InvidiaRed

In my experience, making good money is a matter of finding the right opportunities, and writing is a matter of making time.

You can always make time if you try hard enough, but you can't always find the right opportunities when you need them.

I wish you the best of luck.

Excellent! 

That’s some bullshit. You deserve better. 💜

Gave the ol 2 weeks.😅

Throw up a windmill and harness the power! 

What winds of change??

I wish the winds of change would arrive here, because these current ones are hot and humid, and I’d like them to fuck off now, please.

Argh, pressure!  

Maybe that’s the kick in the pants my muse needs.

AAAAAAAAGH!

Ok, I waited, and since I didn’t see any announcement I didn’t do any more writing on Meaningful Gifts.  I figured we were all just waiting for next year.

I’m really sorry.  If you want to do one this year with @BronxWench, IR and @GeorgeGlass, I’ll post reviews of all the stories, but if you all wish to skip this year and return for AFF Winter Holiday 2025, I’ll be there for sure.

@InBrightestDay God help us, we’re going ahead with it.

https://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600110499

Yeah, I’m fine the back of the car is gone and the truck and the idiot responsible fled onto the reservation. So that’s gonna be fun.

Granny is fine, apparently directly in the ER under experienced medical supervision and veteran doctors and nurses is the best place to have a stroke who knew? Lol.

Ouch and yikes, life seems to strike 

Wow, that’s a lot. Indeed, the ER is the best place to have a stroke, ‘cause they can give you those clot-busting drugs right away. Glad she’s doing well.

ACK!  Run, hide. 

I’m guessing everybody’s using the same generic open-source-art & slapping their title/name over top of it?

I think @Desiderius Price has the right of it. I was lucky enough to have a publisher who didn’t rely on basic open-source art or awkward renders, and the cover artist did an amazing job for me. After all, the cover is what catches the eye right away, and makes you want to pick up a book and read the blurb...

Hi, all.

Just an opinion from someone who can observe human behavior and isn’t in the business.

Sometimes, the publisher is “mailing it in on the cheap,” like @Desiderius Price has pointed out.  In other cases, they might be trying for something that was far more eye-catching in their minds than it is on the actual dust jacket or paperback binder.

In a rare few cases, the author themselves might be at least partly to blame.  A “new author” won’t have a lot of leverage to use against whatever the printer calls their “dust jacket department,” so they’ll get what they get and give thanks that they’re getting paid instead of printing through a “vanity house” and having to sell their books out of the trunk of their car for the next twenty years to get their money back. 

A “proven winner,” on the other hand, has a lot more leverage on what their dust jackets will look like, even for reprints of their initial best-sellers.  Some authors make good use of this leverage.  For others, they sell their books because of the story inside, in spite of the weak-sauce dust jacket or paperback cover.

Rain in Arizona… who’s been praying to the rain gods? 

I live just outside of Pheonix, I went for a walk to one of the fast food places, when the wind had just started.

Ten minutes later I was having lunch, watching the rain and wondering how I'd get home, without getting wet.

Luckily it didn't last long. 

When I had lived in So Cal, took a year and a half to realize there was a leak in my apartment roof (simply because it hadn’t rained for so long)

Thank you ❤️

You’re very welcome! It can get a bit complicated, because you need to decide if you want content editing, or just cleaning up grammar and such. Feel free to pick my brain!  

Lol, just need to bounce ideas off someone.

Kinda have to rewrite a bit cause I want to add more scifi elements to this dark fantasy ahaha!

Dragons are fun, and easy to fast-BBQ anything! 

Was “the message” an actual message sent by the two ex-employees that was in extraordinarily poor taste?  Or do you just work for a “high-quality” employer sending a message that they’re “high-quality?”

I work in an industry where the college life hasn’t been rubbed off by the real world yet.

Okay…  So, with the headlines, I’m guessing the little twerps got involved in the “River to the Sea” Blood-Libel, and someone in management really didn’t want to go there.  Oh, well…

Good luck getting and training the replacements.

🧙‍♀️ 👻

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Saw this a while back, and absolutely love it.  It’s proof that you can make feathered dinosaurs menacing, so long as you use the right presentation.

Grand Canyon eh?  Should fit a bunch of bodies in time for Halloween. 

Don’t forget Winona.  And here’s a link for “six degrees of separation” with a degree or two left out.

“Bonus Points” if you can list the degrees I’ve left out.  Cheers!

Reaction to manager’s response… hope you’re able to either keep your job or find a good replacement.

Which is exactly why I follow the sage advice of my father: “Never shit where you eat.”   

And I’m rushing to see if I can reach 100k for the month before then!

Please don’t remind me – I don’t like colder weather.  But, that’s also astronomical  autumn.  Meteorological autumn started at the first of the month.

Cheers!

Peter Pan syndrome, never wanting to grow up?  I sympathize… can I get a do over, reset my biological clock to 18?

An empty mind is a dangerous thing!  😈