magicalbookworm

http://clayplotbunnies.googlepages.com/home the picture is second one down. :D

need some more ideas for bunnies though.

Ha made one finally! Picture kinda of flashed back on the white face he has.

http://magicalbookworm.googlepages.com/plushplotbunny.JPG

I'm not sure how much customized I could make one. (IE: Vampire, dancer, king, queen...) He needs the hat to hide his ear seems and to help them stand up. He can stand if you have a doll stand and he's about 20 inches with the ears.

I also need to work in my face making, his eyebrows went a bit werid.

A miniature pinscher! :D Already have a four year old one. Odd to have a puppy in the house again.

Youngest cat (pictured) is really put out. She's hid all day (under the kichen sink of all places!)

Started Unseen last month. Book 3 of the Guild books. Still working on Fairies about 30K into it.

Downloaded Ywriter and found it's helping me sort out where the characters are for Fairies. Normally my urban fantasies just take place in one cities, but Fairies is all over the place :|

Got a quick read back on Ghosts. The reader liked it. Said after a few more edits it would be ready for an agent. :D need to get back to editing now. (Sending her a clay plot bunny for reading the novel.)

Just finished reading:

The Skewed Throne and The Cracked Throne by Joshua Palmatier. Nice set of fantasy books. I'll have to get the 3rd book now.

Guess I should go work in Unseen some more. :)

Are the 'rules' of copy rights changing because of the internet?

I've been over at the Writers Wrules site for a few months and I started a discussion about posting writing on only password protected sites.

The site was made from a group of people that broke off of the Harper Collins Authonomy site. They are a site that allows writers to post their work for everyone to see. There's whole novels posted there. You then get reviews from the people there that pushes you toward an editor desk and from there a chance to get published. (I have no idea how many people have had this chance)

Now at the Writer's Wrules site you can password protected your writing. So people do have to sign into see your work. But then anyone can sign up.

Another site Scribophile has work that's opened to the public and work that is password protected, but anyone can sign up. You do have to pay to post more then three items though. (I did however get amazing crits at that site!) Again though – anyone can sign up and see the work.

Then there's the Forward Motion site. You can post chapters/shorts to the roving crit groups, but anyone can sign up and see them. The only place that is truly password protected are the private crit groups.

So the question comes back where is save to post your writing for a crit?

The people over at the Writer Wrules site say that the internet copy right issues are changing. That one shouldn't care that a novel is out in the open for everyone to see. More chance of some agent coming to the site and seeing what you have to offer etc…

I've always been told. Don't put your writing in a place where you don't need a password to get in. But if you're on a site where anyone can sign up and see what's their. Those people would still be able to take your writing. A person can sign up in seconds.

Does one need to find a group that limits the people that are allowed in? Like the Dreaming in Ink site? (They even send chapters through email rather then post them on the internet.)

Should one stay away from groups that allow you to post your work free to the public? Do agents and publishers down a day care if it's out in the open? Or do they still consider it published and they won't touch it?

I wish there was something that could tell me the right or wrong of this. I feel very confused about the issues. (I know it's come up more times then I can count.) But with the talk over at the Wrules site it seems to me that an invite only site is the safest place to post work.

This cold that hit last week has taken me down. I've only gotten a few hundred words here and there.

I'm near the end of the 2 book in the Guild seires and I knew I would slow down, but the cold has made any progress vanish.

I also haven't edited. Or done much in the way of crits. *sigh*

How does one get back to the writing after so many days of... not?

Maybe I'll start with a low goal of like 500 words and work my way back to 1500. (guess I should start today.)


On another note! I have been hanging out at a new crit site, I don't know if I've posted the link here or not.

At the site you can upload chapters of your novels and even make sure that they are password protected.

There's quiet a large group and the site is looking for even more writers! And any genre is welcome!

The site is:

http://www.writerswrule.com/

I'm the one with the clay plot bunny as an icon ;)

Writing writing and more writing...

just crossed page 14 of the outline and have 39 pages to go!

So far 184,737 words for the series.

hmm about 13K for each page of the outline that means I have about 500K more to go. Yesh - I shouldn't do the math for this series.

Yet slowly making progress. So that's good :)

Two books I've bought this month

Turn Coat - Jim Butcher

Bloodhound - Tamora Pierce

I loved both of them. The 11 book of the Dresden files was great!

The long waited book from Tamora was even better :D

Now what to read?

Is finished.
I've dragged myself through editing this novel. It's taken forever. While I wrote this novel I hated it, I thought that once I started editing it, I would be fine, I still dislike it - though I rather like the last few pages. ;)

But it's done. I'm not sure what I'll do with it. Maybe I'll post it over at http://www.writerswrule.com/ or add it to the list over at the novel club... hmm (strangly I'm still leaning toward the delete button, but if I didn't push it while I was editing I guess I shouldn't now.

Now to decide what else to edit... hmmm

I can't seem to help myself. I joined another group. It's a group for novels. I wasn't going to post anything, but I got lucky and talked to the creator of the site and he told me how to password protect anything I post.

