two dragon stories set in our world or at least a parallel world. The bond is sexual in both so... Anyway I don't have covers for them yet. I don't even have titles for them, just a few scenes.

There are two related series about time-lost people and an alien race whose descendants are coming back into their own.  I don't have covers for them yet either. It's hard to find free sci-fi pics that I like that fit the stories.

I'll look some more today for free pics. Maybe they'll have new stuff up.