My LOUDEST BLOG EVER

Why do I say this is my loudest blog yet? Because I have so much to cover that I might scream. Really.

FROM THE TOP:
I finished the revisions on Dragonsbane. There were some mistakes that I missed, names and such, but those can be fixed in a few hours of work. The two biggest errors came from using placeholders for different things and not notating them properly. As such there were still instances of 'Wolf' where it should be 'Iris' and 'Orpheus, Titania' where it should be 'Stone Cliff, Centralis'. The other issue was when my placeholders for the city and country got swapped. My solution? Use Word's find and replace to change all instances of Orpheus, Titania, Stone Cliff, and Centralis to PANCAKES. You heard me, hot and steamy PANCAKES. I figure I'll just use the find tool again to just sift through and fix them to the proper context. Done and done.

And then I did something reckless, downright irresponsible.

I sent the whole thing to a publisher, uncorrected. Following my savage instincts, I printed all three hundred... Correction, SIX HUNDRED DOUBLE SPACED PAGES, to DAW in hopes that they'll like me enough to not laugh at me.
(If you are wondering about the 300 then 600 pages... Well, I missed in their directions where they said double space the silly thing.)
So I sent that out and wait. Why wait? Well they have rules and rules are meant to be followed. Rule is that you can send them an unsolicited manuscript, meaning that you don't have to send a letter asking IF they want it first, but there's a catch. That catch is that if you send it to them, you can't submit it anywhere else for three months OR until you get a letter from them saying "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN THE BATHROOM DAY AND NIGHT? WHY DON'T YOU GET OUT OF THERE AND GIVE SOMEONE ELSE A CHANCE?"
I doubt that's what the letter will say, but I'd appreciate rejected in the form of Mel Brooks references. A boy can dream.
So now I wait. I figure I'll either get a letter or I figured out that I can start pestering new people within a week after Persona 5 releases.

On other fronts, I finally found another game that emotionally drained me. Final Fantasy XV. Played it, finished it, loved it. I saw a twist or two coming, but they still beat tears out of me. Even the ending. Man, ouch. Jeez.
I'm working more and more on Dragonsbane Pt 2. I was struggling a few months ago with the titles of each novel. I tried writing down a TON of different names and styles and ideas and etc. But nothing stuck. Finally, I took note of how Sonata Arctica, my favorite band, has been doing follow-ups to old songs and adding 'Pt 2: subtitle'. Like 'White Pearl, Black Oceans Pt2: By the Grace of the Sea'. So in homage, I hope to be able to do Dragonsbane Pt2 and Pt3, but I won't reveal the subtitles yet.
I have a lot of the groundwork covered and some of the construction themes for one of the main settings this time. I had to do more research, but I like this setting more and more as I go on. It might seem cliched, but aw well. People will get over it some how.

What else can I ramble on?

Ah yeah.

So I entered a short story contest that proves ready to kick my teeth in. Not really, but I'm a hair out of my league. How so? Well, I have to write within word limits and with three focuses. Genre, idea, character. easy peesy, write? (Get it?) WRONG. I got an unfamiliar genre right off the bat and had to read some articles. I was fairly certain I've never read anything in this category, but after review, I have. A LOT. I hope to win this round and move on to win the contest. It takes a few months, so... WiSh Me LuCk.

I'm trying to keep up this once a month bit, and I think it's going well. I mean, I don't have much to say at any given moment, so... Yeah.

Anyway, toodles. Come back next month or whenever for more of me!