Monday, 23 March 2009

Ugh

I've noticed I start off a lot of posts with 'ugh'. It very much describes my feelings today. Why is it that when you have a busy day, THAT's the night you lie there in bed with your eyes shut kidding yourself you're asleep? My mind was racing like mad so I eventually gave up at half five and got up (which is my usual writing time) and buggared if I could keep my damn eyes open then!! Com'on life, that's just so not fair!!

LOL. So I've spent today pootling and writing something for a game with a friend. As I've said before I love writing with people and this friend is a favourite to write with. One day I swear he's going to get sick of me but, until that happens, I'm just gonna bug him to write with me.

So, brat is finally potty trained I think. It's been a fairly easy ride I think, especially when compared to some horror stories I hear. But I made the decision to wait until she was ready, arguing with various relatives with the 'soandso was potty trained by six months' (gotta love your families well meaning attempts to undermine you haven't you?) and it seems to have paid off. Brat does things when she's ready, not before, and any attempt to push her usually results in frustration and much pulling out of hair (mine).

So mainly waffle and some boring paperwork today. I'm playing around with the next scene in my epic rewrite of EarthWarden (epic only for my procrasination) and I found a new cartoon to read!! You gotta read the adventures of Ebenezer and Snooch, it's hilarious!!

http://www.twolumps.net/
Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Sunlight & Slavery

I finally finished Sunlight & Slavery. Which I'm really pleased about. Like most stories I had a little bit of a block in the middle and I always hate a story when I've just finished writing it. But looking back when editing it I'm rather pleased with the story overall.

I was mooching around on the stock sites looking for a possible cover image. It's only just been submitted but, hey, a girl can think ahead can't she? ... and I found this one...


clipped from stockxpert.com


strong man hold delicate girl on black background










blog it



I kinda like this one. It's nothing like the initial image I had when writing the story which was this...

knucklesandneri

But obviously I can't use this one so the search was on for a different one. And it's giving me the right 'feel' to match the story although I'm not overly sure about the pink. I'm not a pink person, although Brat has decided without any prompting that pink is of course mummy's favourite colour because she's a girl. (It's not, it's purple but you try and explain that to a three year old!!)
Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Ugh...

I’m trying to make more of an effort to blog. Since I tend to go through spates of it where I blog everyday (sometimes more than once a day) and then spates where I don’t blog much at all. Actually it usually happens when I’m in the middle to the end of writing a story, once I get past a certain point I seem to loose track of everything else and I’m ‘must get words on page, must get this scene finished’ etc.

Not so good when brat wanders up and goes ‘Mummy no work anymore’ :S and I realise that, although I’m around, she’s pretty much been left to her own devices. Which is when I start getting up at stupid oclock and writing so I spend time with her in the day. Which leads to a lack of sleep as I don’t go to bed earlier and… yeah, if anyone noticed the ends of my books are a little… odd? That’s why.

So, we haz the sick at the moment. Mr C has been laid low with a sinus and chest infection and I’m pretty sure I have one two. My lungs feel like they did the other month when I had a bad infection. It was one of those ones where everyone had it and the doc’s were saying fluid and rest, it’ll go away. Guess what? It didn’t. Then I got a bollocking from my doctor because I was a day or two off hospital with it. So… tell us it’ll go away and to get on with things and it doesn’t? Go figure. I couldn’t work it out either.

Which means I have to get brat up early and get her ready (NOT fun if she’s not ready to go out) then go hurry up and wait in the doc’s reception. Which should be fun, Brat’s potty training atm so every couple of minutes we have to go sit her on the toilet (not to wee, she’s just fascinated with the whole flushing the loo and washing her hands bit but… you know… you gotta go do it in case she DOES need to go).

Ugh, should shower now. See you later with more tales from the seriously sleep deprived side.

Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Busy Bee!

So, after much swearing and threats of dire retribution I’ve beaten publisher into submission and created this month’s newsletter!! *looks at it and shakes head* I hate publisher.

Enjoy! http://mina-carter.com/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=17
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