Rambling On Writing.

Sometimes I have to wonder about my own mind...  when the lines between the stories in my head and the real world sometimes blur... and why my family still put up with me. I've been with my hubs for over ten years. Yet, in the last 5 years since I started taking my writing seriously the poor guy very rarely gets called by his own name. while writing the first Lines of Marsden book he became Christian and in the current one he's answering to Doyle. All I can say is thank God the guy loves me.

He's gone by many names... Christian, Doyle, Kayne, Ren, Knox, Dalar, Liam, Charlie, Damon, Kylfa, Jericho, and so on and so forth - that I thought maybe I should pay him homage and say - that in fact his real name is Steve. In the beginning some people thought I was having an affair, and my dear sweet Hubs says, "Nah, she writes gay porn." I'd just like to point out that I do not, nor have I ever written porn - I write M/M Romance.

Now that I've gotten that out of the way I will talk about what my plans are... 

1. The Lines of Marsden: Living in Shadows is on the final read through before I submit it to MLR... 
2. I'm up to date on my writing time lines for - The Lines of Marsden: You Make Me Die In Pieces - Lancaster's Way: A Different Way Of Seeing - Preternatural High: Welcome To My World. (Still trying to get as much done as possible before I get more edits on Experimentals: Blessed With A Curse - Windblown Kisses: My Knight In Tarnished Armour - By The Way).
3. Decided that for NaNoWriMo this year I will work on two novella's instead of one story. I'm thinking they'll be - Toowoomba Boys: Dancing With Demons - The Soul Guardians: Loving Callum McKenzie. So I have set them aside so I don't work on them until November.
4. I've just ordered swag for OzmmMeet in Sydney this year - I think Em's picking it up today from the post office.
5. Also planning on not letting people use the office for a dumping ground for what gets left on the kitchen bench... I've set up a tray for the stuff and if no one claims the stuff within a week then Mr Wheelie Bin gets to keep it. I finally have the place set up how I want it, and I don't need no bad cluttered mojo in my space. It's bad enough I own a cluttered mind let alone it spilling over into my office.

The only thing I need for all this to work is coffee and lots of it... I'm also trying to stick to my - shut down the computer by 2pm each day... so far in the last 6 months I've only broken that rule twice... and I'm also sticking to having - one day each weekend where I don't get on the computer at all... that one's harder to stick to.

So It Begins...Again.

Well, I ended one story and started right into the next three... there's a method to my madness - I swear. I'm merely trying to get as much writing done as I can before I get hit with edits on the three I've already subbed and got contracts for.

Yeah, I'll probably be running on lack of sleep for awhile... So I may be rambling on here a lot. But hey, I figure it's my blog so I can. I know, I know, you already know I've a tendency to ramble & rant - Gives a whole new meaning to R & R now doesn't it?

Next three in the writing line.

The Lines of Marsden: You Make Me Die In Pieces

Lancaster's Way: A Different Way Of Seeing

Preternatural High: Welcome To My World (YA)

Done!!!

Today I finished and sent the last 5 chapters of The Lines of Marsden: Living In Shadows to James A my beta reader. To work his magic and fix all my punctuation fuck-ups... and we all know how much I suck at punctuation. Strangely, now that it's done I feel empty.

I'm not sure what to do next, though, I think I promised Deb I'd finish Lancaster's Way: A Different Way Of Seeing... So I've pulled out all my notes to see where I'm at where that story is concerned.

And I'll also continue writing in long hand the next in The Lines Of Marsden series You Make Me Die In Pieces. While the story line is still fresh in my mind, I want to get some of it down on paper.

Feeling Sick... & Other News.

Well, it has been one of those weeks where everything just seemed to go own the crapper. My dull and incessant headache turned into a full blown migraine... So that ruled out working on the computer because I couldn't stand looking at the backlit screen.

Then my hubs comes home after being away for a week to tell me he is going to be heading out again tomorrow for a 3 week stint out at Roma & Chinchilla. which thinking about it is kind of a good thing because he has a cold and I definitely don't want that. But this morning he did build me a book stand/holder so I can read my long hand notes as I type them up... It is rough as guts but it is awesome...Now I know why I love the guy so much.

Brain Farts...

Today has been one of those days... where all by brain does is fart, and I can't get anything substantial done. I had so much to do, and yet the day is half over, and I'm nowhere near finishing the list of jobs I have to do. I'm blaming it on the stupid headache I have that just won't quit.

The only thing I've done that can even been considered good, is worked on The Lines Of Marsden: Living in Shadows. though I still have the last scene to write in the book, but I'm typing it all up as fast as I can. I am hoping to get it done before I get hit with edits from Windblown Kisses: My Knight In Tarnished Armour and Experimentals: Blessed With A Curse.

Chaotic Confusion...

 Have you ever wished for a better filing system in your head? I swear-to-God some days my brain gets set on overload and does slow down for weeks at a time. 

What set this topic off ? well I spent the better part of yesterday trying to figure out a guys last name in The Lines Of Marsden series only to realise the guy was in a completely different series. I think I may have to do up a character list and what story they belong to so I don't waste all that time again. In case you're wondering it was Ian O'Hare from Experimentals: Blessed With A Curse. 

For the last couple of days I've had a bitch of a headache that just won't go away and is driving me insane. I feel like I have the hangover from hell, and I don't even drink. Or, I should say I haven't in years, but that's a whole other story, and we just won't go there.

Tough Weekend...

well Sunday and Monday were my official weekend this week; and Sunday I finally managed to get the books all transferred to the library. I even got most of them up on the shelves. Plus I have all the CDs in place..

Monday, I finished putting up the print books. I can't wait for the rest of the shelves to go up so I can put up all the DVDs that will free up more space in my house.

Well, I also have one scene to write on The Lines Of Marsden: Living In Shadows. The final scene... I should have finished it yesterday but I was preoccupied with print books and having a stupid migraine all afternoon.

On a positive note the people at Sanity Music gave me a Bernard Fanning poster. He was the lead singer of the Australian band - Powderfinger, but now he is solo... but I have always liked them.