A Variety of October Updates
A variety of updates for mid-October, with a bit of space piracy thrown in
editing
Camp Nano 2019: Endgame
Final stretch, and I have no idea what the plot is, but that’s never stopped me before
So How Goes Trying To Get Published, Victoria: Set-backs
I went to sleep on the Tuesday with a solid schedule, a working plan, and woke up on Wednesday to disarray
Editing Level-Up
If editing was an RPG I’d be still in leather armour and fighting dire rats.
Good Pain
Getting back a lot of beta-reading comments can be discouraging enough, but it’s nothing like opening up a “finished” story that you’ve edited/workshopped until your eyes bled only to find it’s a yarn-basket of Word comments.
Procrastination
What do you do when you want to do anything else but your priority?
The taste gap
“It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
Meringues as Metaphors
A few summers ago, cutie and I were cat-sitting for friends, friends who a) had a much bigger place and b) encouraged us to have people over. So we decided to hold a dessert buffet. How hard could it be?
Editing Is Hard, updated
Editing is always so much slower than I expect it to be.
Edits-as-Workshops
Partly because I don’t enjoy editing I am always looking out for ways to work smarter, not harder.