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Totally buggered as to the writing and drawing absolutely nothing going on there at all, but this afternoon Number #2 daughter and I had a breakthrough. We got the jaws of a big woodworking vice we're working on moving. We're restoring it from huge hunk of rust I found in a skip to an operating piece of kit - well that's the plan. Lots of soaking in oil then repeatedly hitting the next piece we're trying to free up this way and that way till they start to move. It's fun. So far we've got 20mm of movement... To be continued.

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Slowly writing ‘Firebirds of Kiranithiaen’ ‘Tom Óg and the Firebirds’ and at about 26,130 words. I know roughly what goes in the empty chapters and the end chapters are all done. :)
Had 1st Vaccine shot on Sat and pollen count has been high.
Mother is cognitively deteriorating, so text and chat a lot with my sister who is primary carer. Mum is still in her own home.
Wasted writing time installing gpu driver, AMD gpu never used in four years. Laptop was using the integrated Intel gfx. Appears you'd never notice except with high end games. Wasted money on an optional extra?
I distracted myself today by installing Steam on Linux.

Running out of excuses for low productivity. Maybe the garden needs attention?
 
I have a deadline to self publish a, er, well, web fiction story by the end of this year. I had set a limit of around 90k words, but will probably go beyond that. I'm currently up to 60K.

No rest for the wicked. I have 9 x WIP earmarked for a finish. I'll be working on finishing off another standalone web fiction that has been heckled because it's on hold.

I aim to complete and release two books a year.
 
Now, I would like to tap into the collective wisdom of our community!
The reason being that I want to lampoon my own novel. I do not know if anyone has ever done it, but I feel an almost insatiable urge to write a parody to The God's Bracelet. I have already started to work on the parody, and proof-readers found those 3 or 4 pages very funny, so this is encouraging.
My thinking was that better I do it right, right off the bat, than someone else does it much later :)
Can anyone recall if writers had ever lampooned their own books, or who it was? I would love to sample their self-flagellating efforts.
 
I'm sure a lot of writers ended up lampooning their own style - I can't see how prolific people like Edgar Rice Burroughs and EE 'Doc' Smith managed to churn out so much awful stuff without having their tongues firmly stuck in their cheeks from time to time. But I can't think of any individual authors/books - I'm sure there have been plenty of books that have included some sort of metafictional content which may be useful - like the wonderful 1930s crime novel The Face on the Cutting Room Floor - the latter part of which includes fictional (not often favourable) newspaper reviews of the first section.
 
So, you could not recall anyone writing a novel that is a 100% lampoon of one of the previous ones by the same author? Yippie! I am going to be the 1st one to do so :)
 
At 71,000 words on The Pelerin's Eye, a Dying Earth novel about a necromancer who becomes a diplomat. Spent the past three days getting from southern Vancouver Island to Prince George, BC, for our regular summer housesit. Woke up last night and found myself thinking of a hell of a plot twist for the final 10k words. Got to cogitate on it.
 
Ray McCarthy said:
Slowly writing ‘Firebirds of Kiranithiaen’ ‘Tom Óg and the Firebirds’ and at about 26,130 words. I know roughly what goes in the empty chapters and the end chapters are all done. :)
Had 1st Vaccine shot on Sat and pollen count has been high.
Mother is cognitively deteriorating, so text and chat a lot with my sister who is primary carer. Mum is still in her own home.
Wasted writing time installing gpu driver, AMD gpu never used in four years. Laptop was using the integrated Intel gfx. Appears you'd never notice except with high end games. Wasted money on an optional extra?
I distracted myself today by installing Steam on Linux.

Running out of excuses for low productivity. Maybe the garden needs attention?
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Congrats on the rough outline! Yes, gardening is dominating my schedule this time of year. Sorry about your Mom! Mine broke her hip, and so my writing for a while was a flurry of family emails. I've got one vaccine shot, too, waiting for the second.

I've expanded and edited a short I wrote for the micro, and had it critiqued in one of my writing groups. The good news from everything moving on-line is I was able to rejoin an old group from before I moved to NB twenty years ago. Great group! The one I run at the local library is on hold until the meetings can be live again.

There's some solid progress on marketing my SF series. It's been taking a lot of time to figure out and adjust Amazon ads but at least I've had some some ebook sales and a steady stream of page reads through Kindle Unlimited for a few weeks, more spotty before that.

The brain is starting to work on book three!
 
Preparing for a new large scale work. Got stuck on one bit, so waited for my subconscious to do its thing. It did its thing while I was cleaning my teeth last night. Now, to continue...
 
Having finally finished The Child's Prison, I am able to focus on previous, unfinished manuscripts.
Sat down to choose between a post-apocalyptic drama, Evil, 100%, and a near-past detective thriller, The Things I Love and Hate, my hands have chosen the former and begun to type away, at the rate of 20 pages per day. That will decline somewhat, in the coming days.
 
Finished Part Three of Amulet of Tears recently & it's now published as an eBook over of Amazon. So far I haven't wanted to illustrate the project with anything more than a few sketches but I'm slowly coming round to the idea & seeing some time coming up in this year where I can. It would be fun to put three parts together with colour illustrations.
These three parts very much feel like a Book One, which means that ideas and storylines for Book Two are already starting to bubble up in my mind.

(Just adding to this, I decided to turn the three parts into Book One which is now over on Amazon as an eBook!)
 
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