July 2012
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Blergh. *eyes cross*
Well, I’ve gotten two chapters edited on Secrets but one of them was a chapter that I had to split in half so I’m only one ahead, not two. And the split chapter(s) are tough ones where I have a ton of stuff I didn’t spell out originally that needs to be spelled out.
*whines*
My legs are stiff, my butt’s sore and my arms are tired. Not to mention the tired, crossing eyes.
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June 2012
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Got another chapter of Secrets edited and done! \o/
Granted this one had mostly positive comments with very little that needed to be fixed according to my editor and it was wall to wall sex so it wasn’t as hard as the last two.
Sadly, a couple of his comments would require my writing another story, completely separate from Secrets, to describe Edge City’s kinky history and culture....
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Ahhhh, I feel so wishy-washy!
*laughs* I keep looking at the prices on my previous post and second-guessing them. New version below (ebook only since pbooks are really restrictive on prices): <25K = $2.99 50K = $3.99 75K = $4.99 >100K = $5.99 *ponders* That makes me more comfortable. I still don’t know what to do about stories that are say 3K to 15K but I highly doubt that I’ll try and sell any that are less...
chaoticwaltz asked: You are worth every word of love. worth every good deed, worth every smile, every tear of joy. You are worth the suns rays and the warm air, you are worth the happiness and the laughter. You are worth everything good and beautiful, Give everyone and anyone this message, go to random blogs, someone you don’t even know, stretch your ask limit, anon or not, tell them they are worth it. Because...
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More Thoughts on Pricing
I read a great article on book pricing for self-publishersthat made me rethink my plan for very low prices on my ebooks. He had some really good points about how low prices make random consumers think of products (poorly, pretty much universally poorly) and some good solid advice on how to set up your pricing. It starts with the paper book prices and then you set your ebook prices in relation to...
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*Fist bump*
I have finished not one but two chapters of Secrets tonight!
…What? It doesn’t matter that they started out as one chapter. It’s still two chapters total. *nods firmly*
I got Juraj to earn his right to go to the college AND I think I improve the chapter where he has his dramatic discovery of the solution to the problem.
Now I’m off to bath and bed because darn it, I...
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*sighs and droops*
Well, Chapter 21 of Secrets is now two chapters.
Having gotten rid of the whole Save the Sea Dragon bit, I had to make Juraj and Besim earn their access to the king and then their access to the College. I think that’s better and more believable for the story, if a lot harder for the writing side of things.
I’d hoped to avoid splitting the chapter but I think it will help make the...
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There has been no new fiction since last week.
This makes me feel bad.
Well, sort of bad. Not really bad, just a little bit argh, why can I not find time? With mild waving of fists at the universe but they’re kind of half-hearted.
It’s not a really bad feeling honestly.
You see, I have a deadline on my novel.
Secrets of the Artificer Mages has to be done with the edits by July 15th. I have 11 chapters left. Weekends absolutely...
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*tired sigh*
Chapter 19 is done! It’s the one that had the whole encounter with the sea dragon baby.
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There so no encounter with the sea dragon baby anymore. *sadface* My editor quite rightly pointed out that it didn’t serve much of a purpose in the story other than to indulge my liking for the sea dragons and to make Takeo look cool.
Things have been rewritten to work better which...
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Hmm, there's a lot of variation on prices for...
There really is.
I’ve been looking at Smashwords and sort of scoping out how much people charge for their writing.
For something that’s under 20,000 words the price can be anywhere from free to $9.99. And the length of the piece is no predictor to how much the author charges.
I saw some free things that were nearly 20K and others that were under 1K. I saw a 5K story for $0.99 and...
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wisiaden answered your question: *Is Proud*
I’ll take a stab for reading.
Cool! Send me an email address in an ask or fanmail and I’ll send it right over to you. Thank you so much! *huge hug* :D
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sassyladythegeek answered your question: *Is Proud*
ME! Not sure how helpful I would be-you would prolly know if I’m what you need based on my comments. But I’m AWESOME at...
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*Is Proud*
Whew! I’ve finished the total rewrite of City of the Ladies after three days of effort. :D
It went from 2700 words to 10,300 words so far. *boggles*
There was a lot of stuff in the background that I didn’t spell out the first time and that needed to be developed this time. I’m happy with it so far but I’m going to need someone to beta it for me. Possibly a couple of...
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lectorel replied to your post: Whoot!
