sorry...

After my birthday things just sort of went crazy for me. I was sick, my son was sick, we had a death in the family, my day job went insane...I'll try to post more soon, but for now I'm trying to relax and catch up on some reading.

It's My Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Meeeee!!!

As I look over the past year, I realize how truly blessed I am.

Around this time last year, my hubby was having surgery to fuse part of his spine together. (He had been in a car accident and broken his neck in two places.) And while he may never be 100% again, he is doing really well and is even back to teaching martial arts.

My son is growing like a weed and amazing me everyday. Sometimes it's big things like writing his name for the first time. Sometimes it the little things like when I told him he looked like his daddy, he placed his hand on his head and with his eyes wide and nervous said, "Is my hair gone?" (My hubby shaves his head.) I was laughing so hard I cried.

I've also started (or gotten serious) about my writing career. Like all new writers, I still struggle with the demands of my other responsiblities and still getting time to write, but I'm learning and I'm enjoying the hell out of it.

Here's to another great year!

Back to Work...

I just bought a new computer! Super excited and I love love LOVE it!

It's a 17 inch screen/display and love how much extra viewing I have. During my day job, I have two desktop screens and I've gotten so used to having all the extra room with several programs open and viewed at once. It was hard for me to go home and write on my hubby's small netbook. Consequently, I haven't written much this last month. But I'm back to work now and loving every minute of it. :)

Free ebooks!

In honor of Read an eBook Week, one of the awesome UK publishers is offering a free ebook for every visitor to their new website. You are able to choose from one of eight anthologies which each have five short stories.

The titles available are:A Caning For A Goddess - spanking
All The Boys - gay
Aztec Gold – fantasy
Chocolate Lover – rubenesque
One More Night – ménage and more
The Strap-On – mixed kinky themes
The Twin’s Initiation – mixed themes
Under the Sex – sex at work

So go grab yourself one and get to reading!!

Re-do

I've decided after I finish my current project, I'm going to re-edit and expand Unexpected Appointment (my first story posted on Lit).

This was the first erotic story I ever wrote, and as such, it needs some trimming and adding. Unexpected Appointment only took me an afternoon to write--it just kind of flowed out of me--so it's pretty raw. I was in a hurry to share it (not always a good thing for a writer) and didn't take my time to let is sit before I re-editted and then posted.

It's been about six months since I lasted looked at it, and I'm ready to polish it up. I think I want to send it to a publisher, so I'll also need to take some of the 'questionable morals' out of the story. But don't worry, it will still be hot. *wink*

Happy Valentine's Day

I am currently 7500 words into a story I anticipate being around 20k words. So, Yay Me!

I would be further along, but I'm one of those writers who when I sit down to write, I re-read everything I wrote the last time and edit it. I'm not sure if that makes me a better or worse writer, but there it is.

I hope everyone is having a great lover's holiday. Remember: read some smut and use the inspiration wisely. :)

It's....Kaput. Crapped Out. Finished. Dead.

...my computer that is. Last weekend (before my day of writing - I used my hubby's computer to do that) my computer just shut down. Well, no. It turned off, not shut down. Like I had lost power, but my battery light (and the pop-up warning) never came on, so I didn't know what happened. I took it to the geeks at the computer store, but they said my warranty was expired and it was going to cost me $800 to get it looked at. WHAT?! I didn't even spend that much on the dumb thing when I bought it brand new.

I knew my in-laws were coming into town this weekend (and my father-in-law is a computer wiz) so I figured he could take a look and hopefully fix it. His diagnose? "It's dead. Might as well buy a new one." Damn!

Hubby has let me take over his netbook until I get a new notebook, but it's not the same. I want my baby back!

FIL was able to save all my data (including Internet favorites) so it wasn't a total disaster, but still. These little netbook screens are small; especially when at my day job I use two full sized desktop monitors. But I guess beggers can't be chosers, and I did write quite a bit on the netbook before without a problem...

3000 words...

today. Not bad, not bad at all. Wish it could have been more, but it turned out not to be a waste of a day.

Let's just hope the writing isn't crap. I don't think it is, but I need to let it sit and simmer, then I'll come back, read it again and decide. :)

So Much Time, So Little Getting Done

I have the day off, and so I decided to take the little one to daycare and spend my whole day writing. But of course this is the day the city decides to take care of the pot holes, overgrown trees, and general maintenance on my street. Bang, bang, bang...Not really conducive to quiet writing time.

When I write, I pretty much need silence otherwise my undiagnosed ADD kicks in and I can't focus.

So now I'm going to put some ear phones in and try to get something done...Let's just hope I don't have to completely scratch it out later because it's oh so bad and not in a good way. *wink* :)

My New Nickname...

...Crash. That is what my hubby just named me. Because this morning while walking up the stairs in a parking garage to go into my day job, I fell. Thankfully, not down the stairs, but still.

I missed the next step and instead I fell forward and banged my shin. Now I have a nice black and blue bruise plus a knot that feels the size of a grape fruit.

The up side is my co-workers are really taking care of me, some medication (over the counter, don't worry) to help the swelling go down, an ice pack and a nice chair to rest my leg up on. It is kind of hard to work while sitting with one leg under the desk and the other up on a chair to the side of me. If it weren't for the pain in my leg, it would be a pretty good position for some other things. *wink* Ah, the possibilities.

There's probably even a good start to a story in this situation, but I'm having some trouble focusing on erotic thoughts while my body throbs, and not in a good way.

I signed up for things...

...without knowing what I was getting into.

I read a few blogs (to the right) and one of the authors I love (and I mean love, love, LOVE) said the best place for writers to go for a ton of tips was Erotica Readers and Writers Association. So I went and I signed up (for all four or five groups). I'm still learning my way around and, "Whoa boy!" its crazy.

Not only is it a website of information (call for submissions, adult toys, stories posted, etc.), but from what I can tell, it's also kind of like a chat but through email. Cool, right? Wrong. For someone like me (easily distracted) it's crazy! I have Google Desktop and when the little email box loads and says I have another email, I HAVE to read it. Right then. Like. Right. Now.

I'm either going to have to unsubscribe (which would kind of bum me out because the posts/comments are kinda fun to read and get good info from) or figure out how to automatically send them to an email folder so they don't show up in my inbox. I'm sure there is a way to do that, I've just never tried. Off I go.





UPDATE: Well, I set up an automatic forward to a folder and it seems to be working. So...Yay!