xtremeroswellia: (Chlean: staring at each other)
I think I'm officially totally and completely sucked back into the SPN/SV verse fanfic-wise. *glares at [livejournal.com profile] did_it_once. All your fault. :P I haven't had a whole lot of free time to read and review, but I will get to you all very soon!

I have this obsessive urge to redo my LJ. Again. Oy. Why can't I just be happy with it?

I'm rehooked on Anna Nalick's CD, Wreck of the Day. Speaking of whom, has a new song out called Shine, which I really really really like a lot. Is she about to put out a new CD? Cause that'd be really awesome.

In one week I will be on the witness stand in that criminal trial and I am trying not to think about it too much else I'll flip the hell out. Sedatives will be taken the night before.

I think I'm coming down with something--because my throat has been hurting for four days, my tonsils are swollen and I have a headache from hell that will not go away.

My new original story (the prologue and chapter one) is being reviewed at the Write Stuff meeting tomorrow so I'm a little anxious about that. Wish me luck.

Oh, and I'm re-addicted to the Sims 2. Dean, Chloe and Little John (Sam and Jessica's son in my game) were all three abducted by aliens yesterday. O.o In all the times I've played Sims, none of my people have been abducted. Ever. And then THREE in five minutes? WTH? And I'm almost as addicted to Mod the Sims 2 as I am the actual game. What's wrong with this picture? *scratches head*
xtremeroswellia: (Me and Bozzie)
So...I've started working on a new original writing project. What I think may be a young adult novel eventually. I actually handed out the prologue and chapter one to my writer's critique group tonight.

Honestly I think it's the first non-sucky thing I've written in...well, years. I haven't been happy with my solo writing for a long time now--since high school actually. But I think this isn't so bad.

I'm also kinda stuck on it. But on the drive home as I was talking to myself about it (and being nervous because I haven't had a face-to-face writing critique since I was like, 22...) I think I may have solved my problem. I think. Maybe.

How disturbing would you (any of you) find it to have the first chapter about one character and the next about the second, and the third about the first character and so on and so forth? I haven't read TOO many books that switch POV's like that, especially in the young adult genre, so I'm not quite sure if that's really okay.

Thoughts?

*giggles*

Feb. 2nd, 2007 09:23 pm
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The writing went well today. Very well, in fact. So well I'm pretty sure I don't have to do an entire rewrite after all. Things definitely need tweeking, but I think most of what I've done will be salvagable. Draft one is getting closer to completion.

And I just got off the phone with one of the women from the writing group I used to be in. Four of us quit at about the same time and I asked her if she was interested in starting another small group and she laughed and said it was weird I called because she'd just been thinking about that today! LOL. Gotta love synchronicity.

So...

Sep. 3rd, 2006 09:35 pm
xtremeroswellia: (One night with Dean)
I went to the annual Library Labor Day book sale today. Bought 24 books and four CDs for $17.50. Not bad if I say so myself. But that's beside the point...

I ran into three other former members of the writing critique group I belonged to in high school and college. Debby, Linda, and Mindy--all women ranging from probably 40's to 60's. Linda has had one children's book published and she referenced her "ONE book." Mindy didn't really talk about her own writing, but Debby said she'd basically stopped because she just didn't have time.

I don't wanna be like that. Linda sounded bitter, and Debby just sounds like she gave up. I wanted to ask Debby so badly if she feels only half-alive without writing, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It's such a personal question.

But I'm not ready to quit. I'm not ready to give up this thing I've wanted so long. So yeah...maybe I'm more cynical than I use to be and maybe I have a lot of doubts and little faith. But I haven't quit.

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