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#2sentenceminimum

Just whipped off my minimum on R3 prior to dashing off elsewhere. Amrae is having trouble with his divine partner, Vik. Vik, is a giant white otter when he shifts. Amrae is a real asshole MSM. They're arguing after Amrae managed to attract the woman Vik was trying to seduce.

I guess I'll post this little bit. Warning, glbtq, adult content with a major asshole guy thinking he can top forever. Oh, and Vik using ESP to speak, although I never call it ESP in the novels.

“Stop…! Ow! Vik! Stop! Get off me!” Amrae’s fist punched down on the otter’s head. Vik loosed a small mewl. Amrae inched toward a nearby wall, scrabbling for anything to help him bash the otter, but Vik hopped onto him before he had a chance to do that or get up and run. “Ow! Vik, stop it!”

She was mine! Mine!

“M’lani is yours! Stop it! Hey!”

Vik had rolled him onto his stomach. Amrae twisted around and kicked at his head. He missed, but Vik still backed off.

M’lani is yours too!

“Then why are we arguing?”

You interfered!

“You haven’t serviced M’lani properly. Get off!”

You interfere with her too! It’s always your cock first! She’s afraid to take out the fertility impediment.

“Fine. I’ll let you go first next time.”

Not enough.

“Fine! You can have her cunt all to yourself! So long as you’re both sucking—”

Fuck you! You never spread your legs! You never receive! Vik attacked him again. Amrae thumped a boot at his head, only to have the otter grab the footwear and wrench it from the mortal’s foot.

“Hey! Fuck…! I’m not receiving! Ever! Get it straight!”

My tweets

Thu, 14:26 : Latest research for R3: asteroids, because I always forget which to use (asteroid/meteor/meteorite power struggle in my brain) and chowder. Thu, 14:48 : Just downloaded movie music. Very nice title theme. http://t.co/FRmPjvI6 Thu, 15:18 : Help me lower the price on Amazon http://t.co/bvqS70ke Fri, 00:26 : Pantsering through stalls http://t.co/UsyyDMbk

Pantsering through stalls

Today I busted through a stall in R3 simply by applying Tressa Green's #2sentenceminimum. It's more like a ten sentence minimum for me, but basically, I wrote the minimum no matter what for the past three days. The stall was my uncertainty how to mesh the current scene with the next planned development of the plot. Yesterday and today, I fell back on my only strength and pantsered my way through my minimums. And there it was, the paragraph that meshes the scenes. 

Gotta give pantsering credit as a viable writing skill. None of my stories would have been written without it. I'm not a 100% pantser, except at the keyboard. Bad thing to forget. Rule: at keyboard, pantser; all other places, plot, plot, plot. It took me how long to figure that out about me? Kinda embarrassing to say.

Oh, here. Pantser definition. I kinda like learning the roots of words. I blame my grade 12 English teacher, a stern, brilliant Shakespearean actress disguised as an educator. 

Help me lower the price on Amazon

Bound 1 and Gryphon 1 are now both free on iTunes. I clicked the Amazon button for reporting a lower price elsewhere. If you'd like to help out, here are the links:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/bound-in-stone/id479223198?mt=11

http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-gryphon-taint/id483180455?mt=11

http://www.amazon.com/Bound-Stone-Soulstone-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B006G4O5QO/ref=la_B006G6Z3OU_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1347558370&sr=1-3

http://www.amazon.com/Gryphon-Taint-Soulstone-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B006G57YRU/ref=la_B006G6Z3OU_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1347563863&sr=1-14

And you can easily download those and one other freebie on Smashwords right now if you like:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/KMFrontain

My tweets

Wed, 13:40 : Brilliantly quick response from Amazon http://t.co/sqtMkiGo Wed, 14:25 : #review Bound in Stone set: "I loved all 3. well wriiten. I didnt want it to end, so on to more. again well done." http://t.co/Tmzi2hN0 Wed, 14:28 : Thank you to Rick Petrey for the review of the Bound in Stone set on Smashwords. #freebook http://t.co/Te0Y3CBD Wed, 15:34 : Yay! Reader was posted earlier for Bound in Stone set. http://t.co/hvAlCvpN Wed, 15:43 : Ha ha ha. Forgot a word in my blog post title. Going to nap now. Mind is broken. Wed, 17:54 : RT @Nikakat79: @WilWheatons_Cat This is Theibus. He was blinded by a prick throwing acid on him but is still feisty and loving http://t. ... Wed, 22:14 : Wrote 7 new pages for Redmeption 3 today. Starting to wonder how much of original version I'll end up keeping. Thu, 10:36 : http://t.co/SxnPFscT Bound 1 and Gryphon 1 are now free on iTunes. Let's hope Amazon will price match.

