GRADES!!!

I finally got some feedback from the professor on my research project, and I am THRILLED!!!

Copyrights

I searched the Copyright Office database tonight, and "The Cover" is finally registered. Interestingly enough, the official date of registration is before any of the others. I have no clue whatsoever as to why it has taken so long.

So, now, only "Relax" has to clear.

WHOA!!!

Just got off the phone with the court clerk, who said that the judgment was PAID IN FULL and as soon as the check clears, the court will mail a check for the full amount!!!

I AM SO HAPPY!!!

I seriously never thought that they would pay!!!

Then Again, Maybe Not...

Due to some new information, I guess I won't be taking the teaching job. Le sigh. I really wanted to; it just wasn't going to work, though. Not with my schedule and other committments.

Been Extremely Busy

In the last month:

I built an eCommerce site from scratch, took some fraudsters to court (and WON!!!), worked out the kids' curriculum, started the second semester of classes for my Master's degree, and got three new web design clients.

On Thursday, I am leaving for a vacation.

Today, I got hired to teach college-level English, which is pretty darned cool.

Work Crap

I am working on a dynamic shopping cart tonight. This means that I had to set up a testing server on my computer. That was a pain in the ass. I had to install WAMP so that I had access to Apache, MySQL, and PHP servers locally. After about 3 hours of screwing with it, I finally got it running about two hours ago, and installed everything into the template. I started scanning pictures and uploading products to the store. Boring, boring, boring work.

Another 1,000 Words...

Yup. I hadn't written a word in Devil's Handiwork since the 30th. I got busy with some other stuff. But I wrote for an hour tonight and cranked out another 1,000 words, bringing my total to just over 58,000 words.

Word Count Check-In

Tonight I cracked 57,000 words in Devil's Handiwork. In fact, to be precise, it's 57,323. Yay!!

50,000!!!

I just cracked 50,000 words total!!!

Okay, well, for the month of July, it's actually 42,914 words, but total, like everything I have ever written for the book... it's 50,000!!!!

Yay!!!

Wordage

I hit 47,908 words today - total - for my book, bringing my July total to 40,426. I am in Chapter 13... no pun intended. Only a bit more to go to finish up the story, and I can start the editing process. Yeehaw.

Today, I went shopping up at Wal*Mart and bought two awesome couch pillows in faux suede. They are burgundy and match my curtains in the livingroom. I also made banana bread today.

Sleepy...

I got a commission to do a web site. I'm getting $700!! Yay!

I stayed up from 1:30PM Tuesday to 10:30PM Wednesday. Man, was I tired. I slept like 12 hours Wednesday night. Why did I stay up? Because for two months, we've had an appointment to get the electricity worked on, and Wednesday, they were supposed to be here between 7 and 8 in the morning. I'd been writing until 5:30AM, so I decided to stay up. And I was kinda pissed that I didn't have to. I could have slept, if those buttwipes had bothered to call to say they weren't coming. They didn't show up Thursday, either.

At any rate, I suppose I ought to do some writing in my book.

Word Count Update!

Because I know you are all hanging on the edge of your seats for my word count posts: I hit just over 38,000 words for the month of July as of about 15 minutes ago. Yay, me! That means I have almost 46,000 when you add in my previous material. It looks like I might actually get this thing done!

I have also noticed that I have a weird habit when it comes to writing. I have to write on my laptop. I will not write if I am at my desktop. I will read or I will work on graphics or web stuff, but I won't write. It is so weird. /randomness

Puzzle, Finished!

I finally got the crossword puzzle finished. BTW - I just found out that the "snooty" term for a crossword puzzle compiler is a cruciverbalist.

A guy I did a web site for needs me to make him a form. Maybe I can catch up on my writing after that....

Ooh, wow!

I got a job writing crossword puzzles for a Mexican Expat magazine out of Boulder, Colorado!! There's something I haven't done in a while....

I'm Such a Slacker

I only wrote 1,500 or so words tonight. I am such a slacker.

On the bright side, that brings me up to just over 30,000 words total. Getting there.

And, as it turns out, I am only following my outline in a very general way. And some of the things that are coming out of that are just HILARIOUS. Like slipping RFID chips into plumber's butt at a truck stop. HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Yet Another Writing Update

Tonight, I cracked 29,000 words in Devil's Handiwork. I wrote 2,025 words from 1AM to now; I wrote 1,701 words yesterday; and 1,064 words the day before. It brings my total for July to 21,812 words, and, adding in my previously-existing material, a total of 29,294 words. Lots of writing.

Stupid Things

The Van Morrison thing has more implications than I originally thought. It turns out that Van Morrison and "his people" are only having videos deleted if they were taken at paying gigs. Which, as per my original argument - that the bars pay the licensing companies so the songwriters get paid - makes this argument even weaker. More suspicious? Mr. Morrison has a "retrospective" album collection coming out later this year or early next year through Polydor records, which is owned by the Universal Music Group. For more than a year now, Universal Music Group has had an agreement with Google/YouTube to allow YouTube users to use music owned by Universal Music Group in user-created content on YouTube. And then they start ripping down videos that were taken at shows where the songwriter got paid?!?!?! that is ridiculous, and it will not - as they have asserted - increase sales of Mr. Morrison's forthcoming "retrospective" collection; it will cause people to boycott Mr. Morrison (I know I will. I had a Van Morrison record on my Amazon wish list for a while now, but I will delete that, and my "Brown Eyed Girl" ringtone is gone, too). When cover bands stop playing your music and people stop putting up videos of themselves playing your music, people will not be reminded of you or your music and will not buy your stuff.

I Feel Like I'm Being Lazy...

...but I guess I'm not.

I wrote 2,162 words in Devil's Handiwork last night, bringing my nine-day total to 17,022 words, and the total word count for the book to 24,504. I am very nearly half way to meeting the JulNoWriMo goal of 50,000 words for the month of July, but, more importantly, I think I might actually be able to finish this project before August! ::happy dance::

My Day

Tonight, I wrote 3,338 words (from 1AM to 4AM this morning, actually), adding to the 11,552 words from the previous week. I might actually be able to do this! The total for the book is now at 22,342, accounting for the 7,000 or so words I had prior to starting JulNoWriMo. I'm excited and really proud of myself. Right now, a lot fo the writing is very bland: "I did this and then I did that" kind of stuff, but I can flesh it out later. Right now, I just need to get the story down. :)

Another Writing Update

I am up to just over 18,000 words for the total of Devil's Handiwork as of 4 AM this morning. I have written about 11,000 words in the past 6 days. To be perfectly honest, I think that most of what I am writing now will eventually actually be readable after I spend August getting it critiqued, re-writing, editing, adding stuff. I really want this done before school starts.

I keep putting little details in that I might be able to use later. Like the dead body in Chapter Three. Or the supposedly condemned house that is perfectly fine in Chapter Six. What could those be used for? Who knows?!?! That's the BEAUTY of it!!!