Getting back on track... again :D

Okay lol I know I've said it before, but I'm endeavoring again to make weekly posting here a reality.
New developments on Vala's story: I've been working on the second book of her series, getting it formatted and such. I promise... before December of this year, I will get the second book out. On the first book, I'm going to retire the printed version currently available on Lulu.com and realize another edition after I do some stuff.
While I admit that I haven't gone looking yet, I'd be really appreciative if someone can point me in the direction of Marilyn Manson's manager, if such a person exists. I really want to give him a copy of Vala's story because I think he's one person who can definitely appreciate my writing style. Tnx

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Christine

Ackkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!

I really gotta make posting a regular part of my days :D. Well here I am again, after quite awhile of note posting. Tons of things have been happening in my life, both writing and non-writing related. I just finished the first draft of a story related to Vala's story. I spent a few minutes feeling lost, not sure what to work on, when I remembered that the second book needs work, minor editing, then formatting for publishing on Lulu. I then realized I'd made a major detail mistake that's going to require a major rewriting. Hopefully my beta reader is up for some reading when she gets back from vacation :D

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Christine

Hey there

Sorry it's been awhile. I promise to post in more length shortly, and get Vala to do so as well on her blog. This morning I hit 50500 words, surpassing the J-WAT challenge. I'm trying catch up on some reading & cleaning now
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christine

It's time for J-WAT!

Yeah! I love J-WAT. Even though I can't post my erotica on the iVillage boards, I still do love to talk with the other writers there. Well in July, we do the J-WAT writing challenge. Like NaNoWriMo, our goal is to write 50000 words. If I remember right, we started doing J-WAT because so maybe members had stuff going on in their lives that made NaNoWriMo impossible. I'll be taking part of both of course lol. I figured out I need to write a minimum of 1613 words a day to make it to 50000 before August 1. Last night, I thought I'd made it then I added my numbers and found I was 22 words short. I went back to the scene, even though I was tired, and wrote another 109 words :). Hoping to do even better today.
http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-bcafter/ If you're interested in J-WAT, here's the link to the board. If you're not an iVillage member, it takes only a minute to join. It is a "women's channel" however a handful of men are members.
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christine

woohoo!!!

Writing's going again :). After the stress, the upset over thinking I'd lost everything I'd written in week 11 and everything getting fixed, I'm really writing again. Since finding box.net, AbiWord, & editgrid.com the words have been pouring. I've written 7641 words since the 14th, although I haven't been managing to write every day. It was real nice just now being able to go over to editgrid.com and look at my spreadsheet. I don't think I'll be looking at my writing files from box.net :D on the computer's library though :D
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christine

I'm really still here

Wow! It has been a long, long time since I posted. Sorry about that. Things around the apartment have been rather stressful. June 6th, my computer crashed and I'd been a naughty girl, not backing up my writing like I should. First thing I found out was that I hadn't backed up the 48+ pages I'd written in "11th week.rtf"... to say the least I was majorly freaking out and not useful for much. Well a friend's fiancee was able to get all my writing and a bunch of other things off my hard drives for me and said that, in the future when I get a new computer, both of the hard drives are working just fine so I'll be able to get anything he didn't get for me then. I've gotten used to a mixture of youtube and yahoo launchcast radio so I'm not missing my mp3s too much. On the writing front I've found/was recommended to 3 different things: AbiWord is what I'm using for a wordprocessor as it's an open source program and my Master's computer only has Word/Notepads ack!, Editgrid for my daily word count spreadsheet since His old pc is also without Excel, and Box.net for back up storage as His pc has just 26% free space. I'm still looking for a free online or open source program for making organizational diagrams of the stable. MS Paint works, but it's too clumsy and takes forever. I had been using MS Powerpoint to construct them, but alas, His pc also doesn't have that program.
Nothing new on the Lulu.com publishing end. Out of the Night: Book One of Vala's Story is available in ebook but not yet paperback. I hope to change that soon, but I can't give a prospective date on that or when the second book will come out. Remember, to buy the ebook you must be logged in with your access level set to mature to even see the book's page, let alone to buy it. As irritating as it may seem, that's the most protection I can give myself to prevent minors from buying my book online.
Well I need to be off. More writing to do and I'm sure Vala has something to say :D
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christine

ACK!!!

I wish I could say I'm getting all sorts of writing/editing done on the story and that's why I haven't been posting, but I've been all over. Life stresses that had nothing to do with writing have been pillling up, distracting me from my writing. It looks like I may be able to get the paperback version of "Out of the Night: Book 1 of Vala's Story" out within 2 to 3 months, I'm hoping. It's been a bit surprising, disappointing that there haven't been any sales of the ebook so far. At least I didn't expect anything to happen overnight. Maybe I can get to a sci-fi con soon :D
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christine