I've been free writing a lot, which isn't productive short term. It does however sometimes come in handy, after all, Bootstrap colony, New Dawn, Princess Rescue Inc, and Afraid of the Dark are all a product of my 'what if' free writing, so who knows what the future may bring?
I have also been working on book 6, I've cleaned up some of the raw notes (getting rid of present tense mistakes) and I've doubled, nay tripled (okay almost) it in size. I'm still having trouble with the structure, so I may need to bug someone about it. :)
I also did a bit of pecking in "Alive" another free write what if book. It's solidifying a bit. Let's just say that.
I also blocked out one of the short stories for 13 Degrees of Separation, and I added a bit to Barkeep. :)
Edit: oops, forgot to mention, I went and started putting the pieces to 13 Degrees of Separation together into the final manuscript. I've added the 7 edited short stories, with 1 outstanding and the other 5 I'm still working on. So far the page count is 262... but I expect it to be close to 450 by the time the others are added.
My 'niece' took a hand at AD. She's been bugging me to have a go at my books for a while. I said okay. I pestered her for an update, she grumbled and growled at me. Then she said something about I have too many ellipses (...) and I ramble. She's fixing it. Um... Okay...
On the home front, dad and crew went to the memorial in New Hampshire. Dad called me at 5am this morning. (Gee, thanks dad. Fortunately for you Baby beat you by 20 minutes with my wake up call) Anyway, he said it was a quick ceremony, with about 100+ people there Saturday.
I'm not quite ready to strangle Baby for his 4am wake up calls... getting there, but not just yet. Soon though if he keeps it up for much longer. Luckily dad will be back on Thursday. Then he can stumble around like a bull in a china shop and wake me up too.
Baby is cute when he's begging for food. It's also funny to feel him trying to whack me with his tail to get me awake (he likes to tickle with it too... and don't get me started on the cold nose!) ... but it's really funny when I'm all sweaty. (hot night Friday) He got all pissy when his tail stuck (he had to tug it off) and then he has to go clean it. :D lol The disgusted look as he sat there cleaning it made my morning. :)
He's also a ball when he's hyper, he may be an old man, but that hasn't stopped him. He's been full of piss and vinegar all morning.
Usually you can set your clock by him, early in the morning, and around 8pm each night, the hyper train comes roaring through, all arched back, curled tail, eyes dilated and full of mischief, running all over the place... The sound FX he does are priceless. (think Chomps) lol
And then of course there is the duo together:
You gotta love that haughty expression. :)
Oh! I added scene transitions to all the books, those out, and those coming out. I also cleaned up some errors I found and some that Amazon's new Auto-spellcheck feature pointed out. That's a nifty thing.
If you see this:
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That's my version of a scene transition.
I was going a bit squirrely near the end. (it's easy but tedious to do) Oh, if you notice the TOC (Table Of Contents) and links are messed up, that's because I did the fixes in Open Office since I don't have Word anymore. I need to deal with that later.
Also, I ordered a TV stick. Or box. The G-box midnight MX2.
This looks like a winner, but I'll know more when it comes in later today. I'm going to have fun playing with it. (I hope)
It's not just for fun, it's also so the family can finally Skype with family back east here on holidays and special occasions... and so I can do some research. (yes, I did say that) You'll know why when you read... um, telegraphing... sorry Rich. :)
Anyway, I'll have fun until Thursday when Edison shuts my power off all day for an upgrade to the system. ALL DAY. When it's supposed to be 96 out. Joy. It's going to be a hot week, more of the 100's for days and days.... ugh.
Seriously. I am so going to be climbing the walls right along side BABY! :P
that g-box looks like a nice item, i made my htpc out of a raspberry pi
ReplyDeleteCannot wait til the next one comes out.
I tried to answer on the box, but I have a ways to go before I can figure out some of the bugs.
ReplyDeleteIt's cool in some ways. Disappointing in others. I bumped into a lot of display problems, where it kept resetting the display, navigational errors, and I found a lot of unsupported file formats on Youtube and on the web. That's annoying, I was hoping to use it to watch Defiance, Falling Skies, Revolution, CSI, and other shows on my big screen TV.
Any news from your last guy on plague planet?
ReplyDeleteThe last guy is a gal, my 'niece'. She's an English lit major off for the summer and she insisted on having a go at it and the other books. She hasn't been very forthcoming on her progress though. I do know she is still in AD, and hasn't finished it and moved on to PP yet. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteHopefully the extra polish will be worth the added wait.