I’m trying to teach myself digital art, and I’m not entirely terrible at it. Depending on what you’re thinking for the cover, I might be able to do it- and I’d be willing to do it for free, to save you a little money.
Oooo, I might take you up on that! I’m absolutely terrible at art so I’ll have to think about it and send you something...
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Whoot!
Chapter 19a (also known as Chapter 28 of 40) is done! \o/
I’m going to work on getting another chapter done later or maybe I’ll work on rewriting The City Of The Ladies, which I’ve decided is the first thing I’m going to put up as an ebook.
It started out as 2700 words. It’s currently at 6600 words and I’m not done yet. I think it’ll end up around 10K to...
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wisiaden replied to your post: wisiaden replied to your post: *Growl* Goddamn…
That sucks. I wonder if you can put in the option to correct the autocorrect.
Nope. I tried that too. It wouldn’t let me do it, which sucks even worse. Literally, after an hour and a half the only thing that worked was to shut autocorrect as you type off entirely. Which is flatly ridiculous and making me...
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wisiaden replied to your post: *Growl* Goddamn autocorrect!
Does this link help? answers.yahoo.com/quest…
Nope. I tried both of the answers there. It’s Word 2010 and apparently they coded it in or something because the combo is not on the autocorrect list at all but it still autocorrects it. Very, very frustrating. *grumbles*
somehowunbroken replied to your post: *Growl* Goddamn...
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*Growl* Goddamn autocorrect!
Hour and a half lost to trying to stop the umlaught from appearing. An hour and a fucking half.
I still don’t know how to stop it properly. I ended up having to turn autocorrect as you type off entirely, which sucks because there are things that I do want autocorrected as I typed. I just don’t want umlaughts to appear on the top of every single one of my vowels when I start a...
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Aaaaaagh! GODAMN YOU AUTOCORRECT!
*rages*
Stop replacing “A with ä! Stop it, stop it, stop it! I don’t use the goddamned umlaught! I don’t need the goddamned umlaught! I shouldn’t have to spend a fucking hour trying to figure out how to turn it off when I’ve got my computer keyboard and word program set for US English!!!!
*Rages more*
This, this, this…! *Splutter*
Stop it right the fuck now!...
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“The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you...”
– The danger of worldviews (Speaking when the world sleeps)
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Huh.
I can type about 20 words per minute. You know, on average when I’m not interrupted by people bothering me.
Useless fact is useless. *laughs*
Non-useless fact is that Chapter 19 is edited. Well, the first half of 19 as I cut it in half and expanded it. Chapter 19a is yet to be done. I’m hopeful to get it done tonight.
Either way, back to work for me!
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wisiaden replied to your photo: My hair, post-cut. So much better! :D
I like your hair, the curls~ My hair is really straight, especially after a wash.
XD I like the curls now, but hated them when I was younger. My hair isn’t straight even if I brush it out or when it’s sopping wet. *wry smile* I always wanted smooth, sleek straight hair. *sighs* I guess we all want what we...
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Off to see Brave!
Whee! 8D
Gotta love a story with a character that has hair as curly as mine. XD
See you guys when I get back (and maybe I’ll do some live-writing through Google, depending on how wired the movie makes me).
*scampers away*
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willayork replied to your post: :D
you know if you use firefox there’s an option to sync your settings/favs etc I’ve not really been around so idk if this is b/c your old comp died or something but I managed to do this between my 1footinthegrave old laptop and new
I do use firefox but the old computer’s hard drive fried. Completely. It was a true crash, bad enough that the computer guys at...
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batchix replied to your photo: My hair, post-cut. So much better! :D
looks awesome! :D :D :D
Thanks sweetie! It feels so much better, really, just so much better. I get used to it when it’s longer but eventually it hits a point where I can’t stand it anymore. That was the longest its been since Junior High. Much better now though. XD
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I’m on my brand new laptop! *cheers*
Of course, I have a billion favorites to set up and programs to update and so much to learn but it’s still shiny and new and lovely. I am a happy, happy girl.
I’m also a hungry girl though so I’m going to take a break from computer setup and go make myself some dinner.
*Happy dance*
So glad I have my own computer again! \o/
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*kermit flailing*
My laptop has arrived! *squees and hugs it*
Unfortunately it’s not yet 10:00 am here and I have to work until 4:30. :|
I have to wait until I get to play with it.
And you know, get all the updates and programs on it and all that jazz.
I predict a busy night full of computer setup tonight. Which is a pity since I really want to do writing, not computer setup.
Oh well, laptop is here and...
