Category: Random Author Babble

January 21

612 pages down…

Ugh, so I finished getting the library condensed and ready for the newest membership plugin. Later, though. Like a week or two. @_@ Just went through and was able to delete 612 pages and my eyes and brain just hate me at the moment. Added new security stuff, all this coding bullshit.

Hate this computer shit. Hopefully things will be much smoother, etc, but still, fucking hate this neurotic stuff. We built computers so we wouldn’t have to act like machines, not so that we would train our brains to be computers.

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January 19

Ideas a brewing…

Deleted over 350 pages of content today by changing the format from scenes to events. It might seem pointless, but without all those pages being counted by the website to protect, things are already moving faster. There are actually more to go, but I’m pacing myself here. @_@ It was interesting to scan through some of those works while condensing them onto the same page. Obsession, My Secret Bronicorn, City Howls… It brought up a question I haven’t been thinking too much about until now.

What do readers want for content next? Hot and quick? Something terribly suspenseful? Taboo all the way? What has happened to the werewolves, eh? I’m all over the place as a writer (hopefully in a good way @_@) and can pick any direction. I would prefer to pick a direction readers are looking forward to, instead of my blind randomness.

I moved away from feedback the last year, half because of website constraints with that bloated comment plugin and the fact that the comment plugin won’t show on pages I’ve manually designed past the basic theme. And half because when my health started improving (and dropping for a bit) so drastically, I really wasn’t in a communicative mood. I needed isolation to deal with all that shit of just, well, healing and relearning how to be in a body that wasn’t completely broken and sleeping 24-7. My brain has gone through a giant overhaul as I regrew neurons damaged from the Parkinson’s and allergies–I remember this random conversation where an amazing author linked me to a music video he loved and I just found myself trying to interpret the lyrics on the screen like it was a code to crack. Pattern recognition + neurotic obsession = me being a total weirdo. My brain has gone through some shit and the less people saw that first hand, likely the better.

I’d like to move away from that place now–although I’m sure I have set a precedent at this point. Also, you never really know how people want to talk about the stuff I write about. XD I’m friendly, open about every topic, etc, but I think reading can sometimes be a very isolating experience as well. Not in a bad way, or anything. I just know sometimes you don’t want to talk about what you’re reading and instead enjoy it for what it is, aka, dirty as fuck. *wink*

Anywho…

Once I remember how to do a poll, I’m putting one up to see what fans want to see written next (besides the Paranormal Academy for Troubled Boys.) I want to know what story is going to make people the happiest to see worked on. I have my suspicions *cough* Hellcat *cough* but I could be way off base. I want to know what you guys want to read, and that will be the next one I draft.

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January 17

Thoughts of juggling…

I’m considering writing the next drafts for Sorcerer Slayer while getting Demon Arms ready for publishing. It comes down to time and that wall I’m heading toward once I need to edit Demon Arms. And then Shiny Thief, which has so little left to do, it will be edited right after Demon Arms is. How do I pace all of this?

I’ve already outlined Sorcerer Slayer with all those essential plot points, the drama, the character arcs, etc. It is ready to be drafted with the most important parts already problem solved. If I start drafting it now, once those other two stories are done on the publishing end, I’ll have something to start working on immediately. It might also be a good run to see how I want to adjust my drafting process when I start hiring on help. I don’t expect to have anyone helping with the long series like PATB–those are my babies (cuz I’m a selfish bitch. XD) But it’ll be good for when I start doing some short stories and look to get the smaller series like City Howls and Bronicorn tackled. If I can start getting things ready for ‘production,’ so to speak, I can free up time and create a better focus for the things I am working on. I want to see Sorcerer Slayer, Manic Fool and Hellcat #2 done this year. If I wasn’t doing all this other shit…

And maybe I’m seeing how I’ve been focused in the wrong places lately? If I didn’t need PATB #1 and 2 ready for publishing, I wouldn’t be so over focused on them. If I focused purely on the website and content creation instead of publishing, my process would be completely different atm.

