Found An Awesome New Generator!

I am an avid fan of generators, whether for naming characters, cities, worlds, or even [fictional] drugs. The latter, however, is much harder to come across as I've discovered. At least in my experience. So for those of you trying to find a name for that drug to cure that fictional disease you've created, here's one of the greatest fake-drug generators I've come across.

(please note I do not own any rights to the link below)

The Wordlab Drug-O-Matic Name Generator

I will keep this link here, but eventually I will also add it to the fav. links list located at the bottom of this blog.

Happy writing and happy generating 🙌

"Entwined Fates" Update

Looking back at my There's Faith Again  post, I saw something that made me chuckle--I wrote originally that I only had 10 chapters to go. Well let me just say, that was back before I did some serious re-writing, and by that I mean I almost completely turned the book on its head. I kept true to some of the stuff I had already written, but the majority of what was there originally has become absolutely unusable now. But I'm okay with that, because what I'm working with now--and what I've been working with since then--has been so much easier to write, and the ideas are flowing better, and the content is even be better too. Though I can't truly speak to that last part as I am entirely biased.

That's not to say I don't still have my doubts here and there, but I'm shoving those aside to just focus on getting the writing done by thinking about the positive aspects that have come with this novel's revamp.

Anyhow, just wanted to let ya'll know that I am not anywhere near done with the series' first book. And what was originally the first book--and is now going to be the second--now has to be majorly edited due to errors in the plot created by this first book, but fortunately those will be pretty easy to sort out. So at least I have a mostly-written second book that I get to work on once I'm done with book one 👍💗🖋

Happy Almost-End of October 🎃

I've been on a writing hiatus for too long now, and not just from my blog but from all writing.

Before I get to that, however, I should explain my lack of absence from my blog. Following my last post back in August, I got on a serious writing kick and was so heavily involved with my Entwined Fates series I barely came up for air. And by barely I mean I don't think I did anything at all from August through September. Even for my dad's birthday which came just a few days after that last post, we were at a winery during which I got a slew of ideas and began writing on my phone. Then October hit.

I wasn't sleeping more than an hour or two at most for almost the entire first half of the month, and then I was sleeping all the time. Finally starting yesterday I had sudden energy. I wasn't just able to do my physical therapy to nearly-full strength, but I was also able to go home and clean for two-and-a-half hours. Which was crazy considering up until then I wasn't even barely able to get up long enough to just feed myself food from a frigging microwave. Then last night I didn't sleep much at all and had to spend most of the afternoon recovering (and by recovering I mean sleeping), but when I woke up (embarrassingly at 1:40ish p.m.) I felt refreshed and recharged. A feeling that's not only rare for me to come by, but also not something I haven't felt since the beginning of the month. Now I'm working on my book again, it's going great, and I'm writing on my blog all from a local Starbucks. Granted I'm keeping close to home just in case, I'm in true walking distance from my house where I'm at (though I'm driving considering I doubt my body would handle up well walking in a true-fatigued state. That's never worked out well for me, and I've tried).

Anyhow, that's been my journey as of late. I'm just hoping one of these days I'll be able to write about something other than my health again, though I think it's an incredibly important part of my life to document so that other writers who have health issues might relate and know they aren't alone. It's a struggle we all share, even if that struggle manifests in different ways.

On that note:
In case I don't write again for awhile, have a happy Halloween/Samhain!