Site is:

http://www.writerswrule.com/

Right now it's a very new group. It's free. You don't need to post crits to post your work, so right now it's running on a you read my work I'll read yours etc. I've read some first chapters on the group so far and they're rather good.

I still like the http://www.scribophile.com/ but the cost is making me stop from going any farther on the site. I might drop it and continue over at www.writerswrule.com

I joined www.scribophile.com/ and I love the site. Found out you have to have a pro account to post more then three things and thinking very hard if I want to spend 5 bucks a month for that.

On the other hand I've gotten some great crits there and suprisingly enough more on Peace then I would have thought. And the shocking part. Everyone likes it! (Dies)

This is the novel I've cursed at. The novel I've wanted to rip to peices. To delete and forget about it. To stop and never look at again (I've only done that twice) The novel that I - love the idea to, but still hate it for reasons I still have yet to find out. I dread opening this novel up and working on the edits because of the crazy phrases that are all over the place. Ones that make no sense at all and have me delete paragraphs and trying to decide what I really meant to say.

And 8 crits of people liking has my head spinning! I thought for sure everyone would feel the same as I did. But so far they like the Main character, Andry, the child of the Faye that has blue skin and is heading off to a human city to become the key to a peace between the Faye, Shide and humans.

50 pages of editing on the book and I don't want to even look at it. (sigh) I'm never going to get this novel done at this rate.

More designs at http://sites.google.com/site/wovenbracelets/ :D Hope the scans didn't turn out to dark. (Might just be my monitor.) Need to get some more designs, working on a cool pattern that I've tried a dozen times, but can't get it to work. Just printed out a color guide for it, so I hope I'll be able to get the pattern to work now. (Let's hope)

In another news I joined. http://www.scribophile.com/ I had never heard of it until today. Looks cool. You have to crit to get points to post. So it should keep out those that just post and post and never return a crit, right? I'm still poking around the site, seeing what's what.

I have some new pictures over at my site :)

http://sites.google.com/site/wovenbracelets/Home

Need to get a few more of all the differnet kinds of weaves.

http://sites.google.com/site/wovenbracelets/Home

So, how's it look?

I need more pictures.

I decided to start creating a page for the bracelets I'm making, but of course google had to go change their website maker :( now I have to learn to create one all over again.

Should have the site up in a few days (I hope)

106300 (really...!)
Nice to be done with the novel.
The ending is very cliff hanger-ish but there's no way to stop that. None of the books are going to be stand alones, I knew this.

Now to start on book two Faith of Vanished Gods. :D wee!

Guild book 1 has crossed the 100K mark. I've struggled this week to get words down. I always find myself slowing when I near the end of a novel. This one should be differnet though, I still have a good 500K to go. I just hope I can find the end soon and get started on book 2. That might give me a jump I need.

So, in turn, jumping between guild and fairies. (I'm still unsure about a set of characters I have and not sure how to change them around. maybe I'll just kill two of them... hmmm)

Editing however is not something that has been happening at all. I strangely feel bad about, I haven't touched, Ghosts, Mindnight, Battle Queen or Peace in MONTHS it feels like. Demons is still getting a line crit and I've gotten some nice feedback on Run - a novel that looks like it's going to need a lot more work then I thought it would. It might be placed in away for a little while while i continue to read through the crits some more.

Thankfully only one idea that has been bugging me, but I've been able to push it to the back of my mind for the time being. (Even if I would love to start something - fresh...) I don't think I could juggle three novels (four plus editing).

Now to run to the library.

(I need an Icon for the guild books... hmmm)

I'm heading closer to the end of the first book in the guild seires. 97K right now and I'm lost. I have no idea where book one ends and two starts. (Stupid outline - not breaking up the novels while the outline was built.)

97K though... i'm guess about 500K to go. *dies*

Had a fun thing happen over at the FMwriters.com chat room last night. We all decided to post snips. Very fun. Should see if we could make it a weekly or twice a month thing ;) (not that i would have that many things to post.) have such a hard time picking :\

Angel bunny and a ghost bunny. I like how the wings turned out.

I used some shinny paint so they look really nice

http://clayplotbunnies.googlepages.com/angelghostbunny.JPG

So just in the last few weeks I've realized how much I use "at that" in writing. I just took out hundreds from Battle queen. I thought I was doing good with Guild and I just did a search for the first half of book one and there's tons! Yesh!

Delete

Delete

I'm scared to open up Run and see how many are in that novel. I should do a search on Demons too... eep! At least it's an easy fix.

Delete

Delete


*dies* I just took out over 500 words of "at that" in book of the guild books.

Crit group opening.

My crit group over at fmwriters.com has four openings.

Here's the link to the page. (if you don't see it you'll need to log into the site.)

http://www.fmwriters.com/community/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=36&topic_id=1436&mesg_id=1436&page=

Crafts:

I got my Kumihimo loom in the mail today. Just started a braid while watching fringe. I love it! Need to find some pattern books for it now :) or even better some free sites with some patterns.