Writing Goal for the Day?

[litfan10]

This is it. My writing goal for the day was to find a thread that helped me feel brave enough to post something...anything.

I'm coming out of a wretched time in my life and many days the most basic life activities are a struggle. By the end of the year, though, my goal is to be writing prolifically both erotic and non. I'd love to finish my novel by spring.

Thanks for the bit of encouragement.

Toadlet. Welcome and yes this can be a very therapeutic place. Accomplished your first goal now good luck with the next. Keep up the good work! Make sure when you post a story here that you put a link to it in your signature so we all can enjoy it. Again, best of luck to you and welcome!

 

[litfan10]

Working on this drilling rig includes weekends, I'm sorry to say. No days off until the job ends but after 38 years, I'm used to it, kind of.

Good luck Tx. Very much looking forward to reading the new story.

 

[TxRad]

Good luck Tx. Very much looking forward to reading the new story.

Thanks and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. It has been knocking around in my head for a couple of years in one version or another. I may have to write another as i find I like the characters a lot.

 

[litfan10]

Got thrown off track quite a bit. Hope to finish the new Holly story tonight and get some more down on the Summer Lovin' story.

 

[PennLady]

Welcome Toadlet! Enjoy the positive stuff, and ignore the trolls -- you'll have fun.

Not sure what writing might get done. Hub still needs to work, and likely over the weekend, damn it. That early morning stuff is looking more probable... and necessary.

 

[sr71plt]

I've just about got Dirk Hessian's Blue and Gray (American Civil War, natch--the battle of Port Republic) all wrapped up and ready to go to the publisher. It should launch next weekend. (Be sure and have your wallet out, Lovecraft ).

Got some poems set up today too for the regional mainstream anthology I volume edit. Happily ,today I understood the poems--probably because the theme of a couple of them was criticism of free verse, so they had rhyme and meter.

Clearing the decks to be able to watch the Redskins' preseason game this evening. Sticking close to home, as this is first-year student check-in at the adjacent University and all roads are clogged.

 

[annanova]

Got thrown off track quite a bit. Hope to finish the new Holly story tonight and get some more down on the Summer Lovin' story.

Looking forward to it, Litfan!

Toadlet, you've found a great group of supportive writers. They're all much better than I am. Well, they're all much more disciplined than me, at any rate. They all have lives PLUS they write! Me, I just write.

PL, there's a lot to be said for that early morning quiet time. I cherish my quiet weekend mornings. Unless there's a Formula One race, I'm on my own until... 10am sometimes!

Blue and Gray sounds interesting, sr. I always loved US History. Actually, I love history, so, it's all good.

Why is Sean Penn wearing Robert Smith's wig?

 

[sr71plt]

Blue and Gray sounds interesting, sr. I always loved US History. Actually, I love history, so, it's all good.

Thanks. The core of Blue and Gray is posted to Lit. under the same title--but the GM e-book is a much more voluminous expansion of that story.

Port Republic, Virginia, was the scene of one of the minor battles of the Civil War, where the Union troops unsuccessfully tried to bottle up and capture Stonewall Jackson. It's right at the V where the Broad Run and South rivers come together to form the north fork of the Shenandoah River. The old mill in my story is owned today by a relative of mine--the town has been restored to its Civil War period look.

It's thanks to Lovecraft's attention, by the way, that I dare to discuss the background of one of my stories on the AH. I've given the e-book to my Dirk Hessian pen name, as he's my GM short historicals go-to guy. Dirk also has a book already out on the American Revolution--based on the battle of Saratoga--the nub of which is posted to Lit. as "Colonel's Treasure" (expanded e-book by the same title). In the plans is one on the trudge of the captured German mercenaries to Central Virginia internment right after that battle. The title of that will be Hessian Hills, and it won't ever be posted here to Lit. (I'm reposting fewer and fewer of my new works here.)

If you're into menage, I have a female protagonist-based novel posted to Lit. in chapters (Novels and Novellas category), Wolf Creek, which is loosely based on my own grandmother's story in a sweep of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American history that touches on her connections to Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, J.C. Penny, a Colorado senator/governor or three, Ernest Hemingway, Lillian Hellman, James Michener, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. My grandmother was rather naughty. The expanded e-book version of this is titled Raven's Possession. Other light-brush looks at my grandmother are posted to Lit. as "Grandma's Indian Necklace" and "How to Peel an Apple" (both in the Humor & Satire category)

I dedicate this entire discussion to Lovecraft68

 

[PennLady]

PL, there's a lot to be said for that early morning quiet time. I cherish my quiet weekend mornings. Unless there's a Formula One race, I'm on my own until... 10am sometimes!

