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Bleed-A Poetry Collection

September 20th 2009 18:17
I've been working on Bleed for quite some time now. I don't remember when exactly I started it, but I know it's a project that's been going on all summer and then some. For the last week or two I've been debating turning it into a free eBook, or having some of it come out as a free eBook and then later on the entire thing come out for a price.

I made my official decision today. I am going to release an excerpt of Bleed, which will include ten poems and an introduction. I haven't, as of yet, decided the best way to share this excerpt. I'm debating a couple of free file-sharing sites, as well as giving the file away for free on the website for A Cutter's Journey, or having people send me an email asking for the file/sign up to be a member at A Cutter's Journey so that I have their email and can email them a file containing the excerpt.

I haven't decided what will work best yet. I'm not sure if I want the excerpt to be an exclusive for people who pay attention to my work, blog readers and the like, or if I want it to be available to the wider public.

The full book, which I hope to release by December first, will be an eBook sold for two dollars apiece.

Thoughts anyone? If you know of any good websites I could use for this, let me know at diannalgunn@gmail.com
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What I've Done This Week

September 4th 2009 12:31
So this week I've decided not to continue on with Eternia Falling. I need to do detailed worldbuilding for the time period before I can properly write the book. And that gets to wait until at least December, because right now I've got a lot of work to do for the Jihad series.

I've written several poems in the last week, and I wrote the three pages I need for the Phoenix, one page for Those Who Are/Those Who Have Always Been and two of the pages for Elwin's character bio, so I'm doing pretty well so far with the worldbuilding.

I also looked at my posting schedule and decided to change it. Here is the new one. Now Saturday/Sunday are unplanned days, only Monday-Friday are scheduled, and reviews are no longer scheduled. Why? Because right now I'm reading two very very long books and I won't finish them in time for the next review, and I like long books.

I'm going to try for one book review each month.

What have you accomplished this week?
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September Goals

September 3rd 2009 03:58
Goal setting is incredibly important for a writer. You need to have clear, concise goals that are achievable, and you need to know how to reach those goals, and make each step its own miniature goal.

Personally I've got a couple Big Goals which are more long-term and several smaller goals which mostly build towards reaching those Big Goals. For example, one of my Big Goals is to finish the rough draft of one of the books in the Jihad series by January 1st, 2010. Smaller goals reaching towards that include worldbuilding, character building and outlining.

Here are my writing goals for September:

1. Blog consistently (at least every other day)
2. Get the poem count for Bleed up to 40 (I'm at 23 right now I believe)
3. Edit The Beginning myth for the Jihad world
4. Write 5 pages background notes on the original formation of Appollinia (a kingdom for Jihad)
5. Write 5 pages background notes on the old Elvish kingdom (Elwin's time and his son's time)
6. Write up a 3-page character bio for Elwin, the first Elvish king.
7. Write up 3 pages about the Phoenix (an old Goddess who is found in very early Elvish myth)
8. Write up 3 pages about the Demon (later named Elric; the main evil God)
9. Write up 3 pages about the Fatalis Intarnati (can't really explain these guys here)
10. Brainstorm possible plots in the Jihad world
11. Flesh out one of the adopted plots stolen from the Nano forums.
12. Write one chapter of A Cutter's Journey.

In order to reach all of these goals, I am enforcing a minimum productivity level of one worldbuilding page per day.

Also... I've decided to, at least for the moment, abandon Eternia Falling. Why? Because although I'm familiar with the characters and the world, I'm more familiar with the world 10, 000 years after the fact. I'm not very familiar with the world during Eternia's time. I need to do some mapping, some culture-building for the time period, things like that, before I can properly write the novel. So I'm abandoning that project for the moment, leaving me with more free time to accomplish other goals. Worldbuilding for that will begin again December first.

What are your writing goals for September?
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Hi Guys!

August 31st 2009 06:23
Hi everyone. First off, I'm back to my regular blogging schedule. I'm sorry for the rough week as far as posting is concerned. Posts will be regular again.

I had an amazing birthday weekend. I got the signatures of some great voice actors, got some buttons, a bookmark, two free mangas and a very long book to read written by a friend of mine. Some parts of it weren't so great but I was entirely satisfied after all-especially considering that all the signatures were stroke of luck last minute type things


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I'm Back

August 15th 2009 20:50
Anyone who commented on the posts I've made over the last few days will notice that their comments are now being responded to-and thanks to everyone who's been reading-as I am back from the cottage.

