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!

Revision: The Unhappy Word

I think revision is my unhappy word of the month. I am floundering to get things going with it, and am mostly just piddling around with my manuscript instead of getting any real work done. It's kind of sad actually.

I have about sixty thousand words on the screen and am about twenty to forty thousand short of what I need for the finished product.

I have this one scene where my heroine and her fake boyfriend are fighting werewolves. They defeat the werewolves... but then the werewolves just disappear. I didn't give any explanation as to where they went and I have no idea what to do with it.

My dialogue is pretty generic too. I need to do some serious revision on that, add a bunch of scenes (which I have not yet written), add about thirty thousand words, fix scenes that are about as dead as can be, and still do outlining on one of my other novels and worldbuilding on another one after that.

Remind me again why I wanted to be a writer? No, seriously. Please do.

The book I'm working on right now, Plain Jane, is the first of a trilogy but the only one that I've done any real work on. I have most of everything figured out but I stil have character sketches, worldbuilding, plotting and a bunch of other crap to do. And on top of all that, we're going though a bankruptcy, losing our house, have lost two vehicles, and are trying to get out of the last house before we're locked out. Oh, and someone got into our house and stole two hand guns, a PS 2 system, and our X Box 360. Talk about kicking someone when they're down...

Anywho, I've been pretty lax with this blog but I'm hoping that once things slow down I'll have a chance to do more writing and blogging. Right now, I'm struggling with just the writing.

To all you other writers out there:

PRAY.

It's the only advice I can give.

Write with hope,

                    ~ Ashlie (I've changed the way I spell it)

I Have A Dream...

You know how Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream? Well, I have a dream too. Now it's no where near as altruistic as equality amongst our races, but I still think it's pretty cool.

My dream is to have a career in the fiction writing genre.

Which is why this blog is called "My Future Writing Career."

My name is Plain Jane, and the reason I created this blog is to share my agonizing journey to publication with all other aspiring writers out there so that they know:

YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!!

Holly Lisle is more or less my inspiration for even attempting to have a writing career at all. Before finding her site three years ago, I never thought that I would be able to pursue a career in writing, regardless of how much I loved it.
Holly Lisle is a writer with more that 30 books published and more on the way. I ran across her website http://hollylisle.com, and figured if a single mother with two jobs could do it then why not I?

I'm only 17, but I already have a finished novel under my belt, and I'm working on book number two while revising the first one.

Pray for me, Fellow Writers. Heaven knows that I need it! ;)

~ Plain Jane