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nyykiTomorrow is the first of September. Great, now I'll have The Temptations' song, "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" running through my head all night. And I'm not ready to start work on the second romance themed novel. For one thing, this keyboard is harshing my calm, because it's, to be blunt, wimpy. And my finances aren't up to the task of buying a new one, a quality one, right now. If I could talk my old one into not being dead that'd help -- you know, you use a keyboard for twenty-three years, you start to get used to it, and you get some attachment to it. I'm making annoying typos all over the place, and it's simple dumb stuff, not anything like bad habits or fat fingering things. I'm losing my reference points, and it feels odd.
This means if I'm going to do the write a book in a month thing again it'll be November; wow, that *is so* predictable, isn't it? But there's a confounding issue there -- Gail Gibson is going to do a lecture about the Middle Kingdom, so that's one night a week for however many weeks she schedules her four lectures in that'll be time not writing.
I'm thinking about where I want this journal to go. I may read back to see what I did after I moved from the journal site of hate and oppression, so I can reconnect there.
This means if I'm going to do the write a book in a month thing again it'll be November; wow, that *is so* predictable, isn't it? But there's a confounding issue there -- Gail Gibson is going to do a lecture about the Middle Kingdom, so that's one night a week for however many weeks she schedules her four lectures in that'll be time not writing.
I'm thinking about where I want this journal to go. I may read back to see what I did after I moved from the journal site of hate and oppression, so I can reconnect there.
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Date: 2024-09-01 03:38 pm (UTC)What kind of keyboard was the one that's dying? We may have one or know where we can get one. There's also eBay for getting older tech on the cheap, if you want the same kind of keyboard.
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Date: 2024-09-01 03:58 pm (UTC)I was considering commenting along the same lines as you just did. Is there any points for being No. 2? Doesn't matter b/c it's not important to me.
That said, what i do want to know is what books NYYKI has written since i'm a very active reader and looking for new quality stuff. Lately i've been 'finding' poorly written stories for very young readers. My first ever library book i checked out was SF and it's still my first love.
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Date: 2024-09-01 04:59 pm (UTC)Almost all of my short stuff is in past issues of Magnets and Ladders (www.magnetsandladders.org), with two, "Data Overflow" and "Broken Ring" up in the current issue. I tend to keep to mainstream fiction there, though a bit of genre fiction has gone there. I'm blocked from getting novels out, because I haven't been able to get covers for them made. Some are simple Photoshop things, while others involve more artistic skill.
All that said, I've got edited stuff available for beta reading. Thinking about it, I've got more fantasy ready right now than other genres, though it's not a preferred genre. Déjà vu is very much hard science fiction, though the science isn't up front and center in it -- its sequel, Déjà vu 2: Jamais Vu, is filled with more of it. Word of warning -- Déjà vu is sort of a long book, but still under 600 pages. Déjà vu 2 is over a thousand pages, and it's not edited yet. Some of my stuff is novella length, and I can turn out much shorter stuff, 1000 words or less -- I've got some 100's in my finished work.
To put some of this in perspective, in June of 2022 I wrote almost all of a romantic novel (it's not "Romance", because I didn't follow the formula at all), Love Meme. I had some to begin with, as I worked out the basic situation, and the last major scene (the one with recreational friction) and the epilogue I wrote on July 2. The novel is 122,000 words, give or take a bit. I write kind of fast, and part of that is because of the keyboard I was so familiar with.
You said you tended to read science fiction -- what sub-genre do you prefer? There's a vast difference between Isaac Asimov, Eric Frank Russell, E. E. "Doc" Smith, and David Weber (I've got three of Weber's books on my talking book player right now). At the current time, I'm reading everything Cristine Kathrine Rusch writes, I seek out writing by Adam Troy Castro, I get elated every single time I run into something by Daryl Gregory, and Peter Clines intrigues me. I'm lamenting that the next two books in Suzanne Palmer's Finder series aren't available through my talking book sources yet.
Also, I don't play well within genre boundaries -- my editor says that I can't be classified in any specific genre, because I blow through them with abandon. She also calls my stuff complex, and she's satisfied with the endings, because I'm a strong proponent of the "Chekhov's Gun" philosophy in writing -- "If the author puts a gun on the mantlepiece in the first act, it must be fired before the end of the third."
Let me know if you're interested in beta reading some of this, and what other genres you're interested in. And if you know someone who can do cover art, please put me in contact with them.
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Date: 2024-09-01 04:37 pm (UTC)I've still got passwords, but I wrote a lot, so nuking everything will take forever. I'd rather be able to nuke it all from orbit, because that's the only way to be sure.
It's an old Microsoft Internet keyboard. It's got a model number on the underside, but I don't know any good way to get the info off it... wait, I might be able to scan it. It'd be far easier to get someone to read it off the unit, but Dixie isn't good with numbers. I almost never use the internet buttons, but I like the three programmable buttons that let me pull up applications or programs.