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Jun 17 2013

Another rainy Monday


Yup it rained and will rain more today.  I got some photos, and now I have to sit my butt down and work on matching photos to poems for my next collection.  Now i could just put in lovely images of flowers but I did that last time.  This time I want to be a bit different.  The images should convey what the poem is about right?  Well we will see.  With the clouds and the sun that breaks through from time to time it is a day to reflect.

Music, tea, photos and poems.  Can make for a good day or a sad one.  Just not sure.  The rain washed away the dirt and pollen but t the moment the world looks a bit washed out to me.  Later this week the vibrant will be back and wonder will cover us all.f0404464  Just a little image of some tadpoles for today.  Normally I throw all my photos over on Window of my Mind but I thought this was kinda sweet.  My daughter took this on a walk we took together.  We have to remember no matter what else that happens in our life that the world continues to bring new life into being.  Simple little things that make you smile if you look for them.

I don’t know why I am introspective today but we all need days like this to clear out our minds.

Maybe this is what I need

 

Clarify your thoughts

Clarify
keep the words simple
tell the truth
for it will come out in the end

Keeping secrets
can lead to more pain
than the truth you hide
pain we both feel

Think deep
look inside
tell  yourself what is true
clarify your thoughts

 

Jan 21 2013

Formatting poetry and photos


Oh boy is this a pain in the …. I have a lovely collection of poetry and photographs all together now.  Love, Loss and Loneliness is up on smashwords in various formats but oy vey driving me batty.

Some of them look great, others look like my 10 year old did the formatting.  And the worse part is when I went back to work on the doc file it was GONE!  Okay only the smashwords version but I just spent over an hour on the spacing and it went poof!  Just what I didn’t need.

Now I have to calmly take the doc file I have of the main manuscript, fix it up again, find the error that review part of smashwords says is there and fix it then resubmit.  Something about a space bar issue?  Grrrrrrrrrr.

Really what is with that autovetter?  I didn’t use the spacebar to do carriage returns.  Really!

The images look good and most of the poetry is where it is supposed to be but not all of course.

I tried uploading it to kobo first and oh god the issues there.  It kept putting in spaces that I didn’t have between the lines of poetry which of course messed up the alignments.

I am afraid to do the amazon version.  The mobi on smashwords was so messed up!

Well if you readers want a copy you should download the epub or the rtf.  Those seem to be working the best so far.

Back to the saltmine and hope this works.  Why of why did I decide to do both photos and poetry?  Oh yeah right…cause they are really good.

Jul 26 2012

Maybe I should…


Okay I know  I am a fiction writer.  Fantasy in all its twists and turns is my wheelhouse but damn there are days I really seriously think about putting out a cook book.  Now why would I want to do that you say?  Well see I have been doing a lot of experimentation since my mother in law passed.    She wasn’t a big fan of anything out of the basic food category and really really really didn’t like anything orange…unless it was peach that is.

So i have been digging out recipes and changing them.  Playing with the spices in them or some of the basic ingredients.  Coming up with things for my honey and little girl to eat and enjoy.  Must are good, occasionally I need to toss something before anyone other than me is subjected to it.  (That would be the hazelnut brownies…bad bad bad) But today  I decided since my hubby loves peach flavors I would try to make him some muffins.  And I can say this…OMG they were sooo good.

I always try to eat at least one to make sure that my cooking isn’t yucky but damn if I didn’t end up eating four of them hot from the oven slathered in butter…they were sooo good.

So Now I have to think, should I really try to put one together.  I know my brownies are popular with hubby’s coworkers and the doughnut bits I have been playing with the kids in the neighborhood (and more coworkers) love.  The batter for making deep friend chicken/turkey strips needs just a hint of salt to be fab.  So who knows, maybe I should put together the 18 or so recipes I have been playing with.

My fiction is moving, if slowly.  A few people are telling me to put out my erotica, my poem videos are getting some notice and I could probably do a poetry book and then there is my photography.  I think I have so much to publish that I could put out things every week and still not clean out all the completed or to be completed files.

