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Holiday Weekend

02 Sunday Jul 2017

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This weekend is going to prove to be a loud one. It already has been, truthfully. Last night, there were a ton of fireworks going off even though there is still some time before the 4th. I don’t mind them over all, so long as they’re not from the neighbors coming into my yard, but my cats don’t particularly like them or know what to do with the sounds and scares they get from the super loud noise. I expect that they will only get worse as we head toward the 4th.

Over all, my whole plan for this Holiday weekend is to try and relax some, get some reading in, and of course, getting some writing done. Camp started yesterday, after all. And Camp is all about writing. Getting those words on the page is my goal. And it shall happen. I believe in myself.

I also ended up finding a used online bookstore. So I might do a bookhaul blog once they all come in. And hopefully after some quick reads, they’re all cozy mysteries, get a couple reviews up on here. Reading and writing! It’s important for days off!

Though, tomorrow I do have half a day of work. But it’s better than a full day I guess.

How are you spending your 4th of July weekend? Do you have Monday off?

Photo by Mike Enerio on Unsplash

 

Back from the Wilderness

14 Wednesday Aug 2013

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It’s oddly nice sometimes to get offline, hang out with friends, and just… relax unplugged. Well, I was a little plugged in until my best friend joined me out in the woods for the festival last week, but that can’t be helped when my smartphone gets better internet service than cell service out in the middle of no where. But the crux of it was, it was nice to be unplugged for a while.

Get back with nature, just have some good time with friends, campfires, and some crafts. And when there’s time, get back with the old pen and paper and just… get to the essence of writing without all the distractions from the internet that can crop up. Seriously, writing with a computer that has online capabilities is sometimes like ordering a new ebook from Amazon. I go for the free book, but suddenly, ten bucks later, I have a small arsenal of new reads and I’m going ‘no, get me off here!’. 

Can you tell I have a very ‘Oh! Shiny!’ kind of personality? Heh. I tend to get distracted easily if I’m not careful, and even sometimes when I am careful.

This week is a get back into the swing of going to work kind of week over all. Though I’m hoping that I can get back into the swing of writing as well. As per my friend’s suggestion, I need to see about putting aside one hour to write a day so even if I don’t get the thousand word (or more) goal, at least I am getting some words out. And in that hour I won’t do things like play on tumblr or poke around on facebook. Dedicated purely to writing. I want my Fae story out, damnit.

And in other news this week, hopefully the anthology I’m part of will be released Friday, fingers crossed at least.

And did I mention that while at the camping trip, a friend of mine said that she would help me to figure out how to format a word document so it’s all ready to self publish at create space? Because I really am seriously thinking of doing some shorter, novella length works for kindle/create space while my novel is being pushed at some big publishing companies. At least, that’s what I’m hoping for, for this Fae novel of mine. Big house publishing company. Hopefully it’s got enough potential and punch for that.

An Almost New Start

08 Monday Jul 2013

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My weekend was… well interesting. We got out to the trailer and I was able to do a massive amount less than I wanted to. Usually the schedule is we get out, mow the grass so there are less mosquitoes, dust and clean the trailer a little, put beds together, and just… rest. Which usually involves a movie after dinner and then me retiring to my section of the trailer to read/write/play Animal Crossing/etc.

That’s not exactly how it went down when we got there.  For starters our canopy ended up bulging and stretching because it caught water and just kept it instead of letting the water slide right off. But most importantly, there was a tree down over our back fence. Thankfully it missed both the storage shed and our canopy. The owner mentioned it to us when we stopped in before heading back to our spot, and had mentioned that she’d have guys out there to get it done that weekend sometime. Well, needless to say my parents couldn’t just let it sit. We spent most of Friday afternoon/night trimming all the smaller branches off of it and settling them into a pile that the owner could haul away and then thanks to our neighbor loaning a small electric chain saw, we ended up cutting a good chunk of it back, almost to the fence. Which, while we did end up doing the work the owner was supposed to do, we got some good firewood out of it. Not that it’ll be useable until next year, but firewood.

And once that was done, and we sweet talked our neighbors into mowing for us later that weekend so we could leave, we went home. And then spent that afternoon sprawled and lounging at the house because zomg tired from being up since 6am Sat morning. And Sunday wasn’t any better. Though I did figure out approximately how far I’m behind on my word count. And the numbers ain’t pretty.

My original goal was about 667 a day. Averaging that up to 700 words a day, I should have had 18900 by today done.  I have 2000. See what I mean about not pretty? My goal, starting today, is to average between 700 and 2000 words a day so that come July 31 I’ll be caught up.

And that offer to accept prompts to get more juices flowing in the original work direction still stands.