Problem with the early mornings, like I said, is the late nights before. But it may be the only way to go...

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

Nevermind.

 

[sr71plt]

Um, yeah. Pretty sure UNC is this weekend and Duke is next, and given the amount of orange paws on cars, I'm guessing Clemson is this weekend, too. Not fun, but better than when UNC plays UVA (or Tech, for that matter) for football. Traffic is terrible on those days.

We don't go to the UVa games anymore. The nearest parking space would be in our driveway.

 

[annanova]

Thanks. The core of Blue and Gray is posted to Lit. under the same title--but the GM e-book is a much more voluminous expansion of that story.

Port Republic, Virginia, was the scene of one of the minor battles of the Civil War, where the Union troops unsuccessfully tried to bottle up and capture Stonewall Jackson. It's right at the V where the Broad Run and South rivers come together to form the north fork of the Shenandoah River. The old mill in my story is owned today by a relative of mine--the town has been restored to its Civil War period look.

It's thanks to Lovecraft's attention, by the way, that I dare to discuss the background of one of my stories on the AH. I've given the e-book to my Dirk Hessian pen name, as he's my GM short historicals go-to guy. Dirk also has a book already out on the American Revolution--based on the battle of Saratoga--the nub of which is posted to Lit. as "Colonel's Treasure" (expanded e-book by the same title). In the plans is one on the trudge of the captured German mercenaries to Central Virginia internment right after that battle. The title of that will be Hessian Hills, and it won't ever be posted here to Lit. (I'm reposting fewer and fewer of my new works here.)

If you're into menage, I have a female protagonist-based novel posted to Lit. in chapters (Novels and Novellas category), Wolf Creek, which is loosely based on my own grandmother's story in a sweep of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American history that touches on her connections to Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, J.C. Penny, a Colorado senator/governor or three, Ernest Hemingway, Lillian Hellman, James Michener, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. My grandmother was rather naughty. The expanded e-book version of this is titled Raven's Possession. Other light-brush looks at my grandmother are posted to Lit. as "Grandma's Indian Necklace" and "How to Peel an Apple" (both in the Humor & Satire category)

I dedicate this entire discussion to Lovecraft68

Okay, I'm checking out your catalog this weekend. Or next week. I'm kinda busy tomorrow.

PL, anytime that I have to myself is good. If I get up early, great; if I can't sleep, whatever. I deal.

 

[ILmonamour]

Um, considering I read 3/4 of a book today, booked god only knows how many flights and hotels to now watching 'The Hour,' writing got absolutely nowhere.

But thankfully tomorrow is a full...free...day where I can completely lose myself with notes, the computer and copious amounts of coffee.

 

[PennLady]

But thankfully tomorrow is a full...free...day where I can completely lose myself with notes, the computer and copious amounts of coffee.

Now, see, bragging like that is just mean. Except for the coffee part -- ick. I don't like coffee.

So I got up kind of early to see if I could write something. Guess I'd better start.

 

[annanova]

So I got up kind of early to see if I could write something. Guess I'd better start.

See? It's easy! Good morning; enjoy the quiet.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

But thankfully tomorrow is a full...free...day where I can completely lose myself with notes, the computer and copious amounts of coffee.

Just popping in to register my jealousy. And to ask if you can feel my glare all the way in Chicago.

 

[PennLady]

See? It's easy! Good morning; enjoy the quiet.

Ha. Fail. Not down 10 mins and the little one wakes up. She did sleep through the night, which is good, but obviously I should have gotten up earlier. Sigh.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I dusted off a tale I wrote about a female tourist caught in the snare of Florida's infamous Convict Labor System circa 1875-1925. The original tale is horrible enough but not the horror I intended nor as horrible as I prefer. Plus I wanted to construct a truly predatory society, to stage the new story.

So I let it simmer, till it decayed to my liking. But today I realize I need to visit an old friend of 40 years ago, LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN by James Agee. Its an account of life among poor sharecroppers during the 1930s. Agee slept in their vermin infested beds, ate their wormy corn meal and possum, and forfeited baths and clean clothes. The idea was to learn the meaning of suffering and living inspite of it.

