K.D. Sarge's Blog, page 51

What is this Moderation of Which You Speak?

I’m not inclined towards moderation, you know. Here’s an example. I hate the time between writing books, right? So when I sat down and wrote Donte (65K in less than a month), I jumped in and wrote Taro (70K). And then I wrote Rafe (121K). And most of Keen (80K). When I couldn’t make the end of Keen work properly, I wandered from that into fanfic, and wrote Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained (44K). That went so well, I went on and wrote Shades and Hues (77K). All in a little more than a year.

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End-of-Project Desk-Cleaning

When I’m working on something, especially when I’m running out of time, little things like clearing off my desk just don’t happen. I don’t deal with things as they come to me; I deal with what MUST be done now and set the rest aside. In a pile. To the right of my monitor.

At the end of each project, of course, I have a big ol’ pile of God-knows-what to deal with. Writing materials of various shapes and uses, with or without notes that may still be important. Expired coupons I thought I’d use....

Changes

Y’alright. Blog’s gonna change. I’m sick of this layout.

Suggestions for things I should get rid of forever while I’m at it? Things you’d like to see? Toss ‘em down there in the comments.

In other news, spent the evening surfing around the community college’s website. I wanna go back to school! But I do not have a dependable car. I could start with online classes, but that would eat the money I’d need to get that car that I’m still gonna need eventually…

Anybody know any scholarships/financial a...

Small Talk? No Can Do.

Tonight I went out with a friend for a quick bite. I hadn’t seen her in a while, and was looking forward to catching up. Except…

I just sent a story off two days ago. Do you think I could think of a dang thing besides that to talk about?

Seriously, I’m horrible at small talk. It doesn’t matter if I care about the person (I did/do!) Once we get past “how’s it going?/Fine. How about you?/Oh, I’m fine” I’m pretty much done. I can’t talk about the weather because–well, Tucson. Hot. Sunny. Next.

Can’...

In Lieu of Anything Intelligent…

…have some half-awake ramblings from my 750 words this morning. Some of it is actually addressed to you, gentle reader, because I was attempting to come up with a blog post but I kept wandering off.

Good morning, my lovelies. Have I told you how terribly pleased I am with Lukas and Alan? Well, I am. Monstrously so. That story is SUCH FUN and we only made it better with the edit. We had a tight deadline and a lot of words, but we got through it. And it’s grandn.

Also grand. >.>

Yes, Cut. Must see...

Unexpurgated Claptrap

(Okay, maybe a little expurgating happened before I actually posted. But not much!)

Do marathon runners miss running? I was sitting here thinking how it felt to finally finish Lukas and Alan yesterday, and trying to describe the “omg, what?” feeling, the realization that I’ve stopped typing for a reason, and no, I don’t need to get back to work.

Last night I finished and I didn’t tell anyone at first. My awesome supportive roommate was right here and I didn’t tell her. My less-supportive-but-sh...

KD Sarge, Writing Slut?

You know how some writers are afraid editors will mess up their work? That’s not me, but there are other writers–or perhaps usually the same writers–who are determined to write what they want in every way. Whatever they want, and whether it’s pretentious codswallop or a non-linear hallucinatory memoir of their time in the Secret Octopus Service, they don’t want to be edited–and they don’t want to be told what to write.

Now, I’m a firm believer in editing. I love my betas and I send them virtua...

Stumbling On

I’m trying to get this story done. It is progressing! Just so slowly… I remember with fondness the days when I wrote 800 words every work day and about 2k on days I didn’t work. I try to tell myself I write better now, but I’m not sure that’s true. I mean yes, I’ve improved as a writer, but have I improved so much that it’s okay I spend ALL DAY but for four hours on a lousy 1k? WHEN I AM ALREADY PAST DEADLINE?

Sigh.

Anyway. That’s what I’m doing. My blog has been dark, my forums unvisited, and...

Always Nice

…when your stats take a nose-dive. It’s a really funny-looking dive, too. The graph looks like this over three days:

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Hmm…

Well, anyway. I noticed that Goodreads hasn’t been pulling my posts, and I wonder if my feed is somehow messed up and causing the issue. Anyone who actually got here (or did get this in your feed) having any trouble? Or is it just the internets telling me something?

Girls Can Be Geeks Too

So a while back I talked about the awesome Set Phasers to LOL. I barely mentioned then, and I’ve not mentioned a few times since, a truly annoying thing that keeps popping up. Sometimes it’s veiled. Sometimes it’s not so much.

see more Set Phasers To Lol

Get over this, okay? Because “girls” go to sci fi conventions. Plenty of “girls” love SF. You know why? Because plenty of girls have brains.

Now, I realize I’m reading a lot of assumptions into one macro made by one clueless, superior, slightly...