I just don’t know.  I like this world of digital publishing but can I make a living at all this?  We need me to help with money.  I just don’t know.

Jul 6 2012

Knight Protector


Well I put Knight Protector up on Amazon.  Not that I expect any more movement there than at the other websites but I can track better over there.  It is an older tale and well after I posted it I noticed a few little tweaks I need to make but too late now.  Hopefully it will get some interest.  Being as this story is more a fantasy romance it just might.  I know romance stories do move on the web.  The fact that I might need to start posting my erotica up to get sales would bother me a bit.

I will admit I work hard on everything I write.  From the urban fantasy that I have posted up all ready, to the fantasy and science fiction, the light horror stories and even the erotica.  I don’t want to be put in a category really.  I love to write, kinda obvious I know with everything I put up.  I’m gonna try to get the video program working right so I can do another poem video or three.  And of course I need to work on the children’s story.  At the moment I can’t access the pictures that I made for the story which is said.  They aren’t super professional but they do move the story along and kids need a cute story right?

Yeah I am babbling this morning.  It is hot and humid and i am trying to settle myself down to do something creative.  If it was cooler I would probably work on something foodlike.  Having mastered the mini donuts, which we are calling Lisa Bites, I now need to come up with a new treat for my family.  What to do?

And yesterday while it was too hot to work on the computer, yes the computer didn’t like me much yesterday.  I decided to sit down and do an old fashioned hobby.  I have this pillow case that I am embroidering little blue flowers on.  At  the moment I am up to the leaves, finally.  I will admit I started this project an age ago.  So many things I work on that sometimes one or more get pushed to the background.  Okay enough babbling.  Time to finish the music video I started yesterday with my photos of squirrels, chipmunks and bunnies.  Only partially as cute as it sounds.  I decided that Born to Be Wild will be the soundtrack.  Gods I can be silly at times but the photos are nice.  Laters!

Jul 1 2012

Some days


Well yesterday was almost a total waste of time.  All day headache and queasiness made working on my books hard.  I managed to do some editing and rewriting on Partings, so that it flows better.  Thanks to Chuck and Larry and David for their comments  on how to make that shortie short better.  Need to make a cover,e etc before I post it.

Managed to get Hope Everlasting posted up on Kindle.  I figured since it was done and ready I would put One More All Hallows Eve up for free for the next four days.  Did that just before I went to bed and crashed.  Got up this morning and I can tell the boards are slow.  Only seven downloads as of 8am and no comments on the discussion boards.  But then there were hardly any after I went to bed.  Guess everyone is enjoying their weekend.  Good thing to do.

It is Canada day here and there were lots of fireworks going off last night.  While I am glad they were celebrating oh my did that make my head worse. Still touchy this morning.  Something around here is making my allergies go into overdrive.  Not sure what though.

Well today I have the goal of writing at least ten pages.  Not necessarily on one piece but that would be nice.  Just gotta see which one hits my up side the head and says work on me.  Yeah I should do more editing on Star Beast…or maybe I could pull out my really awful stuff and see if I can save it in any way.  After all even as a teen I had great ideas, just didn’t have the ability to tell them well.

It’s funny I am putting up short stories and even shorter stories but I am almost afraid to put up Loralil.  The two books are longer than my shorts, three to four times longer but I am just not ready to let that baby go I guess.  Maybe when I finally get some idea what i want for the covers.  It is hard because I don’t want something too cheesy but I don’t have the funds to get something really good made up for me.  She is close to my heart, after all I have been writing her longer than I have had kids and my kids are my center.

okay enough on this blog.  I should go to the other page I set up on wordpress and put up the other covers I have.  That is what that is for.  Covers and book trailers and series trailers.  Fun stuff that needs a place.  I will probably even put up the threatened poetry videos.  If I can decide what poems from ages ago I feel worth the effort.  Most of those are DEPRESSING but heck I was pretty depressed 10 to 15 years ago.  Now I am just silly and tired and cooking stuff way too much.  Yeah someday I will do that threatened cook book and photography book too!  Okay time to work.