I dunno. I have a lot to think about as I move forward. I think this is a unique problem in some ways with how my cognitive function was so impaired by mold when first writing. Normally, I would say to forget about the old stuff and just move forward. But since I see PATB as a key series with so much potential, and with the moldy writing of old, I don’t have that luxury. It really needs the best attention I can give it before moving forward. But that doesn’t mean I can’t start planning the other stories and getting those drafts started.

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January 16

Getting shit done!

Calendars are mailed out. Scene 32 of Demon Arms is finished and I’m drafting 33, which is where you actually get to see what the hell shifters do for exercise and it involves treacherous jumps and potential falls. <3 And expect to see a layout change where I start moving the stories into an 'Event' format to match how I've set up the WIP progress charts. I think it's a great organizational set up that's going to help me by being less complicated, and with links within the page, it will still be easy to find the latest scene updates. Hope you babes are having a great week. ^.^

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January 16

Calendars!

Finally shipping out the Demon Bonded calendars today! Ugh, had so many weird things happen mid production, one of them being the print shops printer broke for a day, they thought it was done once it was fixed, but they had magenta ink all over the calendars. @_@ What a mess. But it’s all fixed, the calendars look gorgeous, and they should be arriving soon. So sorry for the wait, babes.

I feel like the weekend steals my writing flow away. Mondays are even worse because I’m back to my preferred isolation but the day is spent cleaning up the mess of the weekend. It’s this lie of getting my life back only to realize it won’t happen for another day.

Oh, and if you missed it, you can find the 2019 Demon Bonded Calendar here.

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January 14

Hmmm…

I may be poking at the new subscription site through the week to see how to transfer stuff. No promises. This shit is like a pebble in my shoe. Once my mind is on it, it’s frustrating to not finish things up and just complete it. I’ll probably be fiddling with it late at night when I’m too tired to actually write…

Obsessive as fuck? Who, me? Nah. 😛

I feel good, peeps. I feel like this health thing is going to last, and I finally have a future laid out before me. And maybe that’s idealistic as fuck given my track record, but I don’t care. Gonna get shit done.

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January 11

Shipping options…

Huh, you can apparently map out shipping options out of country, country by country, all the way down to the damn zipcodes. This is both awesome and totally disheartening, cuz I know one day in the near future, likely around the time I’m designing a t-shirt, I’m going to have to go through and make each zone and figure out shipping costs for the size/weight, etc. @_@ On a day I’m feeling totally neurotic, this will be an interesting task…

Ooh, or maybe I can outsource that task. That’s what normal people do, right? Hire people to do the shit you don’t understand instead of learning every fucking thing you can about everything. Must be nice. XD

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January 10

Back On Track

I think the website is as good as it’s going to get for now. I want to change over to another subscription software, but I’m going to give it a few more weeks when I have less to do. For now, back to writing and Demon Arms!!!

I’m actually digging having the story broken up into ‘events.’ It’s less pages to keep track of on the website, for one, and you get this nice chunk of story. I could even do exact links to scenes in the page… I’m thinking about it. I want ease. I have a lot planned and I want a system that can grow instead of one that needs to keep catching up with me.

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January 9

New Year, New Design

I figured since I was doing all the work to integrate a cart system into the website, I might as well give it a little makeover too. Something a bit brighter and more cheerful than the wall of busy black. I liked the wall of black, don’t get me wrong. It had a crazed, falling into the dark woods kind of feel. But hey, color for the win and cute, quirky diamond plaid.

Sorry if things are loading a little slow. I’m working on it. I had to add all these new plugins and for some reason my image optimizer decided to turn itself off, etc. @_@ Ah, words…

Oh, fuck, if you missed it, I did a Demon Bonded calendar! I’m only making a limited run, so if you want one you should snag it now.

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January 7

Website Stuff

Hey babes, I’m in overwhelm at the moment as I try to set up a shopping cart on the website. The cart, oddly enough, easy enough. The shipping bullshit that goes along with it is a whole other mess. Ugh. Buuuut it’s happening, slow as it is. Sorry for being MIA so long–how is it the 7th already?! Shit.

Anyways, new stuff soon. Announcements to make. Gonna get a newsletter out on a weird day cuz I’m playing so much catch up. But yeah, good stuff. I’m just in that bad mental place of staring at code for 3 days straight and wanting to burn the world in response. But other than that, sunshine. XD

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