Fiction Friday, Part 2 :: "Unexpected"

Note :: This story was originally written on 31 October 2010.  It's another bit of character and world development for Laikhostra.  This time, we get a bit more on Kerai's mate, Zandra, and the relationship they share.

Fiction Friday, Part 1 :: "Precision"

Posting a day late again, but it's still within 24 hours, so I say it's still good. :)


Note :: This story was originally written on 31 October 2010.  It's another bit of character and world development for Laikhostra.  This time, we get a bit of an introduction to Kerai's mate, Zandra, and the relationship they share.

Summer has arrived!

Well, we've definitely hit the summer weather here in Puget Sound!  For the record, I'm not much for weather much higher than about 75F.  Once it hits 90F or higher, I'm done.  Heat can cause migraines for me, so there you go.

But we're currently sporting a temp of 79F, just edging out of my comfort zone.  Thankfully my home office is in the basement, so it takes quite a bit of heat to make it miserable down here.  And we do have 4 different portable/window A/C units if they're absolutely needed.  We haven't had to use them in at least 3 years now, so I consider that a good thing.

One thing I will say about the hotter summer temps is that they can play into BD's odd sleep patterns.  Case in point: Before going to bed at 0600 this morning, she put some chicken in the oven to bake low and slow while it was cool.  I woke up at 0730 to the lovely aroma of baking chicken and took it out of the oven at 0800.  Of course, I had to nibble a bit to make sure it was fully cooked.  The rest will be shredded and included in BD's enchilada casserole that is so very yummy!

Have been working on some of my goals for Ready, Set, Write this weekend.  Fiction Friday didn't get posted yesterday due to a few different reasons that I don't want to get into right now, but I'll be doing both last week's story and this week's story as soon as I post this one up.  Have had a nice talk with my Podfic Poetry partner today, so know where to start on that.  And I still have plans for working on the Elliquiy and Epic goals this weekend yet, plus maybe a couple others. We'll see how that goes.

So how's your weekend going?

What's Up Wednesday for 26 June 2013

Welcome to the inaugural post for "What's up Wednesday" at Vibrant Scribbles.  This is going to [hopefully] be my weekly post to keep on track with my goals and such.  Well, and let y'all know what it is I'm up to currently.  So let's get started, shall we?


What I'm Reading

• Journalution: Journal Writing to Awaken Your Inner Voice, Heal Your Life, and Manifest Your Dreams 
• The Art Journal Workshop: Break Through, Explore, and Make it Your Own
• People of the Lakes

As you can see from the first two books, I've been doing a lot of research into the whole art journaling phenomenon, as well as smashbooking/junk journaling, as a way of expanding on my creativity.  I love finding new ways to explore creativity and inspiration, so there you go.  The last book is a reread.  I've been slowly rereading the entire series of books by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear in order, as my first read of them was wildly out of order.  It's amazing the parallels you can see when you read them in order. LOL!

What I'm Writing
Right now, I'm not doing nearly enough writing.  Am hoping to start fixing that this week.  Oh, I'm getting wordcount goals, but it's mostly due to some RP I've been doing, not "marketable" work.  Granted, the RP work is character development and background for some fannish work I've got going, but again, that's not marketable work because I'm a firm proponent of the "no money for fanfic" rule.

There are several irons I'd like to get into the fire this week, all of which are going to be my Ready, Set, Write goals for this week.  Some of these are holdovers from the last set of goals I'd created in my previous post for my first week of Ready, Set, Write, and will continue to be so until they're fulfilled.  I managed to get one of the four goals completed, which was signing up and getting vetted over at Elliquiy. I haven't done anything over there yet, but I was working on a different project that required my time. Now it's time to start working on writing over there.

Ready, Set, Write!

So I've signed up for this project, thanks to Nicole prodding me over on Twitter last night.  It's a perfect way for me to rejuvenate this blog AND get my original fiction writing going strong again.  Better to try and fail than not to try at all, right?

So here's my list of goals for this first, partial week of Ready, Set, Writer.

• Work through my "possible submissions" sites to find at least 3 good matches to work with in the coming week
• Sign up over at elliquiy to get my vetting process started there
• Pull out the Laikhostra story files & start looking at where I need to go next
• Read one of the book preview copies I have & write/post a review of it

That's a lot of goals to accomplish by Tuesday, but if I get off my butt, I can do it.  I can't consider myself a professional writer if I'm not doing any professional writing, can I?  No, I didn't think so...

Fiction Friday :: "Ritual"

So I'm a little late on the Friday part of it, but I've decided to start doing this wonderful Friday Fiction idea that I learned about fro a friend on twitter.

Note :: This story was originally written on 31 October 2010.  It's another bit of character and world development for Laikhostra, this time centered on Kerai, one of the main characters, and the religious beliefs she ascribes to.