Nasty, nasty, nasty! The congestion had just gotten worse and worse until this afternoon I couldn’t sit down and breathe. Or drink. I was getting very frustrated, grumpy, and more than a little scared. The only way I could even partially clear my sinuses was to get up and walk around. Finally, at the Girl’s insistence, I called my GP and made an appointment for tomorrow morning. And while I was at it, I talked to her nurse, who…
At least, as far as this cold is concerned. Woke up with both sinus passages solidly blocked and they stayed that way, not giving up much more than a drop or two of mucus until after I got myself a cup of coffee. The mucus is still clear, which may mean that this isn’t a cold at all but a worsening of my allergies. Just what I need…. Started The White Winds chapter 15 the other day, and Overtures…
This one has lasted three days so far. I figure I’ve got another four or five to go. I hate feeling all stopped up an unable to get anything out when I blow my nose. At least I’ve gotten two more scenes written for Overtures. Just have to figure out where to go from there. I suppose one of the “Talking with Jeff ” scenes. I need to go back and see what kinds of improvements Jeff had told…
I’ve got two small portions of Overtures 7 in the can. That’s it. I haven’t felt this dry on a story in a long time. I have other scenes in mind for later, and I probably should write them out. I’ve been betaing some things, and need to do some others. I’m going nuts at IR:TNP with one of the writers. Sigh. I need to get things going with this fic so I can get back to The…
Chapter 14 of The White Winds is up and what a hassle! I got this new word processing program (with a whole lot more) that’s supposed to be MS Word compatible. Well, I had trouble uploading to ff.net, and when I finally did post the chapter, things were all bunched together. I had to go back, save in Wordpad, and upload from there. Then things looked right. I hope I don’t have to do this for every single file from…
I’ve created a second blog, under my Tiquatoo address, that I’m dedicating to helping people write better. I’ve linked it to this one in my favorite links list; it’s at the bottom. The site is pared down to the essentials, really, with a list of writer’s resources, common fan fiction terms, and the blog, where I hope to discuss writing and bring out some of the basics at first. This site is linked as well so that if people want to…
Consider this a rant. For every polite, talented, eager to learn teenaged writer, there are at least three who have thin skins, foul mouths, and big heads. TracyLOVER is a fine example of this latter category. She finally got back to Hobbeth (I wondered what took her so long) after that worthy took her to task for her flaming me on The White Winds. From the account I got, the letter was foul mouthed, and told Hobbeth to shove off…
Hubby gave me permission to buy myself some new clothes as a lot of my old ones are just hanging on me. The shorts I wore yesterday kept wanting to slip down and off. So I went to Walmart today with the hopes of buying some new button-and-fly jeans. Well, I got two pairs of stretch denim jeans, one by Just My Size and one by Faded Glory, plus a pair of stretch twill capris! I was so excited!…
Made the very big mistake of reading something by “TracyLOVER” on ff.net today, and gave my honest opinion, which is that it was PWP, Porn Without Plot (or sometimes known as “Plot? What Plot?”). This got me a snarky so-called “review” on The White Winds, which I made the huge mistake of replying to in email. She emailed me back. Talk about venom! Couldn’t write a sentence without a four-letter word, said she’d tear out my eyeballs and feed them…
Chapter 5 of Overtures is up, but also Chapter 12 of The White Winds, which is actually better because things were flowing again. I had struggled all week with those two chapters and today, chapter 12 just poured out. It felt good to get underway again. Been looking into zines as a means of publishing my work. I joined a Yahoo group dedicated to it and asked if there were any Thunderbirds zines out there. Maybe I’ll get an…