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Well, how do you like that?

{ September 9, 2008 @ 2:53 pm } · { Life Updates, The Netbook, Writing In General }
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I finally made myself sit down and work on SaSu, cleaning up the few kinks I saw, and ended up not really changing much at all. A few errors I missed the first time, but nothing major. Also, I regained my sense of direction with that little guy.

For a while, I thought I had completely lost sight of the original purpose of Sapphire Sunlight. That was exactly what I thought my problem was three days ago, but when I opened it and was ready to fix, tweak, and totally erase some of it, I found that I was quite pleased with it thus far, and that the only thing I was guilty of was forgetting my direction. After reading the whole thing from page one to thirty-eight, I think it’s safe to say I’m back on track. Now, if only I can find the little black book I was using to outline everything in. I have no idea where it went to! I know I saw it recently, but it’s not where it should be. Fun.

My main mss. was giving me a headache yesterday, but as usual, after I spent a few hours away from it, I found a way to get around my problem. Things are otherwise going smoothly, and I’m finally getting into the chapters that need less and less reworking done to them. Thank god. Other than the last change, I shouldn’t have much more left to seriously fix. Of course, I could have just jinxed myself with that…

Progress

{ August 5, 2008 @ 11:56 am } · { Edits, Life Updates, Netbook Progress }
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Now that you’re older and wiser for it, how often have you thought back, really thought back, to the very first thing you really wanted to be when you grew up, and wish, now, that you had managed to do it?

As the job hunt continues–fruitless though it may be–I can at least be thankful that, while I am unemployed, I can get at least through the revisions of my fantasy book without the hassle of life on top of that.
Whether I’ll make my personal deadline before I find a job is a very certain uncertainty, but I will happily take whatever progress I can grasp at.

Thus far, the prologue has had a very long face-life. I mean it–the prologue is longer than my first chapter! In ms. format, the prologue is nine pages long, while the first chapter is only six. I was originally working to shorten the prologue, as I–and many others are guilty of this, I’m sure–usually skip it if it’s more than a paragraph when I’m reading. Shameful, but true! The information in mine is…well, it isn’t critical to the plot at all. I use the prologue as a place to insert back-story and information that you don’t really need to know, but would help you get a sense of what the overall story would be about. I made it so that if you did skip it like I would, the first chapter would still catch your eye, and with any luck, reel you in just the same.

Chapter one had the next largest amount of re-working that got done. I hacked it down by three pages and replaced them with one and a half fresh ones, which was a very good move. The hook has a lot more bite to it now, and that is very pleasing. Chapters two through four we adjusted accordingly, but nothing overly impressive had to be changed. I cut down the end of chapter four by three pages as well, and only replaced it with a paragraph.
The first twenty or so chapters of the fantasy book are probably going to eat me alive with minor errors, but I’m hoping it won’t take too much time away from being able to continue work on SaSu. It’s only a side job, and obviously takes a backseat where my novel is concerned, but I’m working on a schedule right now to get that done at the same time. Only time will tell if it works out.

In retrospect

{ July 22, 2008 @ 11:17 am } · { Life Updates, Netbook Progress }
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Looking back at the last three chapters, I noticed something. I….really am not happy with them. That’s why I haven’t been updating the chapters lately. It’ll probably be another week before something new is posted, but until then, I’m going to work on sprucing up chapters seven through nine until they make me happy. Only then will I be able to move on to chapter ten.

Sapphire Sunlight, Ch. 8 & 9

{ June 29, 2008 @ 12:58 pm } · { Hobbies, Life Updates, Supernatural Books, The Netbook }
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Well, last week was most certainly not one of my favorites. Having to ride the bus isn’t something I’m allergic to, but walking up there and then getting off to walk all the way up to the park-&-ride? Blah. The only good thing is that I’ll loose some of that excess weight that has been bothering me. The downside is that, well, I don’t have a car. I called the police station about that on Thursday just to see if they found it and never bothered calling me, but just as I’d thought, it was still MIA. This is why I am a realist.

SaSu has been going well in my opinion, but I once again find myself wondering about other places to find a larger audience. The pageviews here just aren’t that great. I’ll probably end up mirroring this site at LiveJournal or BlogThings. I’m not too crazy about the last, but it isthe most popular blogsite online.

Anyway, on the topic of SaSu, I haven’t had a chance to go through and edit chapter seven yet, so if there are some small errors, they’ll most likely still be there until around Wednesday or so. Other than that, here are chapters eight and nine.♥ Thanx for waiting, and enjoy!

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The story of the dissapearing car

{ June 22, 2008 @ 8:52 pm } · { Life Updates, Netbook Progress }
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Ah, the best laid plans of mice and men…

Apologies for not having been here in such a while. Work has kept me on my toes, and I had meant to leave a message saying I wouldn’t be back until this week with chapter eight. Sadly, I must apologize again for what will become of this week as well. You see, my car was stolen just this past Friday morning; right out of my parking spot before I awoke to go to work. I now have no mode of transportation of my own that will get me there, and will have to rely on others–which includes the use of public transport–to get me there in one piece.

Why did they take my car? I haven’t a clue. It wasn’t a good vehicle. It ran horribly, bucked worse than a bronco on speed, and ate gas like there was no tomorrow. The other cars parked around me would have been better targets, but I guess mine was the easiest? In retrospect, I have reason to believe that whoever stole it was watching me. Why? Because there wasn’t even the smallest shard of glass on the ground. Now, unless they brought a broom to sweep away the evidence, I would read that as meaning they have been waiting for a good time to steal it, and came quite prepared to do so.

Because of all this, my weekend was spent silently sulking as I looked for gifts for my father’s upcoming birthday with a false smile and cheer so I wouldn’t depress or annoy anyone else. I haven’t been able to focus on much since Friday, so the edits for chapter seven were never done, and thus, chapter eight was never written. However, I should be able to get back on that this week with an update on Sunday, so don’t forget to tune in.

As for my car…I have no hope of seeing my little KIA again, so I’m not going to hold my breath. I also have no hope of affording another car for at least four months. The only person I know with money has been dead since he got married, so he didn’t even bother to try and help by lending one of his three cars to me for the next few months. Yet…yet he will always help his wife’s good-for-nothing brother that is constantly leeching money from them? Hmm…

With that in mind, I will forever remember that he truly means very little to me now, and that he, too, has become good for nothing. I will just have to hope that my schooling in this current position will result in a well enough paying job that I can get back on both my feet, and help my parents along the way.

 

Here’s to seeing you next Sunday with a bit of entertainment from the pages of Sairyn’s life.

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