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Weekly Word Count

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I am SO close to finishing Steven. Up until today, I hadn’t gotten a chance to sit down and write since last week. Or, I’d squandered what chances I -did- have. Heh. In any case, the ending is flowing out of me, even with my determination not to rush it. I -always- seem to rush endings.

And, you know, what ending isn’t a beginning, after all? ;)

A new chapter of Steven went up yesterday over on the Short Fiction page:

http://www.davidmcrampton.com/fiction.php

Any feedback is more than welcome.

Soon, I’ll be working on The Glass Crown again! I’m incredibly excited.

“You played it for her, you can play it for me.”

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There’s about a billion things in my head that I keep wanting to get out, so I’m going to do a couple at a time.

This weekend’s move will start at 11 AM, and we’ll meet at my current apartment. Tomorrow is a packing/get water and gas turned on/grocery shopping day, and I should have the whole place packed by the end of the day. If you need directions, or the address or some such, just drop me a phone call or a comment here.

I desperately need to shave my face.

traded me a sweet shiny black computer case for my portable CD/MP3 CD player the last time he was down, but I totally forgot to get it to him. It’s sent out with delivery confirmation and tracking, so it best get to him in one piece.

Remember that cassette tape MP3 player that I’ve been gushing about? This one? Well, I finally spent part of my Micro Center gift card on SD cards for it, and it… has issues. It spazzes out with anything longer than a four-minute song on MP3 when it comes to pausing and resuming. It ejects from my car’s tape player with an E11 error – broken tape. So, it’s basically useless to me. I ordered the thing back around my birthday, in early May, and so I figured I was stuck with it. No harm in trying to return it, though, right?

I e-mailed ThinkGeek with the situation, quoted this spot from the ad:

You will have no problems listening to hours of your favorite songs via the built-in SD card slot, and you can easily change to different songs if you have multiple SD Cards.

and got an email back the next day with a shipping label, RMA number, and apologies. So, I’ve packaged it up, labeled it, and sent it back. They’re going to give me a full refund. I think I’ll end up with a microSD-expandable Sansa player, because I want to be just like . I mean, c’mon. Don’t you?

Writer’s Block: Where Names Come From

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Back when I traded dial-up BBS handles for an ICQ UIN, I found myself prompted to create a username. I was heavily into White Wolf role playing games at the time, having recently graduated from AD&D 2nd Edition. Inside the White Wolf universe, a newly created vampire is called a Childe, and the creator vampire is called a Sire. As I was still pretty new, I decided to go by Childe.

Like the Skippy nickname, it stuck. And that’s… the rest of the story.

Weekly Word Count

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I spent yesterday before work writing in the last issue of Steven. It’s half done, and I’ve got the last chapter of the last issue rattling around in my head. I’ve also posted more of Steven’s Book 2 on the Short Fiction page, so feel free to stop by and eat up that chapter. :) I had so much fun developing Blaize from Steven’s prodigy to a mentor in her own right… and she really rose to the challenge.

Steven’s page: http://steven.davidmcrampton.com/
Short fiction page: http://www.davidmcrampton.com/fiction.php

I hope to finish Steven entirely on my lunch/dinner break tonight. I’m going to give the sequel a shot as my main project afterward, which I know at least a few of you will be happy about.

Any tips for me on how to write with distraction? Up until now, I’ve needed to sequester myself with headphones, and derail pretty easily when interrupted, either from outside sources or my own need to look at shiny things. Being a Dad figure for kids is going to necessitate an ability to write amidst chaos, I’m thinking. :) So, any advice would be very helpful.

Call for Help

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Let me start this off by saying that I suck at helping people move. I either end up sick, or too whiny and petulant. I detest moving, and I’ve avoided helping my friends do it in the past, and I acknowledge the full level of suck that this heaps upon me.

Not only that, but last time I asked for help moving, I did it the day of. *facepalm*

So, with that understanding, I am asking for help moving.

On the weekend of 09-10 August, I will be moving my (packed) crap from both my apartment and my storage and into the shiny, fancy, awesome house that and I are renting. There will be pizza and pop provided to all laborers, er, minions, er… helpers. :) There will be two teams – one with me getting stuff from the storage unit and the apartment, and the other team will be getting stuff out of ‘s house. She has more stuff, so Team 1 may merge with Team 2 in the aftermath.

Yeah, I really just wanted to use the word aftermath.

So, leave a comment here, or drop me a phone call, and you will be welcomed with open arms. Or, with a box to carry. Or something. :)

Weekly Word Count

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Book 2 of Steven continues as Steven makes his way to Detroit. I’ll probably put up the next chapter later this week, as I’ve been lax in getting them up regularly. Check it out over here.

I know that lack of feedback is a normal issue with people who write… when it’s good, there’s nothing to complain about, I guess. However, I’m wondering how to find out if people are reading the stuff I’m putting out there – if it’s useful to have out there – without asking in a whiny, nasal voice. I guess this sort of qualifies as asking, doesn’t it?

I’m feeling a ton better today than I have in weeks. I’m pretty sure that I’m leaving, or have left, the mono behind. I need to make sure that I’m still getting a decent amount of sleep as I’m packing and such, but I can’t wait to reschedule my sleep test and get the CPAP. Being more awake, I’m hoping, will allow me to concentrate better while writing. I have to remember – it’s okay to suck. That’s what first drafts are for.

Random Content

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I am awake, with the aid of Frappuccinos. I feel like I’ve somehow betrayed my Gone Wired roots.

Ever run for office by imitating a webcomic? Somebody in Kansas is doing it. Thanks to for the link.

I like these things:
– Good writing.
– Melodrama.
– The paranormal.
– Legends, myths, religions, and disturbing commonalities between them all.
– Fiction.
– Serial fiction.

There’s a well-written, dark, mystic serial fiction that gleefully dances into melodrama, the paranormal, legends, myths, religions, and disturbing commonalities between them all. I keep linking to it. Unfortunately, being an LJ community, it’s written backwards. Newest entry, and therefore the most recent “end” to the story, shows up first. I wonder if re-arranging them in chronological order, via links, including the introduction and story behind it, would make it easier to read…

Yes, I’m talking about the .

Good article on the attempt by politics to polarize a nation that mostly strives towards the middle. This one from .

Went to ‘s preliminary appointment today. She’s got what she needs to get a referral to an OBGYN.

I’m here at work late tonight. Will be crashing hard when I get home, and likely sleeping until just before I have to come into work tomorrow.

Last rent payment sent off to my current apartment complex. All I have left to do is pack, do a light cleaning, move out, and drop off my keys and forwarding address. New address will be forthcoming as moving commences.