State of affairs
Offbeat Bride the book
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on May 18, 2006
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I've been up at 5am every day this week to get in hours of revisions before going to work. Tomorrow I hand my first draft complete to my editor, lit agent, and adored Patrick, who's on friend/editor patrol to personally ensure I don't look like a dumb-ass (or at least any more than I usually do). Squeal! It's really hard, as a blogger, to hand off writing. What, you mean I can't revise and republish over and over again? I'm so spoiled by push-button publishing.
Best summed up in two words: total disaster.
Moral of the story? While I'm doing ok as a writer, I ain't no housekeeper.
About Ariel Meadow Stallings
Author of Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides, Ariel acts as the publisher of all the Offbeat Empire websites. She lives, loves, and dorks out hard in Seattle, WA.
00945399 said
100.73% whassat?
What's that software called you're using to measure your progress? I'm writing and it looks interesting.
Also, your website doesn't display itself properly with the OPERA browser – just in case you didn't know.
Nice clean looking site though – like it
pip pip
Matt said
Writing rocks. The best thing about it is that when you've finished writing one book, you can write another one!Mine went down so well that that is exactly what I'm doing. Same again this time next year! And hopefully, another and another…
Ariel said
00945399, that's just an excel spreadsheet set up to help me track my goal wordcount and current written wordcount. Nothin' fancy.
As for Opera: Yeah, I know. This site isn't designed for the .08% of my visitors who use it.
yelahneb said
does anyone here still keep a written journal? i kept one off and on for most of my life, but the practice faded as i started blogging before stopping completely around 2003.
Ariel said
Ben, I still keep a journal! Certainly it doesn't get updated as often as it did pre-blog, but god knows I can't write about all the good stuff online … my journal is filled with smut, work, inebriated moments, private insecurities, health issues, relationship musings, and other things that would get me in big, big trouble to put under the all-seeing eye of Google.
Kai said
I still keep a written journal too. It prevents me from posting the mundane details of my daily life on my weblog (ie: "Today, I ate a peanut butter sandwhich") and it gives me a outlet for my occasional rants.