Dance With The Devil

I am having serious problems with working on Plain Jane. It's so slow going because I don't have a clue what I am doing. You'd think after writing a whole novel I would've already gotten with the program. Still, I admit that there are days when I really just love it. And then there are days when I want to shoot myself, or even worse, burn my manuscript.

It's definitely a love/hate relationship. ;)
And revision completely sucks. :(

I'm really into working on my fanfiction.net fic, Dance With The Devil. It's gotten a lot of reviews and someone even made banners for it.

It's a Vampire Diaries story about an original female character (OFC) (Rose Cresswell) who is abused and is saved by Damon. She in turn saves him from his obsession over Katherine. And there's a twist. She's a witch and knows all about vampires. But I won't say any more. Who knows who might be reading... ;)
(My winking smiley faces look demented on here. How odd.)


I'm hungry. I think I'll go find some food and write more. Bye-bye!

Write with patience,

                            ~ Plain Jane

Losing The Finger And Working With yWriter

I just lost about half my finger in a terrible kitchen accident involving scalloping potatoes.

Just kidding. I cut the tip off, but I won't bleed to death. Pity, isn't it? It'd make a great story if I did. *wink*

Typing isn't particularly easy but I'll probably still manage to pump out hundreds of words of fan fiction. Be nice if I was that dedicated to my novel.

I haven't done a whole lot of work on Plain Jane lately. I'm working with a new software called yWriter. It's amazing. It's not like any other writing software I've seen out there, and it's FREE. Yeah, people. FREEEEEEE!

I love it. It's unlike anything out there for writers. Take a look: http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html
What's to lose, right? 'Cause it's FREE!

Try New Things

     Has anyone heard of Cheryl Corbin's mini-course, 8 Steps to Goal Setting (and Achieving!) for Writers? It's pretty cool so far. I've only done lesson one, but so far so good.
     I was looking for writing advice online one day and her site came up. I liked her blog, subscribed to the newsletter, and have loved everything from her ever since. She, like Holly Lisle and Lazette Gifford, seems to have a good grasp on the writing stuff that works. I myself like to try every technique under the sun, but I personally don't think that's a bad thing. It gives me a lot more room to find things that work for me, unlike if I was stuck on one thing and one thing only.
     I like to experiment. Try new things. It gives me a challenge. I feel that there's not one person in the world that I can't learn something from. It's all about being open minded and looking very hard at what other people do and say, and trying something new.
     Like the Book-In-A-Week community. On Cheryl Corbin's Need For Speed mini-course, the first assignment was to look at the FAQS page on the community's website. I scoffed. Yeah right! I thought. Like I could actually write anywhere near an entire book in a week. But I did go and look at the FAQS page like she said, and whadda ya know, it wasn't anything like I thought it would be. It actually looks pretty cool. I think I might even join. There's a $3 non-refundable members' fee, but I'm pretty sure it's just a one time thing to make sure you're serious. There's even prizes and stuff.

     So here's the lesson of the week: Be open minded and TRY NEW THINGS! Things that you would normally look at and think, Yeah right! about. I cannot stress enough how important it is to try new things. It has gotten me from wishing to be a writer to actually having a completed first draft and a crud load of ideas, more ideas than I would know what to do with in a lifetime.

     Write with an open mind,
                                        ~ Ashlie