Tag: October

I had made plans, dammit

AM Devine

I had made a great plan for myself and then life promptly kicked me in the ass.

Needless to say, those plans had a bit of a wrench thrown in them by my slowly adapting to the new meds I’m on for my various issues. The ADHD meds have given me enough blocks that I am having trouble writing again, and of course it happened right as I was planning to put nose to the grindstone and bust out three novellas in 9 months. As of right now, They’re being pushed back with the release of the omnibus being aimed for halloween of next year. On the original plan, the omnibus was meant to be released in July of next year – but I’m less than 10 days from the first planned release date and I’m nowhere near ready with the first story’s complete second draft. At this point in time, I should be formatting and getting the cover finalized, and I’m absolutely not ready to even say it’s a solid draft, much less a complete one.

I’m worried that my writing creativity has mostly dried up with the adhd meds, whereas my artsy creativity seems to have fully reappeared. As such, I have actually started poking around in photoshop again and I will be thoroughly honest, I’d forgotten exactly how much I love to do that sort of thing.

As such, I have started a redbubble shop, and I can be found at https://www.redbubble.com/people/amdevine – I make a lot of moons, and text based things, though I am about to start getting into geometric patterns. I am looking into a zazzle shop as well, though Zazzle’s uploading system is a piece of shit, and it’s really hard to tell what the hell the products are while you’re trying to set them up for sale.

Truthful Thursday 0002

AM Devine

Hi folks, AM Devine here, popping in to say a quick hello and to give you a probably way too long life-website-writing update.

LIFE:

If you’ve been around a while, or got bored and read the archives, then you’ll know I’ve got a nice quiet job now. Well, a nice job now. Sometimes it’s not so quiet, but that’s okay. I mentioned in the past that I was glad to have a job that was going to be a Monday through Friday thing, and while I am glad to be here, we’ve yet to actually make it to the Monday through Friday part. Why? Because one of the shifts doesn’t have someone to work it. It’s generally a hard shift to fill anyway, and it’s been since January that they’ve been trying to get it filled. Twice they’ve thought they had someone and twice it has been a bust. Even if they hired someone tomorrow, it wouldn’t be until January that they’d be ready for their shift.

The medical things I was trying to take care of didn’t quite work out the way I was hoping they would, but I did come out with a diagnosis of three things, and hopefully I’ll be able to start actually getting that under control as time goes by. I’m also going to be reattempting to line myself back up for a near total gluten free life again. I felt so much better while I was doing that a couple of years ago that I’m planning on doing it again.

WRITING:

NaNoWriMo 2016 is SPACE THEMED, and basically I can’t get over how badass that is. Don’t mind me. I freaking love space. Space is so seriously up there in my list of favorite things it’s kinda crazy. (I’m aiming to buy all the gear this year. I mean… is anyone actually surprised?)

I’m going to be doing a lot more than what I’ve got listed on the NaNoWriMo website this year, mostly because I’m trying to get a project together for TOR’s submission window, and while I know the whole plot and could probably crank out a thousand words per day on it – I’ve got NaNoWriMo things to get done as an ML. So I’m going to crank out the rest of that story during NaNoWriMo because it’s still in need of nearly 20,000 words and I like watching the bar rise.

I’m going to be working on at least one Aurora Story during the event as well. I do know that I’ll probably be doing more on my Indigo/Bronze/Marigold series that I’ve been kinda plotting on for the last 10 months. I hope to come out of this NaNoWriMo with at least one complete first draft MS, completed plotlines for I+B+M, and possibly even worked out plotline problems in the Aurora Universe. Also during NaNoWriMo, I hope to add a chapter to each of my currently active fanfictions over on AO3, as well as draft a whole separate fanfiction of off the Star Trek Word Crawls that I’m writing.

WEBSITE:

So, in case you are new, I redid my blog’s hosting and the theme. I really like this theme, and I’m actually looking forward to the day when I have pictures to plug in for the slideshow. I’ll be completely revamping my author website sometime in the next couple of months, or at least before my birthday in May, as well.

Am I ever going to have forums? I have no idea anymore. I used to have forums on three different occasions. The first couple, the program locked up and just would not let me back in and I lost a few dozen things I wish I’d had hard copies of. The third time I never actually finished setting them up. Never actually had a reason to finish them.

Okay, that’s enough rambling for now. I’ll see you folks hopefully on Monday!

Writing Prompts, week of October 13th through October 19th

AM Devine

Writing prompts for 10/13 through 10/19
250-500 words. Enjoy! Sadly, lots of free writes this week as my
brain was a bit tapped dry. Also, NaNoWriMo is coming up soon
(as in LESS THAN 15 DAYS once this week ends), so I’ve started
working on what I’ll be doing this year.

 
Sunday: FREE WRITE

Monday: Write a scene with a clausterphobic person in a very
small space.

Tuesday: A promise is made, but is it going to be kept?

Wednesday: FREE WRITE

Thursday: Open with this train of thought: ‘When I opened my
mouth to sing…’

Friday: Write about a hideout, but this hideout doesn’t belong to
lawbreakers.

Saturday: FREE WRITE

Writing Prompts, week of October 6th through October 12th

AM Devine

Hi guys! One of several scheduled posts, that I’m getting into the
queue at this time.

Week of Oct 6th through Oct 12th, prompts. 250-500 words,
unless otherwise noted.

 

Sunday: What is the biggest mistake you’ve made? What about
the smallest?

Monday: Describe your favorite cafe?

Tuesday: Write a scene where someone looses control.

Wednesday: What is your writing weakness? Why do you think it
is?

Thursday: Start a story with the words “In those days…”

Friday: Use to following line of dialouge in a scene: “It was as far
as I could go.” Don’t tell us why. Show us.

Saturday: What is the first summer vacation memory you can
recall from long ago.

Writing Prompts, week of September 29th through October 5th

AM Devine

Of course, I’m behind. That’s why I’m trying to schedule several of these things at once.
Once again, 250-500 words, unless I clearly state otherwise.

 

Sunday: write about how the night won’t save anyone.

Monday: Write about the meeting between two people who were old flames.

Tuesday: write about travel.

Wednesday: Writing from a character’s point of view, write about something they never do. Then, write about something they always do.

Thursday: Have a character take a detour.

Friday: Begin with the following dialouge: “These are three things my father told me:…”

Saturday: FREE WRITE.