Miscellany and Musings

First of all- SNOW!  Like not a dusting, more like almost 8 inches.  Of course school was cancelled and the roads were such a nightmare that I only had half a day at work on Monday and didn't go in at all today.  I shovelled the driveway and sidewalk today, took Joey out to play in it (it was up to his knees lol).  We tried sledding but it was too light and airy and even once we packed it down we couldn't get it going.  Oh well, maybe next time.

Has anyone used Create Space through Amazon to publish a print book?  Basically Amazon will print your book for the cost of the printing, individually.  Whatever you set the price at past that is pure profit.  I'm less excited about profit and more excited about having a physical book in hand that I can give someone to consider really publishing it. Might really have to get on those illustrations now, will have to send some messages to confirm some things about that. Also- anyone want to beta them?  "Them" is a series of 4 children's books dealing with gender roles and very early discovery of gender expression. All of them are about a page long in word, quick and easy I promise.  Message me we'll get it going.

My best friend had her sleeve gastrectomy today, though she didn't have it because she's obese, she had it because she's got MS and the last time she had a bad bout with it, her extra weight made it difficult to recover.  They want her on the border of underweight to help manage that, and to keep diabetes from setting in, as it runs in her family and is usually very severe.  Her mother had the rest of her family convinced she was trying to commit assissted suicide (she lives in Washington state where apparntly that's legal).  Her mother is very much a person that is always trying to make everything about herself, so Sharon's surgery had nothing to do with medical stuff, it had everything to do with wanting to end her life and make her mother miserable.  I can't stand that woman.  I only spoke to her once and the whole time, she yelled at Sharon for something or another. Sharon came through her surgery just fine, and even lost her gallbladder and appendix just to be safe.

Dear Big Bang fic that I've been living and breathing for the better part of 3 years: please let's finish this up.  Big Bang sign ups aren't even up but I want to finish this and be ready so I don't have to even think about it anymore.  I'm almost done with chapter 6 and we're tying up loose ends all around but god dang, writing it shouldn't be like freaking pulling teeth. There's so many players on the chessboard that aren't doing anything- let's get it going already!  Where are my muses??  Varys and Madame I'm looking at the both of you...

Boys are gross, btw.  Little boys in particular.  This kid refuses to bathe and more than once I've told him his weezer is gonna fall off if he doesn't start taking better care of it.  TMI ALERT- he's circumcised but he has an inverted penis, so it's like he's uncut in how his weezer works.  Daddy is the same way.  Any tips on keeping him cleaner without physically throwing him in the tub more often?

Enjoy my most recent ear worm- Roy Mustang style

Strep test came back negative.  Cough is finally letting up some.  He's got some gnarly diarrhea and his tonsils are still huge, but they are not red or pus-sy looking like they were even a few days ago.  He seems worn out, but he's been fighting a lot of stuff off.  Drinking lots and lots and no more orange pee.  I couldn't get his blood work done because the place closed early due to snow, so his doctor said if he's still improving that it's optional if I want to take him to do it.  Still have to bring him in on Thursday or Friday when he finishes the Bactrim, to recheck his ears and look at those tonsils again.  I think I'm going to take him for blood work anyway,  Might help with the tonsil thing, I dunno.  She says if he keeps improving that it's not mono, and if the ears are still bad we may have to consider tubes.  I'd assume a tonsillectomy as well if these things don't go down.  Mom said her tonsils were like that as a kid and she didn't have to have hers removed, but we'll see.  If this is how they react and it's NOT strep, I can't imagine what would happen should he really get strep.  This diarrhea though...  Wonder if they make some children's Imodium or something.

Big Bang is coming along.  I just put chapter 7 in the final folder and am clocking in at 50,800 words.  Got about two chapters to go and an epilogue, so almost done.  And in the middle of all this the Stoner Series is crying out for the strip club fic I'd talked with bay115 about doing.  We'll get to meet the Devil's Nest crew in that installment.

I wish I could apply all this writing to some original characters and make money at this.

I'm sure by now most people on my f-list (which has recently expanded by quite a few people O__O) know I have a comm set up where I've got everything I've ever written posted.  That way even if you're not a member of the same fic comms as I am, you can still read my stuff (if you want to).  Anyway, if you're interested, you can find it HERE.  It's all conveniently sorted by fandom and character to make things easy to find.

