We finished the Star Wars story ages ago. But I can't seem to post it on my website.
My website for Star Wars stories
We are now working on what I have termed, "The Phil and John Story." Working title is, "Hush." I don't know. Why is it that sex scenes read like bad porn? It's supposed to be disgusting, not titillating. Well, some of it. Since we finished the Star Wars story (back in the summer of 2007), we've not really done all that much work on the Phil and John story.
that is, the Star Wars story is so very close to being done. All we have to do is write about two complete sections, and then do the editing. And I will be done with writing Star Wars fan fiction. Now, if GL and Lucasarts comes calling, that will be a different story.
I am going to consolidate all my blogs and put them on my own website. I'm tired of having three or four blogs and not being able to alter the font on some of them, and having problems posting with others. One place for me, and one place only. And I will advertise heavily to get some readers, since it seems like no one reads this.
A little better today. We're writing the climactic scene of the Star Wars story. It will soon be finished. I'd like to see it finished before I move. So, once I'm settled back in Fredericksburg, I can decide what else, besides "Hush" I want to work on, with my partner, and alone. I'd like to write some shorts for publication, and just send them off to magazines, or something really simple. I know there will be lots of reject slips, but i just want to DO SOMETHING.
I think the real problem with "Duel of the Fates" is that we ARE ending the series, and want to do so with something radically different to what most people write. Instead of just a big battle, we want this confrontation to also be spiritual, the culmination of one character's inner conflict.
I can't decide if I have real writer's block, or if I'm just not motivated, because i"m going through other stuff in my life that demands my attention. When I want to write, the ideas, even the words, just won't come. I really have to "force it" to happen. And the product stinks. The action doesn't flow, it isn't even action. The descriptions are overwrought and annoying. It's just altogether a mess. WHY?
I use my LiveJournal to comment on politics. I use my Yahoo 360º blog to write personal comments. So what should I use THIS blog for? I'm thinking maybe to chronicle my writing worries, woes and hopes. After all, writing is not just a hobby for me. I hope to someday publish. But I also feel there are stories inside me waiting to be told.
Sometimes I'm too busy to put much up here. But I do think about quite a few things I'd like to say in public. Because I have several of these public blogs, I try to be careful, and not overdo things on just one site.
Links to my other blogs:
And THOSE are the ones I recall. I believe I have a "blogger" account, but I only use it to reply to friends.
And then there is this:
My personal website on Imperialnavy.net
That is, if you enjoy Star Wars fan fiction for the discriminating adult (Not to be confused with Star Wars porn)
Feel free to visit, except for the Yahoo 360º, which, IIRC, can only be viewed by friends.
What's one thing you regret not doing?
Submitted by Mr. Nice.
There are many things I truly wish I had done when I was younger. (I will be 49 in a week and a half). Not that I'm unhappy by any means. However, I do think that certain outside influences, as well as certain poor decisions of mine, created situations that, today, were I faced with those situations, I'd make a different decision than I did at that time.
OTOH, life is too short to worry too much about it now. Perhaps it is more constructive, at least for me, to ask myself, what can I change for the better, TODAY?
Best wishes to all.
I've gone a few places while I was here. I wanted to put up this picture of me, because I don't get many pictures of myself that I actually like. As it is, I'm still not sure why my hair is so light. I thought I got a darker shade than this.
After a couple of sleepless nights, interspersed with a day in which I was so ill I slept about 16 hours, I am now feeling a good deal better. So...
We've done a lot more traveling, Marcus bought me a rosewood recorder, which I just love, I was able to get presents for all but one of the kids, and we went to Kevin's the other night for a birthday celebration for Marcus, and his two brothers, Kevin and Matthias.
Now it's raining, but.. I like it here when it rains, too.
I still cannot get used to the time differential, and I've been in Stockholm a week and a half. We've been a number of places, but at the same time, I've also done quite a bit of practicing on my clarinet, and made an anklet, and a couple pair of earrings. Still not repaired all the rosaries I would like to repair. Something important to me.
I just don't like 1) eating too much; and 2) still feeling so tired. Yes, I had a lot on my mind, but I don't want to burn myself out mentally, when I need to rest. Summer is, well, in some ways too long, in others not long enough. I love teaching, but, I don't like the tired feeling. I think it comes primarily from 1) having an inadequate bed at home, and 2) being way too overweight. NOT good.
The first will be easily remedied once I have the money. Just a matter of getting a few more bills paid off, then I can get the bed Marcus and I picked out from IKEA. Now, the second item. It has always been difficult for me to make the commitment to eat sensibly, and not like a madwoman, and, the concomitant commitment to eat with weight loss in mind, rather than maintenance (in my case, maintenance of a weight that is VERY unhealthy, and basically, while not morbidly obese, probably borders upon it)
Maybe it helps to put this out in front of myself. I hope so.
