On the Techy Side

I never thought finding a web host site would be so difficult. Not that I know what to look for or anything. They all look the same to me.

It's coming down to price. A friend of mine used one host but they have this nice little profane/profanity clause and well....considering my graphic is two naked people this could be an issue.

So...I dunno.

All I know is that I want to get the new site up and running (provided I can figure out what the heck I'm doing in either iWeb or GoLive since those are the two programs I have).

Oh to have a techy guy who could do this for me. Alas...it's just me. Back to the battle I go!

Finding the Words

I'm at a crossroads with my writing. The latest submission was (sadly) rejected but with changes made I can resubmit it. I'm not entirely sure how to fix the problems with it so I'm letting it stew. This has, however, led me to a place where I'm currently doubting ALL the finished manuscripts sitting on my hard drive. This is where I miss the writing bud a lot because she could always spot where my weaknesses lay and me with her.

Because I'm procrastinating with the finished manuscripts and thinking over the other one, I'm distracting myself with my dagger boys. It surprised me when that was the one which slipped forward first, sliding out of the past.

The heroine changed from the Miss Sunshine of years ago. Now she's dark and damaged and I'm a little shocked at what's emerged from her with a name change. It's been awhile since I wrote this dark. I'm out of practice.

I don't think I'll forget for long though. It's just a feeling.

Unused Unneeded Unwritten

As I was leaving work today, bundling up in my parka and toque, a realization came to me on a story I've been stuck on for way too long.

I think I stood there for five minutes and went "Can I do that? Why yes...yes I can!" Nothing drastic needs to be removed just deleting a character who has few scenes but has left me scratching my head wondering what the heck I'm going to do with her and the third brother.

Answer. Nothing.

Not a blessed thing. She doesn't move the story forward. She doesn't move my characters forward ergo she's superfluous. There's nothing worse than a superfluous character. Worse, she was making my other brother superfluous but now with her gone...I'm feeling good. I may get this story finished yet! Oooooh. Ahhhh.

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

You'd think finding a new graphic would be easy.

It's not.

It's all kinds of crazy combination in the search engines of stock photo sites. It's studying pictures and wondering "Is it too fake? Is that too sweet? Do I want colour or black and white? Are they over 18? What is up with that woman's manicure!"

I've got it into my mind to use a new image. It's proving to be...frustrating. All because I had the idea of "Do I want a new graphic?"

Sigh sigh sigh. Yes, I could be writing...but I'm not.

Happy New Year!

So this is 2009. Cool.

There's only one resolution in this little mind of mine and that's to submit my manuscripts. I'm not sure why I'm nervous. I mean, I have submitted before. Granted it was three years ago.

Submit though. That's all I gotta do.

Should be easy, eh what?