Alright, it's been more than a week since I last wrote, which I didn't want to happen, even if my excuse is that working 60 hours a week with 4-6 hours of sleep a night is exhausting. Even so, I've neglected my blog.
What can I share today? Well, I just got home from my writing group a little while ago, so I should have some, sadly... we're not as productive as I'd like. November is a productive month for us, and March had a slight increase, but on the whole, it's more of a "hang out with like-minded people and get creative juices moving" group, than a writing group. Even during NaNoWriMo, we didn't do much sharing of our writing. I might try to get the group there more interested in actually writing and sharing, and growing, as a group.
It may be that the group majority isn't interested (or at least serious) about getting published, and getting to the point where their creations can support them financially. That is my goal. I want (and believe I can attain) a sustainable income as an author. I've no doubt that it'll be difficult, but it's my goal. I've heard great things about having a strong writing group. I think there's the potential for that with the group I'm in, but I think we need to decided whether or not we want to reach for that. We have a diverse group, and I think that diversity could add a lot to our critiques. If you're in A Ream of Writers, and you're interested in focusing the group back on the writing and growing aspects of the group, hit me up and let's see what we can come up with.
In the mean time, I've joined an online writing group in the attempt to get some feed back. It doesn't provide quite the incentive to write as A Ream of Writers does (during Nov. anyway), but I think there's excellent potential for honing my craft, and helping others hone theirs.
As far as the writing goes, I've written a prologue for a new story, as my first submission to my new writing group. I used a fake vampire (Shampire! oh that's fun! :-P) as the antagonist. I want some uncertainty in the prologue about the existence of monsters. The character is killed at the end of the prologue, ostensibly by the monster. The problem is, that vampires really ARE over used. And the book isn't about vampires, and vampires are in fact fake in the book. Thankfully my group pointed it out to me, and I can change it to a sham-monster of a different variety.
I also realized that part of my difficulty with revising Wielding the Locket, is that I haven't finished it. There's a few things I need to do to finish. Firstly, I need solidify some of the back-stories and world rules enough that I can find the best ending. and secondly I need to just start writing it. I wrote a pseudo-ending back in December so I could share it, but it was too early for that scene, and that scene wasn't meant to be the ending.
Alright, one more thing I've learned about the Writing (or at least about it's peripheries ((peripheries was apparently not a word I learned to spell recently... thank you spellcheck)). I need a website. If I do get published, a website could be very useful for collecting and keeping readers. But even before that, a website would show publishers, editors, and agents that I'm serious about my work, and would give them a taste of who I am and what I do. So my goal for this summer is to set one up. I'll share that on here when it's ready.
Okay, I have to go critique 4 more 1k submissions for my writing group, I need to write a little of WtL. and I need to go to bed.
Random thing of note for the week: Something unexpected, but not wholly surprising, has been happening; I'm getting better at spelling. I've always been pretty bad at spelling, but I hate the red lines under my words, so I often correct it manually until I find the right spelling, and lately I've been getting fewer of those.
Also, I realize that I sometimes don't make sense, I tend to blame dyslexia (self diagnosed), but it's also fatigue that both causes it and keep me from reading and editing these. I'll start doing that in a week or two when I've caught up a little on sleep.
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