Submission Pt. 1

I finally did it.

Believe it or not, I completed my Sci-Fi erotica novel Kalynth Sun.

I failed in my attempt to complete my novel via NanoWriMo but the damned little group had a purpose--it jarred me into action. I started writing and organizing and planning and thinking. Amazing things happened. I wrote without worry. I laughed and liked a lot of it. Is this the flow? After a couple of weeks, I had a story with a heroine, a conflict, a hero and a villain. I submitted it today and felt total terror as I did so. I spent a few hours in a quasi-state of paralytic shock then snapped out of it and began writing something else. Moving on!

I realize only now that the word 'submission' is very appropriate. I submit to the Fates whether or not my story is to this e-publisher's liking. I have never been this close to my little chunk of The Dream before. Will it break off in my hand and crumble to dust and fall through my fingers in the wind? Will it hold and enable me to get another good grip and pull myself up even higher?

I guess all that remains to be seen. I'll know May 21st. That's 120 days. That little worm in my head named Curiosity has 120 days to wriggle it's way to the forefront of my brain.

2004 Footnote

If you are really bored and reading my blog from the beginning like a total nerd (like, I would NEVER do that...snort) you will notice that there are limited entries for the early years of my blog. But I did blog more than that. I simply removed the entries that were either so shitty they embarrassed me or those that were irrelevant to my writing, me as a writer, or something book-related.

Resolutions

A great philosopher once said, "Shit or get off the pot."

This is my resolution of sorts for 2005.
It's a schedule for my oldest five or six projects. These are the novels I want to focus on almost exclusively until I start on anything else. These stories are more than ten years old. Ug, that hurts typing that.

Kalynth Sun
Blade Dancer--needs a new title as there is already a work with this title
Kore
Saved
Hazard Street
The Tempest

We'll see how it goes and whether or not I can stick to this.

Anniversary

Some things are worth fighting for.

This Halloween I will be married for six years. I love my wedding date/anniversary date, because it represents more than just a love for my husband. My husband is a very one-of-a-kind, rare, unique soul.

And I had to fight to make my marriage happen. I eloped with him on a very romantic dusky Halloween under a full moon. If I had waited for everyone's approval, I'd be single, dead...or worse.

No dramatizing, it's just that my marriage, (an event in a woman's life that traditionally nullifies what little independence women have of their own), actually gave me back more than I had to start with. I stood up and asserted my vertebrate self to the world. It was the gladest I've ever been to have a spine. I kept my name not because it's the greatest name in the world or because I hate my husband's name, it's simply that it's mine.

I know, hear me roar...or howl rather.

My Writer Blog

Lookie! A writer blog!

:)

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Now, what do I do with it?