 

[lovecraft68]

I've just about got Dirk Hessian's Blue and Gray (American Civil War, natch--the battle of Port Republic) all wrapped up and ready to go to the publisher. It should launch next weekend. (Be sure and have your wallet out, Lovecraft ).

Got some poems set up today too for the regional mainstream anthology I volume edit. Happily ,today I understood the poems--probably because the theme of a couple of them was criticism of free verse, so they had rhyme and meter.

Clearing the decks to be able to watch the Redskins' preseason game this evening. Sticking close to home, as this is first-year student check-in at the adjacent University and all roads are clogged.

Why would I buy something when there are so many stories on here I can read for free?

Besides, seeing as we're such good friends I would think you would send me an autographed copy! You can sign Dirk, not your real name.

First week student check in brings back bad flashbacks for me. My foster sister attended B.U. and of course every year ended up in a different "dorm". Many of the dorms at BU are old brownstone type houses and apartment buildings (BU owns half of friggin Boston) and every year I would get stuck moving all her crap in and out of her room and she inevitably ended up on the 3rd to fourth floor. By senior year I was wondering if she did it on purpose.

 

[lovecraft68]

Got stuck working this morning. Three of the 6 drivers that were supposed to show up yesterday couldn't make it. Their dispatcher was begging and pleading to load Saturday morning. The owner won't pay overtime for that, but I have keys and the alarm code and after 10 years free reign so I told them for $400 cash I will load all three this morning. Really only a total of about 2 hours work.

I don't really need the money that much, but come from the school of better to have it and not need it, then need it and not have it.

Course one stooge hasn't shown up yet so here I am posting!

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

I'm not sure what I should work on today. There's a chaptered story I should probably do more on, but I just don't feel it most of the time. Working on another chaptered story while I sill have one going seems like a recipe for disaster. And working on a Halloween story before the summer lovin' contest even starts just seems so... responsible, and I can't have too much of that in my hobby. Maybe inspiration will hit by the time I find a few minutes to write later today.

We're dragging the kidlet to the farmers' market and then out to breakfast before all the college kids get up, a sort of last hurrah before the area is crawling with various shades of blue. And if I'm lucky, I'll be able to watch a bit of the Vuelta coverage when we get back.

Best of luck everyone else, in terms of both time and inspiration.

Except you, IL. I hope your coffee maker breaks and your computer crashes.


(And in case you didn't get it from the emoticons, that's a joke! I don't wish that crap on anyone.)

 

[PennLady]

First week student check in brings back bad flashbacks for me. My foster sister attended B.U. and of course every year ended up in a different "dorm". Many of the dorms at BU are old brownstone type houses and apartment buildings (BU owns half of friggin Boston) and every year I would get stuck moving all her crap in and out of her room and she inevitably ended up on the 3rd to fourth floor. By senior year I was wondering if she did it on purpose.

I lived in dorms while I was in college, and the policy at my school was that women had to live on the 3d/4th floors. I believe it was in part a security measure. So she may not have had any say in it.

The year before I went, a girl was murdered in one of the dorms, and the enabling factor was that people had propped open doors. So even living on upper floors wasn't fail safe.

 

[PennLady]

And as far as writing goes, I have no idea, or real hope, that much will happen today. Hub has to work and so that pretty much shoots down writing time. Sigh.

 

[lovecraft68]

And as far as writing goes, I have no idea, or real hope, that much will happen today. Hub has to work and so that pretty much shoots down writing time. Sigh.

I'm out of here at 11 and the wife is conducting a self esteem work shop that starts at noon, so I will have a few hours when I get home.

Two weeks from now we are going to be teaching a couples work shop. It's actually my concept. It's called "cheating on your spouse with your spouse" and we are going to be teaching and demonstrating the art of role playing.

If it works out well we can do them weekly. Part of the reason I am racing to finish my story is if they work out I'll be losing Saturdays, but the wife is charging $50 a couple and we have 6 lined up for the first week so it could work out well.

Only downside for me is she has me attending Toastmasters (a public speaking club) with her so I don't go "uhhh, ummm, duh," while I'm speaking in front of the "class" should be fun and I can surf lit for endless scenarios if we run out of ideas.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Dear Reader

LOVECRAFTs life is a plot bunny machine.