There are a couple of collections that I will add to rather than post them separately.  Those are:

Kisses Sweet and Sultry- A place for FMA pieces that contain any kind of kisses.  They aren't always romantic stories, but they all have a kiss in them.

The Magpie and the Rook- My Braeda/Chris one shots and contest pieces.  A companion to Whatever it Takes.

Blooms of the Moon and Other Stories- A place for my InuYasha fics containing Sesshomaru's mother and Kohaku.

And pimp post is now finished!

Big thanks to catw00man who beta'd for me and nightlove1 who helped me figure out why my pov was all wrong and how to know when I'm doing it.

TITLE: On the Outskirts of December
AUTHOR: Sonja Jade
FANDOM: Trigun
CHARACTERS: Wolfwood/Milly, Vash, Meryl, a slew of OCs (orphan children)
WORD COUNT: 7,120
RATING: M (for sexy times that aren't very graphic in description)
WARNINGS: Flashbacks to intimate relations between Wolfwood and Milly according to anime
canon, frank talk about pregnancy and related things, AU.
SUMMARY: After Wolfwood's death, Milly travels to December to take over the
orphanage he left behind. As she endures pregnancy in the middle of
nowhere, a certain priest makes his return, but he's reluctant to show
his face to her, until Vash discovers him and gives him a verbal boot in
the ass.

(Fake cut takes you to ff.net)

I went and signed up to do a fic for that secret pineapple comm that was advertised (at some FMA comm) and I did exactly what they wanted me to do: submit a list of 4 prompts and when the list was released I had to choose at least 2 to write.  Looking over the list, there's only 1 I really had my heart set on, and the other was kinda so-so.  All the rest were fandoms I don't know, and the ones I did know, I didn't feel comfortable writing the characters.  So I send in my choices and I get an email back saying that my choices were snapped up already and that I was put into an 'author lottery' and I drew another author and they gave me a list of all that person's prompts.  The FMA ones are for Roy/Olivier, and one of the stipulations is that by the end of the fic they have to stay together.  The other fandoms I have no clue what they are.

If I felt I could have written that comfortably, I would have chosen that. So now I'm stuck writing a story I don't want to write because these people are stupid and don't allow doubling up of prompts.  Whatever.  What I want to know is should I attempt to write the fic anyway, or politely contact the mod and tell them I can't write this pairing to the prompter's specifications.  It's OOC for Olivier to want to stay with Roy, and it's OOC for Roy to know how to win her over.  My biggest pet peeve is OOC stuff.  Based on that alone, I cannot write Roy/Olivier, at least not where they end up staying together.

Ideas?  Suggestions??  WTF do I do?

In other news, I fell in the garage while I was holding the baby and I damn near broke my legs trying to keep Joey from hitting the ground.  It hurts to walk, and I think I got something stuck in my foots because SJ is a barefoot hillbilly and never wears shoes unless it involves getting in the van and going somewhere. 

Less than a week until I'm lazing on Myrtle Beach :D 

I got this story, it's a GREAT one, but it is really lacking. Anyone interested in reading it and giving me some hints on how to make it better?? I'll be happy to share it with ya, it's for 36iyerotictales theme 17 Fear/comfort.

I know the sex scene needs to be better. I feel like I'm starting to repeat myself so I made this one kinda short and stupid :P

I feel like the plot itself is too choppy... I'd really like a different perspective if anyone has time.

aww the hell with it I'm gonna jump cut it and put it here



Yeah, so HALP!

As usual, I'm always late for important things.  I was looking through the doc files on my laptop (got a new one and converting old stuff to my thumbdrives and such)  and I found my epic viking story.  Found the first draft, the rework and the new beginning I wanted to add to it to switch the tone from being told from the heroine's pov to the hero's pov.  I already have almost 2000 words in the new beginning and 14,149 into the main work.  That's like almost half the 50k words right?  It's been years since I looked at it, and the whole thing is based off a dream I had that mde me think it would be a great story.  Is it against the rules to use something you started a long time ago?  I wasn't aware until recently that there were rules at all...  Doesn't matter to me, I could still use this time to work SOLELY on it, and it is an original work, and it IS November.. I think I'll just have to break down and take a look if there is an official website.

OHH now I'm excited about writing again!

Oronok and Lassah ftw!