InsaneJournal

Current mood:

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How the hell can I possibly be feeling good and bad at the same time? >.
This sums up my feelings perfectly right now, but then I know why it is. I finished writing a story, and I'm cranky because I have nothing in me right now. Since there is no one source for this frustration, the emotion wanders, trying to look for targets. Most often, I won't let it settle on anything, so I spend most of the day making pathetic little sighs of discontentment.

However, I'm not really unhappy. I've been told the business tax forms were mailed off to finish registering the publishing label with Lightning Source on Monday, so I'm expecting word back soon with the confirmation of the account.

I've got "Redemption Lost" back from my editor, and last night I paid her and asked her to provide a basic critique. And yeah, there are some problems. I'm just not sure how to fix them yet. My editor and I came to terms over the term magi, and so that will end up staying, even if it is technically wrong. *shrug* I just think magi sounds nicer than mages. According to the Firefox dictionary, neither are words. ^_^

I guess this funk isn't so bad though. The day before yesterday, the cat ruined one of my USB keys by chewing the connection. This key was the secondary backup of all my work files. Instead of shouting at the cat, I was checking his teeth to see if he was having plaque problems on his back teeth. Then I went to the store the next day to pick up another key. Meh, I still had another backup, and now I have two again. So, no harm done. I wouldn't be quite so proud of myself over this, but I'm in a pissy mood, and I didn't shout at the cat. That's a new level of calm for me. ^_^

So, moving to writing news again, obviously this next few weeks will be dedicated to going over my editor's recommendations and merging her changes into the final draft. I think this will end up being my main project for the next few weeks, though I plan on getting back to recording podcasts too, and I'm going to start live readings of "Trail of Madness" in SL.

Finally, in non writing news. I'm going to start editing the photos from the Amsterdam trip. It's just that there's 2700 pictures, and out of those, I'll only select 100 or so for the tour. And once I've selected them, I'll take them into Photoshop to clean them up. THEN I can upload them to Photobucket and torture people with my boring vacation pictures. ^_^

And that's the news for now. I'll get to work on those piccies now.

Later...