Yay! Reader review was posted earlier for Bound in Stone set.

I received a review for the Bound in Stone set today over on Smashwords. Rick Petrey wrote "I loved all 3. well wriiten. I didnt want it to end, so on to more. again well done." Five stars.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/172047

Thank you very much, Rick. I appreciate getting reviews from readers. It helps me get on the radar.

And here's the link to the first of the Bound set (download for free on Smashwords):  https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/171152

Brilliantly quick response from Amazon

Ok, an Amazon rep wrote back and apparently non UK customers are not supposed to see books on an author's page. I can apparently log out and log in or something to access my page properly. So somehow Google Chrome managed to change settings since last I properly viewed the page and as of yesterday, so did the BlackBerry Playbook browser, which is very strange indeed. Gotta give kudos to Amazon UK for the really fast response time.

My tweets

Tue, 12:18 : Seriously tempted to have one of the new puppies over there, but it's a 900$ show dog baby. Tue, 13:33 : Show your support for the @NOH8Campaign by adding a #NOH8 @Twibbon to your avatar now! http://t.co/nHb2JoHK #LGBT Please Retweet! Tue, 13:38 : Hrrmm. This NOH8 addition to my image is misbehaving. Tue, 13:46 : I couldn't get the NOH8 twibbon to behave itself. :-( Tue, 13:47 : I will just have to photoshop it onto my logo myself. Maybe right on the cat's ass. Tue, 16:53 : All right, so I got the NOH8 twibbon working at last, but I had to pretty much log off the computer for a few hours (nap time) to reset. Tue, 16:54 : But now I'm not sure I like how small I made this twibbon. Nope. Don't like how small it is. Too small on this window. Tue, 16:55 : Well, I'll leave it like that for now and fix it later. Wed, 07:32 : Amazon UK blocking author content http://t.co/dXPemeng Wed, 08:10 : So, I've done some testing, but no solution so far as to why my book list is missing while using Google Chrome and BlackBerry Playbook. Wed, 08:10 : Yesterday, Playbook was fine, Chrome not. It was an unpleasant surprise to find the titles missing while using the Playbook. Wed, 09:41 : Managed to get a full two pages out of this morning's #2sentenceminimum.

Amazon UK author content blocked

Yesterday I couldn't see my books on my author page only when using Google Chrome. Today they are hidden /missing while accessing the page using my BlackBerry Playbook. I haven't turned on my computer yet and I'm afraid of what I may find on Firefox, IE, and Opera. I've sent a message to Amazon UK. I hope this is a glitch, but if they are blocking me on purpose, then they are purposely trying to destroy my chances at selling books.

Edit: Computer is on. The results so far: content is missing while viewing on the Playbook and Google Chrome. Present while viewing on Firefox, Opera, and IE. I shall have to hope that my query on Amazon UK will lead to a solution. Or they may pass the buck and tell me to query Google Chrome or Blackberry. And then I can only hope that they don't pull a "ask Amazon" at me. I just verified to make sure, and Adblock on Google Chrome is not responsible for blocking my book content.

Another edit: I found a bug reporter on Google Chrome that I could use to report the page. I've sent off a query to find out if Google Chrome script is responsible. I'll see what happens to them before I attempt any queries with RIM (Blackberry makers).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/K.M.-Frontain/e/B006G6Z3OU/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

I'm taking some good advice from Tressa

wl551 calls it the #2sentenceminimum, and that's the hashtag on Google+ and Twitter. She writes at least two sentences on her WIP a day. I have instituted it today for my own work, but shall do a 10 sentence minimum. I've been so distracted by other stuff, I haven't gotten nearly as much done on the rewrite of Redemption 3 for some time now. So by doing this little minimum, I at least get something written while at the same time continuing fixes of old stuff.