Note from Gary
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therealljidolHeya folks! Happy Halloween/Happy New Year to those of you celebrating Samhain! ;)
I just wanted to poke my head in, say hello, and find out what you are working on at the moment. So, what is it?
There are more “Work Shops” on the way, and it should be clear that the final Idol season will not be starting in October! : )
But it will be coming!
I just thought that we could all use a break in between seasons. At the very least, I clearly needed one! The hope is that the final season will be the best season, and I’m using the time to tweak a few things. What I have so far is pretty exciting, at least from this end, I hope that once it meets you, that will be translate into something amazing for you as well!
The Idol Store is open for all of your pre-Christmas shopping needs. Just click the link on the sidebar! (and keep letting me know as your projects are published, so that I can add them!)
We are also still accepting donations to help pay for the internet that will make Season 9 possible! Again, there are donation buttons on the sidebar and on the front page!
Since we are discussing what writing folks are up to these days - If you feel like making with the clickies, you can go to http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/1655540/gary_dreslinski.html and click on some of the links there to the Survivor episode recaps/cast analysis pieces that I have been doing!
Thank you for your patience and continued support!
I just wanted to poke my head in, say hello, and find out what you are working on at the moment. So, what is it?
There are more “Work Shops” on the way, and it should be clear that the final Idol season will not be starting in October! : )
But it will be coming!
I just thought that we could all use a break in between seasons. At the very least, I clearly needed one! The hope is that the final season will be the best season, and I’m using the time to tweak a few things. What I have so far is pretty exciting, at least from this end, I hope that once it meets you, that will be translate into something amazing for you as well!
The Idol Store is open for all of your pre-Christmas shopping needs. Just click the link on the sidebar! (and keep letting me know as your projects are published, so that I can add them!)
We are also still accepting donations to help pay for the internet that will make Season 9 possible! Again, there are donation buttons on the sidebar and on the front page!
Since we are discussing what writing folks are up to these days - If you feel like making with the clickies, you can go to http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/1655540/gary_dreslinski.html and click on some of the links there to the Survivor episode recaps/cast analysis pieces that I have been doing!
Thank you for your patience and continued support!
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Date: 2012-10-31 06:11 pm (UTC)I've been writing my butt off since Idol ended. Maaaaaybe about halfway through making a book based on the Cliffton stories I started writing during Idol. The stories are, um, different now from how they were during Idol. But apparently I'm still writing them. A lot of them. Hahaha.
Miss y'all! Hoping I will get this book ready for beta and edits by the end of November. That's my fake!NaNo project. Wish me luck.
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Date: 2012-10-31 06:21 pm (UTC)Of course, my actual NaNoWriMo goal is 90k and not 70k but we'll see if that book will actually be that long. ;) I have the most direction with all of my books so I want to finally finish it and save the editing process for later. :D
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Date: 2012-10-31 06:22 pm (UTC)I hope all are well. Life here is good. We survived the superstorm without a scratch. I got 2 days off from work which was a plus!
See everyone soon!
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Date: 2012-10-31 06:24 pm (UTC)Since becoming unemployed a few weeks ago, I have focused a lot on writing. I have a few super seekrit projects in the works that I can't discuss too much and likely they are going to be under a pen name anyway, soooo....
I have a few other items in my head that will be more public. I will be playing NaNo and would like to turn that into something publishable. I am entering a few contests here and there, plan to do more. I am expanding a few Idol ideas into novels or contest entries as well.
Most of my new writing at the moment falls into the super seekrit category though. It's something I will be paid for and since I need income, it's been the focus as of lately.
Right now, I'm not thinking of myself as unemployed, just as someone switching careers and focusing on trying to make writing be more than a hobby. Maybe find ways to make it pay some bills!
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Date: 2012-10-31 06:28 pm (UTC)I'm doing NaNo, and it should be both awesome and ridiculous. My idea started as a smutty short story that grew into a longer (still smutty!) short story I plan to submit to an anthology after edits. Then it grew into my (still smutty!) NaNo idea, insisting to me that it be my NaNo novel over older, more-established ideas. It was weird; the idea just took over my brain and grew way beyond its origins. Let's hope the compulsion I felt to write it means I can win NaNo with it. :)
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Date: 2012-10-31 06:55 pm (UTC)I've done a pretty good job of continuing writing after Idol, except for the past couple of weeks, but I consider that a necessary pre-nano break.
I'll be working on a murder mystery called "Ruby's Girl." (Elsie Brown Morgan is surprised to inherit a house and several acres of land from her late mother's lesbian partner, especially since she hasn't seen or heard from her mother in thirty years. She's even more surprised a few weeks after moving in to find a dead stranger in her new home.)
I have a couple other book ideas in my head, though, and I won't be surprised if one of them breaks through and demands to be written before the end of the month.
All this, and I almost have to finish early, because the new Harry Dresden book is released November 27, and I must. read. it. now!
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Date: 2012-10-31 06:58 pm (UTC)Reading the comments now, I'm feeling a bit intimidated. It's been years since I wrote, and completed something. I used to love writing and had visions of writing novels. Yeah, I lack a bit of discipline, and talent, but I'm going to try. I am looking forward to read all the amazing entries.
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Date: 2012-10-31 07:32 pm (UTC)Don't feel intimidated! We're all a bunch of normal people living normal lives and trying to get some writing done while we can. :) I can relate to not having finished something -- I'm a chronic rewriter and will rewrite things over and over again. I really need to stop doing that. xD
And don't say you lack talent. ;) I'm looking forward to seeing the work you bring to the table when season 9 starts. :)
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