Reading and Writing, October 11

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This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

So this morning was one of those mornings where feeling weird and what-have-you, I skipped straight past anything I ought to do and went and read Beneath Ceaseless Skies on my morning work break. It's a double issue. Then I dug through my email and dug up Laurie's story instead of waiting until I was at home this weekend where I already have it saved.

When I feel weird, I read. That's me. When I hurt, I fanfic or write an angsty poem. Otherwise, I write. I wonder what that says about how often I feel weird.

So I finished Laurie's story. Awesomeness. Then I finished editing all 13,574 words of story from inferno goodness—which I only say because it's done. Unfinished stories are not good. They taunt and tease and bother me. This is the first novelette I've written ever. Now, of course, I want to typeset it and publish it, which requires getting a Rachelle-worthy cover which makes me need to buy a stock photo I don't have, which would imply the need for a Kickstarter-type campaign, but this is micro-funding on a micro, micro, micro scale, so…

Thinking.

Maybe I ought to write. Hm. Nope, first I read through the ficlets from thecatisacritic. I'm glad too. I'm still not all that settled down for writing.

Talking with the beta yesterday about maybe doing Nano, which would mean picking a story for it. I'm all over the map on what I'd want to do: Collateral Damage, the Seven Days book, or something in Vardin, or seriously, Lovemark the Seasons. So yeah, on the fence there.

I edited and finalized a story. I'll write more this weekend. Bad me, but it's Friday, so no after-work scribble-time was available anyway.

Count

• Total Fiction: 0 words - Month to Date: 13,881 words
• Total Blog: 291 words - Month to Date: 5,495 words

Finalized Pieces

• "Dowse and Bleed," Kingdoms and Thorn, 13,574 words

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Comments

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

I can't do implication. I have to know that it's not one of those things that bothers my conscience, or I won't go forward with it. Granted, my lines are convoluted, but I also have that line about stumbling someone else in the back of my mind, too, and I just can't be less than clear in what I write and what I read.

I don't think I'd like that world very much for that reason as well: I am a person who likes to read about people I care about. The world is never as interesting to me as the people in it, so I don't think I'd enjoy one that doesn't have that connection.

I read the blurb about Faeology, and I thought about it, but I couldn't read it with them calling it magic.

So, yeah, stuck with those two, I guess.