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Six Months Online

Hydy — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:49:51 +0000

In a couple days, this blog will have been live for six months. So, what does everyone think? Do you like it? Do you hate it? Is it fun? Boring? What more could you ask for? What am I missing? Please, leave comments, send me messages, let me know what you think.

In just the past week, May 9th, 1999 was rejected by Strange Horizons; Crow Spirit was rejected by Chiaroscuro; and Dream Child was rejected by Interzone. Yesterday I submitted May 9th, 1999 to Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. Today I’m mailing out Dream Child to L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest and The Albino to Black Static.

Plots and plans for a less personal, more community-based readers and writers website are spiraling in my head, waiting to come rushing out onto the web. Thoughts, suggestions, and comments on that are also welcome.

Blogs, Writing and Books

Hydy — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:28:08 +0000

So I’m on my third book about creating a successful blog now. I’ve got lots of little bookmarks in the first two. I’ve learned a lot and I’m still learning. I don’t know where it’s going to take me, but I have a better picture now of what I’m looking at. I have a lot of planning to do.

I did the 30 minutes of fiction a day for about three weeks until I realized that, while not entirely pointless, it was getting me nowhere. I was writing, sure, but I wasn’t creating or communicating. If I’m going to write every day, it ought to be something meaningful at the least, and towards a goal at the best. It felt more like I was doing it because I “should” and not because it was what I Wanted to do.

This poem by Bukowski is taped by my desk and it keeps coming to mind.

Yesterday, I found the first three books of the Spellsinger series by Alan Dean Foster at Half Price Books, they were only $1.48 a piece, so I own them once again! This makes me very happy. I don’t remember how many there are, or what happened to my previous copies, but it was a great find for me.

Had to send an extra copy of my Grant submission package because I somehow only sent three instead of four, but that’s taken care of now. Found a few more places to possibly submit work. Now to create more work.

Narrative done and ideas flowing

Hydy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:05:05 +0000

I just finished composing my narrative for the OAC Individual Excellence Award application. A few days later than I had hoped, but it is done and I believe it is strong. Now to compile my materials and submit the application. I’ll be giving the narrative one last look over before I attach it to my online application. I’m very excited to set this in motion.

On August 1st, I started writing my 30 Minutes of Fiction using the Moleskine journal Gale sent me for my birthday. I’ve been writing on my lunch breaks at work, having my food on my first break to give me the full 30 minutes to write.

I am also plotting more ideas about the new site I was thinking of the other night. My blogging books have arrived to give me ideas. I am considering also including weekly sets of links to things like genre specific markets, publishers, resources, contests, references. It also came to mind, as part of a possible affiliate program, to have a page for books I’ve read, write reviews and have links to where people can buy them.

Stalled

Hydy — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:28:22 +0000

Other things have gotten in the way again. Life, stress, the universe. I’m still working on my narrative, but slowly, I need to focus. The short story I’d started has gone nowhere. I’ve posted a poem by Bukowski on my wall beside my desk about writing. Rich’s researched some netbooks for me. I’ve found some interesting resources on blogging and making money on the internet, but I’m still trying to sort it all out, and looking at maybe getting a few books. But I haven’t been very productive lately. Need to focus.