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What the?

Yesterday I had a quick look through the manuscript for The Dying God & Other Stories. This piece is something I've edited, re-edited, had edited (unpaid) and edited again.I still found errors.Two spelling errors and roughly four grammatical errors.What the...?That might not seem so bad for five poems and ten short stories, but I found it completely unacceptable, especially since I have paid so

UGH! That is all.

Motivation seems to be an issue with me right now. I think I'm putting a little too much pressure on myself. I'm stressed out about The Dying God & Other Stories, which is due to come out at the end of this month. I'm stressed out about The Osprey and the Crow, which I am preparing to submit to competition at the end of the year.I'm stressed about finances.I'm stressed about life in

Friday's News

Life is great today!I'm doing the stress-free life this week. I've been taking my editing very lightly - only a page or so a day. I've done this for several reasons. First and foremost, I dislike the exercise. I understand that it's necessary and proper. I just don't like doing it. Secondly, my brain has switched into daydream mode, rendering any other mental capacity absolutely useless.

Not Much to Note

Things are pretty quiet on my end. Come to think of it, my life in general isn't all that exciting at the moment.I had lots of excitement when I was young. We moved around every two years. I was bullied. A lot. I change schools. I changed subjects. I met new people. Made new friends.Now that I'm all "grown up" life appears to have slowed down some. I'm not really meeting that many new

Computer Trouble

I'm so sorry this post is so late. The computer just crashed, and I got a big blue screen with white writing which told me that a very serious problem occurred and Windows had to shut down.So, today will be spent backing up all my stuff, and scanning every inch of the hard drive with various programmes in the hopes that something might get fixed. Le sigh. I hate it when computers near the end

Weird Dreams

I have weird dreams. Dreams that are so vivid, and odd that one might be excused for thinking I dropped a little acid before I went to bed.Last night I was a dog. Not just any dog, either. I was Cysgod Mawr - a character I created for one of the short stories in The Dying God & Other Stories (available October 31st, exclusively at Lebrary.com). Please excuse the shameless plug. In any case,

Good Morning, Week

Hello all,I had a great weekend. How was yours?I've officially recovered from whatever the hell cold/flu thing I had. I still have a little trouble breathing, but that's nothing that a little exercise won't fix. So, I'll be heading to training tonight for the first time in a week and a half. Excellent! My shoulders are tight and my neck is tense. These are symptoms that I've been away from

A Positive Wednesday

Well, yesterday was fun!I posted up news of the book trailer for The Dying God & Other Stories on every social networking site I belong to, and with the generous help of others, it went pretty far. I feel... almost famous!I was pleased to find the trailer reposted on the Lebrary.com facebook fan page (yay for free advertising!). Then later that day, I found my name mentioned in a very short

Book Trailer!

SQUEE! The book trailer for The Dying God & Other Stories was uploaded yesterday. I've gotten some pretty good feedback for it. For those of you who are curious, here it is:




You can also find it on youtube and my facebook fan page.I'm quite impressed with J.M-B. for all the hard work and stuff (technical term) she did for this trailer. I'm just concerned now that the trailer makes my book

Daydream

I have touched a couple of times, but never really written specifically on, the importance of daydreams.For those few people who have never had them and don't know what the hell I'm talking about, a daydream is something remarkable that happens to people. It usually creeps up on you in times of intense boredom. For me, that happened A great deal at school, where I was generally bored out of my