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Dec. 12th, 2005 07:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeAHAHHAH hoo boy. I'm PMSing again, I can tell.
I am also going to kill a certain someone if he writes me one more story in Photoshop. Fucking hell. That's what Word Pad is for if you don't have MS Word. Or any of a half dozen word processors I could give him if he bloody well asked. Does he? No. Madre de dios.
On the plus side, the coat is cut out. Probably won't get sewn for a bit, but the coat is cut out. The Shadowrun game was postponed till a week or so after New Year's due to everyone's schedules not synching up as I'd wanted. C'est la vie. Writing and editing continues apace.
I'm contemplating writing a romance novel. Again. Those of you who've been around for the past ... let's see. Five years? Know that I've done this at least once before, maybe twice. I hate Harlequin novels. And I hate trying to write for them, but they make money. It's not even that drastic a hate, despite the italics, its' an inability to write or read a romance novel without realizing that I can't stand my protagonist. Romance novels, like pulp detective novels, are comprised of cardboard cutouts of people acting like real people. They conform to a formula, and people buy them expecting a formula. I just... guh. I've never been able to write to this formula yet. I always get disgusted with my own characters and stop. But hey. Unless someone can tell me what the major publisher of pulp detective novels is, the equivalent to Harlequin for that genre, I'm going to figure that Harlequin is probablyeasy money more of a sure thing.
Come to think of it, I'm not a big fan of formula novels in general. I just like noir/'tec better than romance. Which is kind of like preferring boxed mac and cheese to Ramen. Heh.
Moo. So, yeah. Romance novel. It'd probably be easier if I was trying to write one in general instead of trying to sell to a line, but ...moo. I've got two other novels I'm working on for pleasure, one for half pleasure. This one might as well be for money. Heh. I'm selling out and I haven't even sold any novels yet.
Okay, time to dwell on something happy. Um. I'm slowly crossing out items on my to-do list, and actaully most of the things I have still on there are things I'm consistently working on day to day. Editing. Writing. So there's that. Hell week ends this Saturday. After that... buh. I relax. I paint minis, I sew. I finish editing and submit before I lose my nerve. Hm. Maybe I should do some more short stories. Hah. I could watch some of the DVDs I've accumulated and, you know, never watched. Or the books I've never read. Yeah. That sounds like a damn good idea.
I am also going to kill a certain someone if he writes me one more story in Photoshop. Fucking hell. That's what Word Pad is for if you don't have MS Word. Or any of a half dozen word processors I could give him if he bloody well asked. Does he? No. Madre de dios.
On the plus side, the coat is cut out. Probably won't get sewn for a bit, but the coat is cut out. The Shadowrun game was postponed till a week or so after New Year's due to everyone's schedules not synching up as I'd wanted. C'est la vie. Writing and editing continues apace.
I'm contemplating writing a romance novel. Again. Those of you who've been around for the past ... let's see. Five years? Know that I've done this at least once before, maybe twice. I hate Harlequin novels. And I hate trying to write for them, but they make money. It's not even that drastic a hate, despite the italics, its' an inability to write or read a romance novel without realizing that I can't stand my protagonist. Romance novels, like pulp detective novels, are comprised of cardboard cutouts of people acting like real people. They conform to a formula, and people buy them expecting a formula. I just... guh. I've never been able to write to this formula yet. I always get disgusted with my own characters and stop. But hey. Unless someone can tell me what the major publisher of pulp detective novels is, the equivalent to Harlequin for that genre, I'm going to figure that Harlequin is probably
Come to think of it, I'm not a big fan of formula novels in general. I just like noir/'tec better than romance. Which is kind of like preferring boxed mac and cheese to Ramen. Heh.
Moo. So, yeah. Romance novel. It'd probably be easier if I was trying to write one in general instead of trying to sell to a line, but ...moo. I've got two other novels I'm working on for pleasure, one for half pleasure. This one might as well be for money. Heh. I'm selling out and I haven't even sold any novels yet.
Okay, time to dwell on something happy. Um. I'm slowly crossing out items on my to-do list, and actaully most of the things I have still on there are things I'm consistently working on day to day. Editing. Writing. So there's that. Hell week ends this Saturday. After that... buh. I relax. I paint minis, I sew. I finish editing and submit before I lose my nerve. Hm. Maybe I should do some more short stories. Hah. I could watch some of the DVDs I've accumulated and, you know, never watched. Or the books I've never read. Yeah. That sounds like a damn good idea.