Crystal Reflections

Was able to manage printing it after going through and editing it. Everything is all set and ready, just need to get it in an envelop and get a stamp and send it off in the mail.

Wish me luck! :D

At 2794, the short story is finished. I thought I would finish at the limit, 3500 because I tend to do that with short stories, but I was able to end it just fine being shorter. Now it's onto editing and figuring out what's wrong with the damn printer so I can either get it in the mail today or tomorrow.

2794 / 2794 words. 100% done!

Can't believe the cover page is only in font size twelve. :p

After finally deciding on a story for the short story contest jpsorrow posted both in Novel_in_90 and his own LiveJournal, I was finally able to name it "The Hunt Is On" and I was able to get the character names finished today so that meant I able to finally work on the story. So far I've written a little over one thousand words and I only have about less than 2,500 left to do before I must finish it.

I just don't know how to make it such a short story. I'm used to short stories being five or six thousand words, but 3,500? It's going to be really tough, especially since I only have until the 15th to mail it off. Even if I do manage to finish it at that word count, it's going to be pretty awkward, I'm guessing, so that in itself is probably going to make me lose. *sigh* I'd love to win, not just for the prize money, but to get my name out there...as I'm sure the others would like as well. lol

I'm liking the characters and the story and I'm still going to attempt to finish it, but I don't think I'm going to be even close to winning. ...then again that could just be my low self-esteem of my writing, but it's probably true. :p Either way, I'm going to keep on trying and maybe looking for other contests to join in the future.

As for news on The Storm's Edge...still have problems with coming up with those damn names and that one city. *sigh* As soon as I'm done working on The Hunt Is On and when I get that sent in, I'm focusing entirely on The Storm's Edge.

So, within the matter of a few hours, the main computer Patrick and I both use to work on our novels, short stories, whatever randomly started having major problems while we were trying to install a wireless PCI network card in order to fix the current and quite annoying internet problems it's been having. Overcome by stress, I immediately started worrying about all those documents, namely speaking of The Storm's Edge, which is nearly 50% done. The internet has been cut off from that computer since two days ago so even when it finally did turn on, I couldn't email myself my docs.

As luck would have it, Patrick's mom happened to have one of those USB disk like chips to transfer files and documents. We put it in and it took forever before it finally recognized it and Patrick set to work on trying to figure it out. After about a half an hour of worry, I finally kicked him off the computer so I could fittle around with it and not even five minutes later, TSE was sitting safely in it.

We put all the important docs on there and now we just need to wait for my computer to be shipped from my mom's house so we can put them on there. The laptop I'm using right now to type this post doesn't have enough free room to put anything more on there, especially TSE. I'm going to hope that my ol' Mac can read those files...

We're probably going to have to take the computer to the computer store and see if they can manage to fix it...it's going to be quite expensive, but we need to do it. It's seriously unstable and without internet. If only we had enough money to buy a flipping new computer Patrick and I would just get rid of the crappy thing right away.

So, as long as the card is safe...TSE and Onslaught at Charei are both safe! I'm happy now even though it's going to be hard to write until my computer gets up here. :p

I'm just getting all the information ready, such as names, creatures and plot information. This short story, however, is a sequel off of Crystal Within the Forest. It'll be called, Onslaught at Charei, and the series title will be, The Vendiss Tales.

I've been thinking about a sequel to CWtF for a few days now and I'm glad I finally got around to thinking it out a bit more. The word count will either be the same as CWtF or a little bit more, we'll see how it turns out.

Now that I've worked on it a bit, I should really get back to working on my Christmas pillows, I have until tomorrow to finish my third pillow and then on sunday I have to start and finish my fourth pillow. Ugh. Luckily I have until the 19th to get my fifth and final pillow (of this year anyway) finished and wrapped.

...I'm starting to hate sewing pillows.