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I thought I'd better do a bit of a ramble about these wretched scribblings of mine. *grins*

I had been working on Roh for a while every night until I got face to face with one of the Kids named Jareth, who has been giving me pains. I do not intend to work on Roh for a while yet! *dark glare* FaM [Fire and Moonlight] is going slow as Christmas, although I did manage to work a bit in chapter two last night. It'll take some convincing on my part to get that one off the ground. My first novel, Heveria, is all edited in Part One with the infamous final draft, but is going to require a total rewrite past that. Goody. Currently, I've taken up some other engagements which will stun you into deep and sudden shock...SYD AND I ARE CO-AUTHORING!!! It's also slow as Christmas but we hope to being posting before too long at this blog and Syd already posted a hysterical poem about what's coming up. Heheheh. And no, "Strange House" with Jules is still on, it's just sloooooooooooow. We're talking MAYBE a chapter a month, although we have most of the plot banged out in our PMs back and forth. Another project I've taken up is called "Sundapple". I was wildly inspired for it the other night; it's a crack-novel about another writing group I'm a part of, and you can see chapter one at the main blog for this account [ http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/profiles/NaNoWriMoGroup/ ] Besides that, I have astounded myself in the extreme. Please brace yersel'. I've started a romance long-story. *watches the colour drain from their faces* Yeppers, issa rooomance. I've begun posting it at Inkstains, the blog which my name links to over there on your right. I'm calling it "Authoress". Just tonight it hit 5K, wahooey! Besides these things, I've been doing a lot of rantwriting, which issa term for random bursts of base WRITING with no real motive behind it. I've done a couple verra odd pieces and torture scenes fit to kill. I've also just finished a write-100-pages-of-script-in-April which was interesting and, happily, successful.

So that's what been going on. No wonder I don't get on chatzy that much. :-?

I have a question...do we need the mailing list? Not everyone can add themselves, and since no one is sending their entries out anyway, shouldn't we just discontinue it? And when you leave comments on other people's writing, please try to find something more to say than "I liked it!" While it's nice to have assurance that someone likes you writing, it's more helpful to know what someone actually thinks, ideas for improvement, comments about style, blah blah blah.

--Kip