The Hunter's Journal

Title: Odds Are…
Fandom or Original Universe: Original
Rating: PG
Word Count: 925
Brief Summary: The Cats are not acceptable and have bounties on them. They don’t like that…
Brief Warnings: None
Writing Prompt: Evening the odds
Beta: None
Notes: From a bigger universe about Myra and Hyst
( Odds are... )

So, I put up a schedule at the beginning of the month.

Tomorrow, the first begins a new month of writing. After the first of month running around, I'll be retreating to my room to do some writing. School ends on Friday, but I'm prepared for that. Kids know about The Writing Time.

I'm going to be spending tonight reading things so I can see where I want to go with each of the two that I might be working on. Both are in rewrites, but I'm actually going to go back and finish the original versions.

Or at least in theory I am. Maybe I'll work on both rewrite and original. Just to see what shakes loose.

For now, I'm going to go open Mira and Ari and see what happens. Maybe something spectacular will shake loose.

I've been very, very lapse about updating here, and can only offer excuses:

- Firstly, I moved across the state, with two kids and only my car. It was a long, hot trip and involved a lot of paperwork at this end, so that took a long time.

- Secondly, I've been job-hunting like mad. I found one, and then it left again. Now, I'm back to searching.

- Thirdly, I'm going to be moving again. Not very far (a couple buildings over), but I'm still moving, and that means time and energy going into something other than writing.

- Fourthly, because of the job search, I've been very depressed. I know it's the economic climate, but right now, I just don't know what to do about everything. I'm working on it, it's just not going very fast.

- Fifthly, we are very close to NaNo. (Writing NaNo and moving in the same time frame? Sure!) I always struggle with a huge dose of apathy right before it begins.

So, that's the reason I haven't been posting/have been scarce for a while.

Now, onto more important things, like writng.

I have been picking at world building for Mira. I think I'm actually getting somewhere, but I'm not so arrogant as to say I am.

Her story is going to be NaNo. I'm actually going to plot it through, eventually, to point out the highlights. Then, look at how it'll go for NaNo.

If anyone wants to friend me on NaNo (even though I rarely go over there...), I'm right here.

For now, I'm going to continue job looking and world building.

I've been thinking lately, about returning to my old routines. I need to write, in ways I cannot explain.

But, I need a routine to do it in.

That may sound strange, but there you have it. I need a set time every day, set aside for nothing but writing.

These last few weeks have had me caught up in so much other stuff that I couldn't write.

There was too much external stuff going on.

There still is a lot of external things going on. Kids are back in school though, and that should give me time to actually work on my writing.

Frankly, I hate to be mean, but my new room mate is going to have to respect the headphones, as well as all the kids. My kids are trained to respect the headphones and know what they mean. They mean Mom Is Working.

I know my new room mate will though. She understands how important the writing is to me. And I won't totally cut myself off. We have the lounge to clean tomorrow, and then we'll see what happens. I plan on putting on my headphones on my head, with my MP3 player and seeing if that helps.

I haven't decided just who I'm going to be writing yet. But it's definitely between Ari and Mira/Hyst. I might look through tonight to see what jumps out at me.

I want to finish up a couple old ideas, before I start worrying about new ones.

See, I have some world building to do. A lot of world building. I'm going to be putting some of it up here, but a lot will be going up on my IJ, under the writing tag/group.

I'll be putting up links here, to whatever it is I use that's an online resource.

I do however want to give a good resource. See, writing doesn't mean that you have lots of money. I've been using AbeBooks to search online used book stores! C'mon used books! That's awesome.

Tomorrow, I'm returning to routine and starting to write again.

Just need to figure out who.