Yay writing, schooling and god awful heat.

So I live in the deep south at the moment and we are having a god awful heat wave. By god awful I mean it has been over 100 degrees for the past three weeks. As I have complained before I also have Lupus and fibromyalgia and heat is very bad thing for me. So for the past three weeks I have felt really really bad. I do not want to curse in this blog because I do not think that is the best use of either the blog or your time but feel free to put any words that come to mind because they are going to be more true to what I was feeling and thinking about the heat. That means I have not had either the energy to write or the physical ability to do so. Because of where I have my SLE lupus fluid it hurts to sit up, to have anything on my lap because it pulls on the muscles making the fluid move which not any fun for me or anyone around me. But this week-end we got rain. Wonderful, cooling rain. The heat went from 105 with a heat index of 115 to 93. In about 20 minutes. I still need to stay inside but I can sit up with much pain and I have the desire to write again. I still need to get about 25,000 words before I can call this draft done. Then I get the wonderful task of breaking up the single novel in three. Like I said in a previous post I realized that 63,000 words that I had a trilogy not a single novel. Which is fine but man I wish that I knew that before I started writing it. This week is going to be very busy with my next grad school class, starting a new job, having a relationship and some kind of social life. I'm only when I'm being pulled in five different directions. See you next week!

Just a quick note

Well I'm in between classes until Thursday and I don't start my new job until next week so I'm hoping to get some writing and some reading done. I have not written anything on my novel for about two weeks and I'm feeling bad about that. But I was in very research intensive course with my June class. The class was basically how to be a research librarian. Not bad but man now I understand why every librarian I ever asked for help from loved me. We were given real questions that either the professor who was teaching the class or what the other professors had really been asked over the course of the years as librarians. For example one question was this- A GTA comes to you with this problem. Her professor is writing an article and wants to use a particular reference. But neither the GTA or the professor know the title of the article, who wrote, if it was published in a scholarly journal or in a trade journal. They think that they know what publishing house published the articles but they are not sure about that. The GTA does have a quote from the article but it may or may not be right. That was really one of my questions that I had to answer. I would never ever have walked up to a librarian with that question. I facepalmed when I finished reading it. I was able to find the article but man it was a pain in the a$$ mostly mine but a pain none the less. Don't feel too bad for me but pity my partner because he got to hear all about it, with full adjectives and very colorfully. He's a great guy with much patience.  Well see you next week!

Good news and sad news

Well the good news is that I have finished with my first summer class and I have about a week before my next one starts so I have more time to write. Sad news is that I did not get to be a reviewer for Dark Faery Tales. I'm still too young of a reviewer to really be of use to them. Be that I mean I am still learning my style of reviewing and the like. But I have learned because the reviewer for DFT sat down and read one of my reviews. She gave me some critiques that I am going to use in my book reviews in the future. Unlike my writing blog I am about six weeks ahead with my book blog so it will be about six weeks before any of my readers will see the fruits of that. About the novel I am almost 75,000 words in and I need about 25,000 more before I call it done. Then I am going to be cutting it up into three novels. Because I realized about 63,000 words in that I have a trilogy on my hands not one novel. One the hand that makes me very happy but on the other I facepalmed myself because I thought I was writing just a little fantasy story. I was so wrong. I don't know for sure but I think that I can get at least 75,000 words per novel and if I'm really good then I can get 100,000 per novel. I hoping for that but the story will move as it will. So that is everything that is going on this week. See you next!

Cool stuff in grad school

So for my current library science class I have to make a libguide. A libguide is a guide made by and for library students (at least that is the way at my campus). I can make it about anything I want to so I have chosen to have it about publishers and Sci-Fi and fantasy publishers in particular. I have been researching publishers for the past two weeks and man I have learned some interesting stuff. In the guide I have general information about the publisher, history, what imprints if they have any and links to their websites, twitter and/or RSS feed. Between it and working and looking for more permanent work I have little to no time. My current job is good but it is just summer work so I'm looking for a 'real' job. I have some hooks in the line but so far nothing doing. Well here's hoping for a better week for writing and maybe working too.

Hanging on by a fingernail

So this week has been rough writing wise. I have a job again which is great but it is only going to last for the summer. I have a fairly demanding class for June. Last friday I had two major assignments due. They were done before midnight but it was still something else to take me away from writing. I have another one due this friday and then the last one next friday. I have always liked summer classes in college because they are so quick. But my Camp NaNo book is just sitting there. I have not written anything for it in about a week. I have written on the novel but not as much as I would like to have done. I'm hoping to get back on it but I just don't know if that is going to happen with working 20 hours a week, full time grad school and writing on another novel. Now I can hear some people thinking 'Why don't you just use the novel you're writing as your NaNo thing?'. The answer is I can't because I'm almost 80,000 words in. That would be cheating and cheating is wrong. At least that is what I'm telling myself. Also happy and interesting news I'm being considered to be a new book review for an awesome book website called http://darkfaerietales.com/ they are awesome. They are the ones who give me the idea about starting my own book blog all those months ago. I need to make sometime to do what the nice lady asked me to do so that I can be really considered not just sort-of, kind-of. Well that's it for this week. Thanks for reading and see you next week!

fantasy-scifi-stories-by-me: Camp NaNo, Novel writing, grad school and me

fantasy-scifi-stories-by-me: Camp NaNo, Novel writing, grad school and me: So this month is going to be crazy. I am doing Camp NaNoWriMo. I am going to be finishing a novel only about 30000+ words remaining. I am in...

Camp NaNo, Novel writing, grad school and me

So this month is going to be crazy. I am doing Camp NaNoWriMo. I am going to be finishing a novel only about 30000+ words remaining. I am in third term as a grad student. I have a job again (thank god!). And I still have normal life. Normal life for me includes tabletop rp once a week with friends, having a working marriage and dealing with my lupus/fibro. In addition to the lupus I live in a southern state in the US so that means it is 95+ degrees outside until about October. If you know anyone with lupus heat is a bad thing. So life is crazy right now but that is okay. I'm feeling good for the time first in about three years. So my writing blog is probably going to be a little shorter than the past few. Next week I will talk about the writing for NaNo and maybe I will have finished the novel so I'm doing three or four things instead of everything at once. Because unless I'm running like a chicken without a head I'm just not happy clearly.