I’m going on one full week without glasses, the longest I’ve been without them since the third grade. Now that I’m back at work (what the hell for, I don’t know, I can’t see shit), my head has started to hurt from squinting at the computer screen all day. At least over the holiday I could stay offline and just sleep or something. Ugh.
Speaking of the holiday, it’s over ~ I’m back to work, and I don’t just mean the day job, either. I took a little break from writing over Christmas (I finished a short story on the 21st, writing while sick as a dog, so I thought a few days off were in order), but now I’ve started something new. Something, I should add, that wasn’t on my list of stories that need to be written. Of course.
Sunday night I wrote the next scene on my unusual western story, which I’m hoping will stretch itself out to novel length, but at the moment it’s barely 11k. At least I like the direction in which it’s going. I have a feeling this will be another one of those stories not many of my readers like but eh, tough shit. I like it, and I hope it comes out the way I want it to when it’s all said and done.
But another idea was clamoring to be written, so I started a new Vic and Matt story on Monday. This may or may not become book one of a new series; we’ll see. I’ve only just started it, but it’s proving fun to write so far.
Today and tomorrow I’ll work on my January newsletter, which will hopefully be a bit different than my current fare. For one, no more free books to random members of my Yahoo group, because for the past three months, none of the winners claimed their prizes. WTF should I bother emailing them if they don’t bother to write back? Why join a group if you’re not even going to reply when the group owner writes to give you a free book? I don’t get it. So it’s gone.
Also, apparently no one bothers to read my newsletter much, because I’ve had no other questions submitted for the “Have You Read?” section. Or rather, questions I’d like to use. I had one that asked where I got my ideas (which I always think is a cop-out question … I get them from the world around me, where else do you think they come from?) and one that asked if I planned a sequel to Power Play (the answer’s in my FAQ’s).
And that holiday sale I decided to run through CreateSpace? Only one person took advantage of it. One. So I ask myself again, why do I bother? It’s not that I haven’t sold any books … all sales just seem to come from Amazon and not CreateSpace, for whatever reason.
On a happier note, the paperback of The Positions of Love looks like it’s about ready to be released, yay for that. I’m starting to feel the need to redesign my Vic and Matt site, but at the moment without glasses I’m not going to even attempt to try.
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