Hocus Pocus, I need to focus.
I'm helping a mentee edit for Prompt, I have physio, I have the rant to drop off and the daily tale to tell.
I'll get it all done in the end, but whether I have time for myself that's the rub. I need some me-time.
Best way to get that is to hurry up and do the things. So I'm trying to juggle my time and manage it well, but... distractions, ankle, talking to my mentee. Stuff that keeps me definitively off kilter.
Trying my best to do all the things.
More bread is in the incubator, I have an entry to complete for the Promptcast before I start posting there, so that's my morning.
Not helped by a heaping dose of soul-weariness caused by lonely plus watching my funds dwindle steadily towards zero.
Not fun.
But at least the kitchen sink is working properly again.
I hope to get another Query Letter done today. Adapting will have an appropriate escort to an agent/publisher on its last hurrah before turning up on
Read more »My left foot fucking hates me. Mayhem and I had PLNs to visit Bunnings and then pick up cordial on the way back. Now he wants to spend his JB HiFi gift cards.
So that's Bunnings for a better plunger [No cheap shit henceforth!] and maybe a broom handle but definitely a tennis ball if we can get it. Then JB for the gift cards, followed by Golden Circle Factory Outlet for necessary flavour. If the trip extends any further, I might
Read more »The Archive is going. The Promptcast is about to commence. I have starter in the incubator and the kids set for wrangling dough.
I can only hope it all goes well.
I have found a way to supercharge my coffee. The downside being that it should only be taken in the morning.
IDK about making myself iced coffee in the AM but those frozen cubes of coffee are the way to supercharge caffeine.
Might be an idea to stay awake on the
Read more »::Jazz hands and singing:: I have no fucking idea what's going on today and that SUUUUUUCKS!!!
(yeah)
Basically hoping to re-engage the plns that fell through last weekend. Not helped by the fact that my lovelies seem to have forgotten entirely what went on last weekend.
...yay.
I've held off on bread so I won't be engaged in making any. I've held off on breakfast in case my lovelies want to take me away to some food.
I am in a holding
Read more »Last weekend, I couldn't do a thing because I was doing bread. Today, we're down to the last loaf of bread and that means I should be working on more bread this weekend. However, the thing still needs doing before it makes a disaster happens so... I'm withholding bread until that shit's done.
All to make sure a certain app keeps working. And thereby my mail app.
Grumblemumble specific internet security growlsnarl.
My aim today, besides the usual throughput, to complete another
Read more »It's a trial to pitch a novel with an ensemble cast when the questions centre on a singular main character. I'll have to answer for the main characters each, and tie the main story together there.
That promises to be fun.
Once I figure out that finagling, I should be good for working on the others.
Should.
I'll have a go before creating today's story.
::attacking the Query Letter WIP with a mallet::
Read more »I just finished chapter 580 of A Devil's Tale and...
[Shown here: A screencap of a GoogleDrive directory for chapters 581-600, containing the last two chapters of that range]
The final countdown commenceth. I start announcing on all my socials when I'm down to fifteen or ten. I haven't decided yet.
It's likely that I will forget one somewhere.
Just watch me fuck this up.
BUT on the bright side, I also have offerings for the Patrons, may there be many more
Read more »I'm moderating the Promptcast Stream as I type. Keeping an eye on the chat as I work on this or that.
I finished the thing for the Promptcast and I don't need to fret about offerings to the Archive since they're on a little sabbatical this week.
So now all I need to worry about is the other four Madlib Query Letters, today's story, and maybe keeping the chat orderly.
My brain is fogging hard because stress. I had a fever in
Read more »I have the third loaf in the incubator. I have the Promptcast revealing everyone tomorrow. Or at least everyone who feels comfortable with being revealed. I know that one writer is calling themself HashtagNineteen.
We'll winkle them out of their shell in the fullness of time.
Confidence is an elusive beast when you're a writer. You spend a majority of time inside your own head and then start wondering if other heads will even appreciate it.
And when the feedback is minimal
Read more »...and bread. Everything is sideways today. I've been forgetting a few things because they are out of the normal order.
Today, after I do my story, I shall be working on the Madlibs query letters for the books I plan to pitch. If I do it well, I might launch a simul-pitch launch. I may need my friends in Discord to play the Pitch-a-Book Dating Game.
That's happening sometime very soon because launching has become more important recently. Shit or get off
Read more »We are still fine. We can manage. I want that out in the open. Nevertheless, a minor financial hiccough is making me anxious. I have faith. There will be a PLN. We have enough.
Today's Leyland's Tour includes Costco, Bunnings, and Aldi.
I also have bread happening today and tomorrow. Huzzah.
I've seen to a litterbox, I've measured out ingredients, I have an idea of how to sally forth and continue. Today. Tomorrow is a little bit more vague.
In contact with
Read more »If I take off at ten, I'll have some time to work on a thing. Yay.
If I actually get wriggling now, I'll have fewer expectations for my offerings. Huzzah.
And if I wait to go shopping tomorrow, I won't have to fret about having enough moneys. Woot.
Let's get on with that.
Read more »I think I'll share more fanfic today. I'll go off about the CGI movie Monkey King if I still have things to get off my chest when the fanfic is done.
Having grown up on a version of Journey to the West I have issues with the film. Suffice to say that it was clearly made for Western audiences unfamiliar with the source material and missed a LOT of beats from there.
And they made Tripitaka fat, and had him already escorted
Someone left the Promptcast [as is their right] and took their wordcount with them. I read it as leaving in a huff and throwing a tanty about things they weren't allowed to say or do. Especially some of the things said about Generative AI.
I don't know what their bugbear on that is, and it's ultimately not important.
The issue is that the person who did that has moved over to the Archive. Bad habits and all.
I've warned the Archive's presenter/
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