I had a great time. I did pretty much everything I wanted to do in terms of writing except outlining the pre-Nano course I have planned. I went swimming twice every day except yesterday, when I only got down to the beach once (I wish I could've gone twice though). I watched the sun rise and set on the beach, and we had lots of fun with fire


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10 Things To Look Forward To On Fictional Worlds

August 14th 2009 00:11
This is a list of ten things you can look forward to here on this blog over the coming year. I've been planning quite a few workshops and things to do around here to make life more interesting. I've also been debating making a forum for these workshops. Anyone who would be willing to help me run it should contact me at diannalgunn@gmail.com about it.

Here are some things you can expect to see


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2 Year Blogaversary

August 13th 2009 23:40
This is my official two year blogaversary for Fictional Worlds. Today, that is. So I'm writing a special post to talk about the last two years of my writing.

When I first came here, I had never had a poem published. I was completely unknown, unheard of, and no, I could not be found on Google. But I did have one good thing going for me: a talent and passion for writing


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Best Of...

July 30th 2009 05:34
So. My two-year anniversary of blogging is coming up. (Agust 13th) I've decided that on the date itself I will be doing a special post, thanking those who have inspired me since I came here, talking about why I blog etc. etc. It will also have links to some of my best posts since January.

I'm going to do four posts, total, in relation to this. Each one will contain 10 of my favourite posts from a certain time period since I've been here


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Developing Your Voice

July 8th 2009 23:20
I often see writers on various forums asking the same questions. Usually they're questions about things like chapter length, pacing, character building-all those important things. One of the most frequent questions asked isn't specifically about your story though-it's about developing your voice.

Writers ask 'How does one develop their voice


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Working Towards Your Goals

July 3rd 2009 12:51
As writers we must set goals. Without knowing where we want to go, how are we supposed to get there? Especially considering that writing can be such a vicious industry-when we're going for professional publication, we have to be twice as willing to do the work as when we're writing for friends or family.

But once we've written our goals, how do we push ourselves to achieve them


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Updating

June 18th 2009 05:12
So... as everyone who is still reading-thank you, by the way, for bearing with me under the circumstances-is most likely aware, my laptop got sat on a couple months ago. I'm still really upset about this and have not gotten the money back nor a replacing computer.

As such I am now MONTHS behind my writing schedule, which is awful. I haven't been able to actively work on novels and I've only really gotten back into my worldbuilding in the last week or so-losing the computer was not only a blow to my writing in that I then had no computer, but also in that I kind of lost my willpower for a month or two as far as my writing is concerned


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Prompt: Please

March 5th 2009 04:35
Please
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Demons: Prompt

February 11th 2009 05:14
Demons

Demons; they haunt me each night in my dreams. They know my truth, they have seen my reality; the dark void I find myself trapped in, the void they cherish, the void they laugh in. Their cold laughter rings through the void, eating away at my cold soul. My soul cannot go on without further nourishment, it is dying, I am dying


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Prompt: Please

January 23rd 2009 23:14
Please

Please don't say I love you


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Prompt: Hurt

January 21st 2009 20:19
Hurt

Hurt me


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Prompt: Love

January 21st 2009 06:05
Love

Love is the demon


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Learning

January 17th 2009 03:52
Writing is in large part a learning process. A writer needs to be open to new things; this is why we have classes and workshops and books about writing. Not all things will work for you, this is true. We're all different. You probably won't find a class that's absolutely perfect for you. A method won't always work.

But if you don't try new things, how can you possibly know? Everything changes; our writing should too. Let's take the example of a well known author, JK Rowling of the Harry Potter series


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Little Girl

January 4th 2009 09:22
Don't really have the energy for a full length post today, really burnt out from a lot going on.

But my poem 'Little Girl' is now published here


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Saving You

December 28th 2008 23:27
Sorry guys, I haven't posted in a couple of days and this is because of various things; Christmas dinners and then crap that went down with friends.

Anyway, this is a prompt


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Writing Goals 2009 AND Call for volunteers

December 23rd 2008 02:14
So I'm completely and utterly burnt out thanks to Nanowrimo followed by getting back to school followed by the endless week of Christmas. I've got the workshop 95% finished, and since it's almost the new year, here are my writing goals for the year:


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