May 23, 2006

Sha-ching! (for lack of a better title)


I know, I know, it’s been a long time since I’ve last posted (wow, two weeks!) but there’s nothing for it. Last Tuesday (or Wednesday, I can’t remember) I received a very terrible virus that caused all my executables to stop working. Extremely annoying, especially since I was unable to simply reinstall the programs infected. Worse of all, the virus affected my burning software and I had to back up all my documents on the thumbdrive. This would have been fine if the virus hadn’t infected the tumbdrive, too.

Long story short, it took me 5 days, the loss of several files, as well as two months worth of e-mails before my computer was back up to it’s old persnicity self.

If you haven’t guessed by this time no, I have not been able to write a word save for two pages on my outline. Ok, fine, but now I’m down to 39 days to either get this darn story finished and a query sent out, and focusing all my attention and energy on my web design.

On that note: I managed to buy the domain TheGildedPen.com. I’ve wanted to buy this domain for over 3 years now, but thought it a little overboard to have more than two domains. With the failing of aaastud.com – my equine promotion site – I’ve let it go and taken up TGP instead. Now, all I have to figure out is what to do with it. Should I make it another writers’ community, or a review site? The option that has been pounding on the back of my brain since I bought the domain is to turn it into a promotion site. I have only seen two sites that offer promotional services to authors, and while I do not have the extreme knowledge of promotion, I know enough for the e-book community.

Well, I’ll have to think about it. Feel free to let me know your ideas on the subject. For the time being, I’m going back to write. With the computer up, this blog post finished, my fingers are ready to fly (and if the above text hasn’t convinced you yet, I have a lot to say).

Happy Writing,
Amber


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May 3, 2006

Progress is as Progress does

I know it's been a while and I've been remiss in posting, but, well, there hasn't really been anything worth posting. My writing isn't going as well as I would like. I've been busy with 3 web sites and a number of web banners. I did manage to scribble out some stuff for my short story, but that's about all. Not very inspiring. Hopefully this next week will go much better.

My progress so far:

Start Count: 12,752
End Count: 12,801
To go: 82,199

Day 66. Wrote: 49
Day 65. Wrote: 0
Day 64. Wrote: 0
Day 63. Wrote: 0
Day 62. Wrote: 0
Day 61. Wrote: 0
Day 60. Wrote: 0
Day 59. Wrote: 0

Happy Writing,
Amber

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