I know it's been a while, but nothing exciting or eventful has been going on in my life lately.
Which led me to go through my referrers for my site. I get a lot of hits from this one site because as it turns out they are hotlinking my smilies. ?! Which is weird because I have an anti-hotlink script on this site and you can only see them on this other person's site if they are already in your cache. Then I looked closer and realized they are stealing my blog posts as well. ???!!!! Changing bits and pieces of some, mostly copying. How creepy is that??! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!
Okay, now I feel better. It's just been creeping me out more and more. Yeesh.
Anyway. What else has been going on in my life? Hey, I already said I had nothing! I just re-remembered how to spell the word "led". I swear I don't think I had any idea that was a real word. Egads!
Oh, I started to write another novel. I don't want to jinx it by talking about it too soon, but it seems to be going well. I only let myself work on it 2 days a week because it gets me all hyper and jittery and then I can't sleep. It's like being on some drug. I love to write! I'd follow my muses right through the night and back to daylight again. And I can't do that, cuz I have a day job now. Yeeks. I don't let myself write before bed either.
I just killed a spider. Yuck.
I decided the week is like this wave. This thing that crescendos up and then crashes early morning Saturday. Then starts up again on Monday, growing into this huge thing. I thought I should write just before the peek of the crescendo. Wednesday and Thursday. Then Friday I am super busy and don't get to bed until 3 a.m., which is when the wave crashes. Or me.
I crash. All weekend long I sit and behave like a zombie. Until it's time to go build up the wave again with Monday. Pretty cool, no? It seems to be working pretty good so far. I don't want to work on my writing on the weekend because 1. I have to crash. I'm exhausted. And 2. when I work on creative things on the weekend I get really agitated about having a real job and having to go back to it on Monday. And sometimes on Sunday night I don't sleep AT ALL. That kept happening when I used the weekends to make videos, for instance. It's like I get a buzz that won't stop. Which I said, I know. But the hating of work thing is just too much to take. Some nice quiet obsessive watching of DVDs works a lot better for me on weekends. Plus dragging my butt off my comfy chair to go hang out with my friend too. Good good. Oh, I have to go write down a story idea I had for a future book. And one I had the other day for another future book. Wanna know how I go about writing books? Cuz everyone has a different method, I'm sure. Lately here is how I do it. I jot down notes whenever I think of something "brilliant!". Heh. I put them in a folder. It takes a year or so to pile up enough of them so I really know what the book is about. Although with my 2nd novel I came up with the entire story from start to finish in detail in 2 days and then immediately started to write. Pretty weird. Pretty unusual. Wow. For me. Or maybe anyone! I don't know. Then when I have enough notes, I .... make an outline. Which, okay, is where I'm at now. Then I make a schedule of writing, cuz I'm a geek. And I plan to write one scene per day, whichever days I've scheduled to write on. I even have an end date in sight, of when the book will be officially finished. Then it goes through this obsessive compulsive amount of proofreading. Okay, I'm bored, I'll tell you. I read through it once looking for obvious errors and correct them. Spelling, whatnot. I print it out - or I'm planning to this time because WOA were there mistakes in the first printed/published/bound/hard copy of Mandra. Yeesh! Then I'll read it again, and correct stuff - cuz you always notice more on paper than onscreen. Then I'll make the PDF for publication, and yes, print it out again and proofread it. Then, lo and behold, it's ready to be published! Oh-ho-ho, you thought it was over, didn't you? Nope. Then I create a cover, publish the book, order a copy, and..... proofread it again! If I find flaws that I can't stand, I revise and republish the darn thing. Then, yes, order it again, proofread it again, proceed to find a dozen errors I don't know how I missed before, but decide that I can live with them, cuz DAMMIT, I've had enough proofreading! And then the horrors of creating an html ebook begin. Mostly horrors because I have to - gulp - proofread it again. In html ebook form. ACK!
But then I'm happy and it's all good.
I need to cut my toenails. Random.
Anyway. Maybe I should eat dinner sometime soon. Zone Alarm has a really weird new logo that is totally tripping me out even though it's only slightly different than their old logo. HMMMmmm.... Yeah, I thought jump. It's true. Oh, that reminds me of the days of Thought Jumper.... what was that? Old message board associations. Hee.....! That was an inside joke possibly only to me. Actually it should have been all lower case, but you don't know that. Damn, I'm weird. Hehe. Really. And I sure am happy lately. I don't know why. Possibly because I started writing a book again. It's been a damn long time. Seven years. Whew! Time flies.
Oh, I didn't have a chance to write down my dreams in my paper diary today, cuz the alarm clock went off and there was no radio station there, so nothing woke me up. Bummer. I'm gonna turn my clock radio to the fuzz between stations. That way when a station is for some reason off the air, I can still get a wake up alarm in the morning! Geez! And first it wasn't loud enough and blahbittyblah, I kept having to adjust it so it would wake me up. And then today the whole darn thing is gone. Damn reality! Ha! It's still the weekend.
I'm good.I think I'm gonna go now. It's getting to be about that time. The time when I should stop babbling.
Yup. Later.
Chris on 07.07.06 @ 06:22 pm [link]