Thedits Thursday

Today, I only wrote a little. I am editing the first (pre) round of edits. A wonderful tool had been sent to me from my Samhain editor which tells me to ditch some of my commonly used words. HOOBOY! I found out I am an over user. Sheesh. Being a good girl, I'm working hard to take out as many of the no-no list as possible. Still have lots to do, and no, edits haven't formally started yet so... Well, it might be a while.

Also, I got HITM (The werewolf) back today to do "Just a few more things before line edits." So, I will do that too.

I'm sure I will have plenty of time. My youngest is getting her eye surgery in the morning, and she plans on spending a lot of time in my waterbed with me, moaning and groaning. I don't blame her, nor will I, but it makes for tough writing. Good thing I have edits to while away my time.

Updates following the surgery will come after I get home. Night all.

Getting close

Getting close!

I figure, if the story will be about 68 thousand words or so, and I have 54.4 thousand words, that means I have only a few chapters left. Enforcing Justice is getting closer and closer to The End.

I’m excited, are You?

Update on writing

I have been writing. Luckily. Even with my hectic schedule for this week, I am managing to get some wordage. Alexi's book is at 53k, just finished a sex scene, and if you check my craft blog you can see the items I have made.

My schedule this week, as I said, is hectic. Yesterday, Monday, I took my youngest to the opthemologist to get a final checkup. Today, Tuesday, through Thursday, the teens get out at noon due to district testing. And Friday is eye surgery day for my youngest. She is having her eyes straightened. Born with crossed eyes, she had an operation at nine months. It didn't fully correct it, and now she is ready to complete the process. It isn't a palatable process so I won't go into it as I just drank a huge glass of fat free milk. LOL.

I've been searching the online Thesaurus's (or however you pluralize it) for new descriptive words. I get sick of saying the same thing over and over. I found some good ones. BUT!!!, well, for the naughty bits, it's a bit harder to come by euphemisms that aren't so freaking flowery or outdated, that I cringe to read them. OH! and get this... I found out that when you say, "I'm supposed to believe that? My Aunt Mary!" you are referring to your vagina. LOL, Aunt Mary was a euphemism for vagina. I didn't know that, but say it all the time. Man, do I have a potty mouth. Just thought I would pass on that tidbit of research. But I don't think I shall ever write most of the things I found on two sites. Sure, there were tons of entries, but grief! Anyway, I'm still looking. If you have more than:

Cock
Penis
shaft
vagina
cunt
clitoris
cave
manroot
labia

and I'm sure I'm forgetting some, Let me know. I am not looking for "flaming balogna of luv" but things that won't make me cringe to write. LOL

And on that note...

I'm off to bed now, tired, and thank you all for joining me.

I'm back from the Grand Canyon and I have to say, WOW! This is just ONE of the fabulous sights I saw. My camera took some pretty good pictures, I think. I have more to post, but I think I'll do it a little at a time. We had a great time, and I'm ready to get Enforcing Justice (Alexi's story) done. So, back to work for me.

Vacation!!!

Vacation!!!

The family and I are going on a short vacation. We won’t be back till Friday or Saturday. Everyone have fun while I’m internet-less.

Brenda

Good news Saturday

*Happy dancing*

Got my contracts for Tree Sprite in the mail today. Yeehaw!

Now I can update my webpage. I will have to make two pages. I don't mind. *snort, as if*.

I guess the hard work will start soon.

Looking forward to it, actually.

Anyway, give me till tomorrow night to update the webpage.

Brenda

Wow! Friday

I’m alive

Honest. I am.

I’ve been filling out paperwork and writing on Enforcing Justice and started writing Auras. Not very far into Auras, just chapter 2, but Enforcing Justice is cooking along. I have over 48k.

Other than laundry, which had fallen behind due to the rain, I spend my days writing. Work, work, work.

Ok, so I did complete my son’s afghan, and started one for my daughter (which won’t be as mish mash). You can see my son’s afghan (if you are brave enough) at my Yarn Blog.

Sad to say, that’s it. Well, except for the stresses of trying to get a senior in high school graduated, and signed up for College, and planning a short family vacation to the Grand Canyon (which I hope it warms up and stops raining by then).

I guess I will let you get back to your regularly scheduled day.

Brenda

Have I mentioned?

Oh my goodness.

This has been some week.

First business. I had to go into my webpage and update the links to my books. Loose Id has made some changes, and I entered the new urls.

Second. School play. Tonight is the last night for the play WOOOHOOO. It's really good, the kids are doing great. The Little Shop of Horror and I put an ad in the program.

Oh, I kept it clean.

But the running around has been driving me nuts. My schedule is off, and that's just sleeping. sigh.

Writing... I have been, but not as much as I would like to have done. sigh. Maybe next week, I can try to knock some bigger numbers out. Enforcing Justice is going well, I am confident it isn't a sucky story, and I did have a 3500 word sex scene. LOL.

I think after I write Auras and Enforcing Justice, I might have a contest. Sort of a give me some words, and I will write a story.

One word who (male and female first names,would be two different choices)
One word where (small town, big city, dungeon)
One word what (Something specific that needs to be done)
One word When (time frame)

I can supply the why and how. I think I can do this, if I take one word from a handful of entries. It would be a blind choice. I won't read them through first.

Anyway, I thought this might be a good idea. But not until I finish the books I am working on.

Whaddya think?

Brenda