NaNoWriMo

I know it is a little early to be mentioning this but I already got an
email reminding me (and asking for donations of course). And I am
thinking seriously about it this year. I gave it a try last year
expecting to fail. Glad I didn't disappoint myself.

I want to do it this year. I want to succeed. I need to really learn
to push myself to keep writing even if I think what I have written is
crap. I can fix it later, and I usually do if I let it sit long
enough. But getting it out and not letting myself get stuck... That is
what is important.

Also maybe I should stop trying to work on 3-4 different things at a
time. But sometimes I can't help it. The writing comes to me and if I
don't write it down it might get lost.

Sorry, back to the point I am trying to get to. What should I write?
The story I tried last year I plan to change it back to a short story,
and back to the fan fic I originally planned it as. I could get
started on the novel I want to write but I feel like I am not ready.
Which is why I planned a short fic in that fantasy world to help get
more comfortable with it. I wonder if I will ever be ready.

But maybe my place was never to be a fantasy writer, maybe I am
supposed to write contemporary lesbian romance fiction. Which brings
me to my other option, expanding the blog into a third person novel.
Which I could potentially publish on my own and sell to my huge
fanbase who follow it (I wish I wasn't being sarcastic) and will
already know the end of the story. But it could work. The last option
is to try something new.

Maybe I will discover that I am also meant to be a short story writer...

So any suggestions? I will gladly hear them.

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Sent from my mobile device

Test post

Just attempting my email posting optioms since my text one didn't go
over very well. Which means I might have to draw this out to get a
post significant enough, as my test text post went over well due to
its shortness. Of course typing on my tiny screen with occasional lag
may result in a severe amount of grammatical and spelling errors that
slip through my keen editing skills. That may or may not be a joke.
But if I can post more that would make me happy.

I posted something!

Sorry but not on Lez Country.

Check me out over at The Kitten Board: Believe in Fairies

That is all for now folks. Once I get these five year lost things closer to done I will probably start finishing this. Hopefully it won't take another five years.

Work has been long and gruelling. But I am enjoying the physicalness of it and it gives me my 'alone' time to write. I should be making progress at actually updating both blogs, my plan is every other Wednesday, approximately, when my beloved is in class and I can spend some quality one-on-one time with a fast computer and fast internet. I've been reading more which always inspires me to write more. A good portiom of it has been erotica as I am away from my girl for extended periods.

But that is a different subject, and while I don't mind some smut for smuts sake, I don't think it will ever be anything I will ever strictly write. Again getting off the subject.

So you few fans who are still following this oft neglected blog, I adore you, I really do. But it is time for me to get more followers and I will need to be actively outreaching. But that means everyone, new and faithful followers, will be hearing from me more. I am sure we can all agree that is a good thing.

The first task I have in mind is to only start posting stuff I have finished. I hope to do a few more shorts as well. And I am coming out. I am a fanfic addict. My name is WiccanBotanist. I escaped the thrall of the kittenboard when I started taking anti-depressants and got into a relationship. Plus I hated how much of a "Jenny Schecter" I was starting to pull on some of my fics. I had to take a break. But they are my people, they are my inspiration, they are my audience. I need them and I miss them.

So that is my coming out and this Wednesday I should be putting up a few posts. Love you all, can't wait to get to work. -DTB

Let me introduce myself... Again

Hello. Long time no see. I have been writing again. I have been reading again. Life is wonderful and good and I am back on top of the world. Never mind that when I first started this project, ie Lez Country, it was mostly escapism from the Hell I was in. Sometimes when you are down long enough that you even give up on escaping. Actually I focused my attention elsewhere, like applying for every single job out there. I had an interview for Portland, I hope I get it. But in the meantime I found something temporary to get me out. And since I've been enjoying myself it was time to start again.

And it flowed. Just like it did before. After I made the appropriate arrangements that got me stuck, it just came to me and on to the paper. I've been writing and writing and writing. Oh how I've missed you.

My web presence probably won't jump up too much though as I have limited access. I do have my mobile set up. And once I get going on more posts (remember they are back dated) and get close to the end I will think about first changing the name, and second getting a proper web page to post the blog and have it ready for when I expand the story into 3rd person.

So that is my update for now. Readers come back!

I am testing my mobile text message upload. I have been writing more Sally today. Finally got unstuck by re-working a new character who was taking up way too much space. Much more simplified now. Should be posting those when I get done with my work trip. Thank you to those who have been waiting patiently.

Start of a New Year?

A New Good Year.

So quick update I guess.

* Yes I have written the prompt up, but because of my NaNoWriMo experience, I wrote a draft and it needs some work. I think you'll be surprised in the direction I've taken it.

* My girlfriend filled out her FAFSA and has been accepted into the program she wants. Seeing how she didn't have a job last year, her expected contribution is $0 and she'll get good pell grants.

* And last but not least, her unemployment finally went through. She'll have some weekly money to help with the bills and can pay off her vehicle.

So all in all, especially for my girlfriend, this year is her year I think. Which would make my year. So now I'm off to apply for a summer job that will get me in the area we want to settle and if I am correct will lead/turn into a permanent, even if only seasonal, kind of job. And I'm okay with the seasonal because that gives me a few months to work on writing...