When 4 out of 5 people say your wording sucks, you had best believe them.

When 1 out of 5 people say “swap this word for that”. Ya, you know what? No thanks.

My son is jumping around in a Wacky Tacky birthday party and I’m typing away on my little Bingbook doing my best to edit my submission for a writing contest. I am going through the comments left by five individuals and you know what? some poeple notice things others brush right over. It’s kind of funny. Still when most of them point something out you better believe there is something wrong with it. When one points out something I try and weigh the comment as suggestive rather than absolute. You know, preferential.

Overall, except for my editing today, it’s been a very non-writerly productive day.

Yesterday I went to my longest running writers group and had some fun talking with the lot of them. Our conversations ranged from movies to politics and then to other random topics. Of course, alien abductions were also brought up at some point. This gave me a moment to explain the plots to two of my stories I was working on. One, being 2nd draft finished “Doug” (link here) and the other my synopsys of my Libertarian Wank Fiction story. This one is still in its extended outline stages and partially still being worked out in the back of my mind. They gave me long stares of “WTF” for the LWF one. They had no idea the philosophy behind it.

Back to the here and now… they are doing the birthday song and cake part so I have to put an end to this diatribe.

-Cake-elles all…

So I had planned on getting some stuff done around the house and doing some other odds and ends such as clearing something up with my domain hosting service.

My son decided to be sick again today.

I got bupkiss bumkiss (I like the sound of this one better, sarcastic humor) done.

Oh well.

I did manage to dig up an old netbook I had in the garage. I’m thinking about yanking out its old SATA(?) drive and plugging in a SSD. I might have my terminology a bit mixed up but sine having kids I haven’t had the geek time to stay on top of these kind of things.

-Fundles for now

Talk about a pain in the keister.

I’ve had trouble with rewrites of chapters before but this one just felt like a lump in my ass. Glad it’s almost done.

All I know is that my book is fragmenting up into smaller scenes as more characters are starting to join the still unfolding story. I need to post my excel sheet online which shows how this is starting to happen. I’ve also decided that my understanding of the use of chapters is now kind of irrelevant. My scenes are what is driving this thing, and as long as I balance out the characters appearances along with timing them right, this is how I need to put it together.

I’ve also joined 3 or 4 new Facebook groups in hopes of finding some critique partners. I’m waiting to see if any of them pan out.

I think that is it for now.

Oh… I did see the new Dr. Strange trailer. All I’m going to say is ‘hhmmm’. I can’t decide if I like it or not.

Time will tell.

Still working on cleaning up the prior fumble rewrite.

It’s my Friday at work.

I feel like doing pizza buffet today. I think I’m going to hit up the round table pizza in old Sacramento and do just that.

I got nothing else to say right now.

-Ba Humbuggles

Okay, so I’ve gotten about 1,500 words deep into my rewrite of my second draft of day 06 of Sup-Her. If any of the preceding makes sense then you have my condolences cause I’m not even sure what I said.

SQUIRREL!

Time to go get the kids.

So yesterday I got roughly 1100 words further into day06. The problem was it wasn’t sitting right in my gut. It wasn’t until this morning, getting on the train and opening my laptop again, that I realized it.  So I’m doing it over one more time. I feels better so far… (600 words in)…

I’m feeling kinda tired right now. My mental RAM is starting to run low. Last thing I want to do is write when I don’t have the focus.

So on Saturday I participated in a new writting group, one that is more of a review group. It was the first initial meeting and so things were naturally not running as smoothly as one would hope. I got four people to review my “Journey Into…” story, which is a good thing. I have yet to read through their remarks but with it having been the weekend I can’t ever get dookie done around the house thanks to the kids.

I brought them with me to work today and am going to go through them and see what each of them thinks. I also had my wife review the piece and am going to see how their thoughts match up against hers. Call it a litmus test if you will.

…

Okay i guess it’s time to start prentending I work around here.

-Fooldools 😛

So I started working on day 06 on Saturday but felt it was going tangent on me and so stopped. Today I rewrote over it again and now it’s feeling much better. 🙂

Biggest word count ever for a single day. It’s also the end of Day 05. I still need to run a spell checker over it but otherwise, it’s done.