Heir To Magic

I keep telling myself to get back to work on this story, but every time I think about needing to work on it I am busy with something else that is currently paying me to work on it instead.  Right now it is a couple of advertisements I am working on for people and some transcription work that I have been given.  The transcription is cool, it is something I have considered more than a few times, so getting the chance to work on a transcription project is really nice.  I’m thinking about adding that to my list of stuff I do, but might hold off and see how I feel about it after I finish with this project.

For now, Heir to Magic is on pause, still, while I try to get through the holidays and into the new year.  I’ll revisit it when I am working on my new year’s resolutions.

I’ve been so fried out and frazzled that you would not even believe it.  The past few months I have been on a very fine line between “I’m doing good” and screaming and throwing things at walls.  It’s not helping my sanity any to sit here in the house and look around and know that if something happens to my dad that … that’s it.  I pack up whatever I can manage to fit into a few boxes and tuck it into the trunk of the car and…

And what.  I have about $200 I could scrape together and no hope of beingable to get approved for a loan to save my parents house.  I can’t even afford an airline ticket to somewhere warm enough to camp out until I could afford rent on a low rent apartment.  Forget being able to take my dogs with me.  I would have to leave me, mom and dad’s dogs with someone else.  The Wookie would last about a week then die of stress.

So, if I don’t seem to be keeping this blog updated, if I seem to have flipped off NaNoWriMo, if I seem to have stopped working on Heir to Magic — I have other things on my mind.  I’m trying to think of how I can save my parents house and pounding my head against a wall.

I got my desktop computer back home, finally!  I loaded back up my writing programs last night and the night before and will get Heir to Magic loaded back on it tonight.  It is sooooo nice to have it back home where it belongs, trying to balance work and protecting my laptop from being burned up from overuse was not easy.

Most importantly, I can now get back to  my writing course, which I have been missing so very very much.

I am trying to decide if I would be completely insane to participate in NaNoWriMo this year.  I want to participate, but I also have a lot of other things that I have to do.  I know I write enough to qualify for winning NaNoWriMo ten times over in a month, but to focus all of that onto a single novel…. :::cringe:: I already have a novel in the works.

Now, there is some kind of deal I had seen that let you work on a current novel during that time, but I forget what it was called or where I saw it.  I like the challenge of a new story myself, so I might just go along with my scheme to start book 2 of Heir - rather or not I finish the rough draft of book one by then or not.  I know where book 1 ends, so I could easily start book 2, I just have to decide if I want to do that or not.

It seems like I have lost about three days over the past two days.  One step forward, two steps back and all that jazz.  My ability to focus seems to be non-existent, so, of course, the muse is as equally non-existent.  I need to get things sorted out and start really working my butt off on my novel, but I need to wait until I get my desktop back from HP before I can do that.

You heard that tale, didn’t you?  My computer malfunctioned and had to be sent back to HP to have them retattoo the mother board or something like that.  I don’t expect to get it back before probably Friday at the earliest, probably the next Friday if I am lucky.  Until then I am getting as much work done each day as I can using my laptop and trying not to burn it out using it as a desktop.