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Laptop Woes:
hushicho replied to your post: T^T again
I’m so, so sorry :(
Thank you so much! It’s a pity but the new one is on the way.
robinless replied to your post: T^T again
I do back-ups of the whole content every two months or so, and back-ups of important files every week. My last hard-drive got roasted too and I’ve been trying to be careful ever since.
I’m not that...
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My new laptop has shipped! (Random post is...
*cheers and squeals with delight*
It should be here on Friday, here being work because no way am I having it sit on the porch at home all day. >:| You can fully expect that I’ll be twitchy waiting for it all day Friday. And then comes the joy of restoring all my programs and bookmarks. Whee. Not.
But still, new laptop tomorrow! I’m glad. My hubby’s computer is just not the...
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And now for bedtime
Lest I decide that my voice is too horrible to leave on the internet and delete the voice post before anyone can listen to it. #^^# What can I say? I’ve always been a little shy about how deep and gruff my voice is. I tend to automatically pitch it higher when I’m talking to people at work. I have, in the past, been mistaken for a guy before someone looked. More than once. *sigh*
...
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Me reading the Noir chapter ‘Glimpse’...
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Gah! Goddamn autocorrect!
I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!
Stop changing my straight quotes to curly quotes, darn it! *flails*
I don’t like using my hubby’s computer to write. He’s got it set up all wrong. >:(
(And I know he’ll have a fit if I change it too.)
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*nods thoughtfully*
If/when I put my non-kinky stories out as ebooks, sometime after I finish editing Secrets, I’ve pretty much decided that I’ll offer them as physical books for a price that really won’t give me anything. That might in fact break even.
Why?
Because some readers like the physical copy.
Simple as that. I don’t expect that I’ll earn money on paper books. I don’t...
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T^T again
My hard drive is toast, complete and absolute toast. My computer friend wasn’t able to get anything off of it.
He did think that a new hard drive could be installed but with the new computer on the way I don’t see that happening.
Bummer… it’s all gone. *whines*
I guess that’s just a cause to remind everyone to back up their computers frequently.
So please do!
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wisiaden replied to your post: T^T
That was unlucky, but I guess your laptop had a pretty long life? at the same time. *hugs*
So unlucky but yes, it did last a good long while. A new one has been ordered. My project for today is to get our computer guy here to see if he can rescue my files.
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amethystamore replied to your post: T^T
That still sucks though D:
It so does! T_T
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My laptop just died!
*cries*
I was sitting on Tumbler while my hubby practiced tying his hakama for the seminar he’s going to tomorrow and my laptop started making this funky siren noise. It locked up so hard I had to pop the battery and when I tried to restart it, it said there was no bootable drives.
*A*
We’ve got money set aside for home renovations so it’s not a hit...
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Pfffft, yet another reason I prefer ebooks
So I went and looked at Amazon’s preferred Print On Demand (POD) company for publishing your own book.
Mmmmm. Yeah.
If I wanted to put Daughter of Chaos (DOC) out as a POD physical book I’d have to pay a fixed $0.85 per book printed. There’s a $0.012 charge per page, which for a 6” x 9” book would be 465 pages (possibly a little more or less with formatting...
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I have a headache.
I believe I’ll take aspirin in a minute. /random
Or maybe begin the random. I’m not sure. Headache, you know.
Either way, sometimes I think about self-publishing some of my other original stories. You know, the non-kinky ones. Like Life At The Manor or all the stories in the Daughter of Chaos ‘verse. They’re good stories, though I’d want to edit them before I posted...
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Daddy: Infection (DCU AU Daddy 'Verse Gen)
I finally managed to figure out the plot for the Daddy ‘Verse! *cheers* It’s been forever, partially because I had to figure out the WTF-ness that is No Man’s Land and how it happens in this ‘verse. Which, just so you know, doesn’t happen very much at all like it does in canon; this story sort of glances at canon and then goes its own merry way where logic exists and...
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avanalae replied to your post: :|
D: Nooooo. :C
*snuggles you* It’ll be okay in the end, I promise. Really and for true. Dick just can’t help but get himself into trouble when someone’s upset.
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:|
I think Dick’s going to get the Clench. Not Tim. Darn Dick for being completely incapable of resisting the need to comfort those who are afraid and possibly dying.
:(
Sadly, that would mean that I need to rewrite this chapter so that it’s from Dick’s POV but that’s okay. I can do that.
Dick, darn it, don’t go hugging the plague victim. Seriously now! *wibbles*
(I...