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Time Warp

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

It is amazing how time can just fly when you’re swamped with work and things that need to get done. I swear I’ve blinked and it’s August already, I’m not even sure what happened to July. I know we had crappy weather, and I was sick for a good portion of it, but really where the hell did it go?!

In the long run, I did accomplish a few things. I managed to get my RP site started, with my whole two members. LOL. www.sswars.com/forums which of course is hosted off of my book’s website. I think it was appropriate considering the book is based on a group of RPs that were run back in the nineties and some of the new millenium. (God I’m old). The book itself is also back! http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/secret-service-wars-of-secrets-and-shadows/7473327 Hella long link for a book to be listed on but of course you can just click it. I say back because this is the second edition of my novel. It’s longer and better, because it had an editor of course….lol.

Most of my time was absorbed with editing the book and getting it all ready to go though I’ve been working on getting other things done, not much has gotten done.  I’m working as steadily as I can on a new novel, the second part of my series, and I’ve not even finished chapter one. Starting the book is always the worst I find. I’d like to have it done by the end of the year, beginning of next year, but really that’s a pipe dream.

I’m finding myself thinking a lot lately, in the shower, before I go to sleep, on the bus and a lot of the time this friend or rather former friend of mine comes to mind. I use to joke with her telling her she was the best friend because no matter how hard I pushed she didn’t leave. Yet since she’s left I’ve felt a lot of different emotions and more recently I’ve felt a lot of anger towards her. Now though when I’m calmer and less upset over the whole situation I can’t help but laugh. She was my best friend, when the times were good. At least good for me. When my life got rocky when I felt weaker and desperate, she walked away. Three months of “I’m thinking…” and I’m done waiting for the results of this thought.

I wish her the best. Now and in the future. Yet standing on the edge of a cliff with not bridge to the other side is pointless. I’m going for a walk, away from the cliff and I’m going to see where life takes me. It’s obvious by this point she doesn’t want me on that side. Because if she did she would have only had to ask.

Anyway, I best get back to work, break is over and there’s still a lot to be done.

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Love.Live.Life.

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

We have to love life, we have to live life, if we don’t… well then why are we here?

This is just a short post, one that says I’ve been sleeping a lot better lately. I’ve been living a lot better lately and that I hope to continue to do so over the next little while.

Novel Progress!

Re-Write Progress: Two chapters left, one Epilogue, one authors note and maybe a foreward written by a friend.
Editing progress: Chapter sixteen complete… new chapters being printed to be forwarded to the editor.

Fingers crossed, there’s an end in sight!

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Heat and Writing

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Wow. Really when I start this that’s all that comes to mind. Wow. I’m exhausted, and it’s not from activity but rather from the heat. I was outside for a few hours in the twenty-nine celcius weather and I’m sensitive to the sun. It killlled me. I thought I could pass out when I was on the bus ride home.

I’m not typically a patio person but I enjoyed sitting out on the patio with my friends talking about my book. The friend that is doing the editing for me spent a lot of time with me going over the changes she made and I’ll have to add them into the book tomorrow (I forgot my jump drive at work) and then get more of the editing done.

Needless to say sitting out in the sun with a single drink wanting nothing more than to just sleep and trying to discuss technicalities of my writing is exhausting. I want to sleeeeep.

Honestly even as I write this, I can’t think straight on it. I have nothing inspirational or witty just the desire to crawl into bed, close my eyes and not move for the next eight to ten hours. Which is possible to happening in a few moments.

So excuse me for nothing special today but I’m gonna leave you with love and knowledge that I’m alive and working hard. I never knew writing a novel would be so hard, but I’m working on it.

-Sheyna Plamondon

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Cleaning Day

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Today is cleaning day, kind of like a bit of spring cleaning, though I think Spring cleaning is something that will need to be done eventually right now this is only kind of like spring cleaning.

I’m going to be working on a few things around the apartment and with my writing today so it’ll be a busy day. The main thing to work on is making sure my room is nice and bright and clean again so that I can work in it for the next little while… there’s a lot to get done and I’m not doing it at the current rate I seem to be in.  I think it might be part of the blah or funk I’ve been in. Who knows.

My posts seem to get shorter. There’s just nothing really thoughtful or really inspirational to write, there’s nothing really happening other than a little cleaning and a whole lot of writing. I have a book to finish a re-write on and an editor that’s waiting on me. Mind you this editor who is a friend of mine is the most wonderful person I know. I have to thank her greatly because she never asked me for anything, she never expected anything or thought what might be in it for her and she is adhering beautifully to my deadline of the end of this month.

I couldn’t ask for a better friend than I have with her. ^_^; Thanks Kirsten if you read this <3 I really do appreciate your help and dedication.

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Optimism isn’t my Best Skill

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Speaking as a person who tries hard to be as ‘Realistic’ as I possibly can, a part of the new journey is working to become a little more optimistic in regards to what is and what isn’t possible.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I love to write. I would, if I could, write as a full time career. However, I have this pessimistic view that I call ‘realistic’ that my writing is not only not good enough but borders on the line of just plain ‘bad’. For years I built up this belief that in order to be a writer you had to have near to absolutely perfect grammar, but I suppose I forgot a key fact… that’s what editors are for. (Mind you google the price of an editor… wow did I ever get into the wrong profession.)

Now as I work on my movement forward I’ve been spending a bit more time looking at the different ideas that I have saved about my laptop and desktop and wondering if maybe it’s possible. Despite encouragement from everyone around me I’ve constantly put myself down and forgot to use a little bit of an optimistic touch. I can accept the facts that my grammar and sometimes my linguistic abilities are not top notch and I can accept that there are times where I forget where I need to put a little more and take out a little bit. Yet all of this is possible to be fixed with a good editor. The key for the writer is to put into words a good story and let the rest fall into the hands of good friends and help.

My first project is and well, will continue to be Secret Service Wars which is a series that has been carried with me since I was a young child. The story is something I’m truly in love with. Though I’m not sure if it’s the actual story or the love story that falls along with it that’s  my favorite part. The only issue I have is that at times, this story is one that hits into my heart and mind as it has seen and been a part of many of friendships over my days and out of all of the friends only one is still around and recently I’m not even sure what is happening with that one.

Everything doesn’t always work out the way we want it too, but I think with a little optimism and a little bit of luck I might find my way through this and move from aspiring author to full time author. So with my fingers crossed I’ll focus less on what could have been and focus more on what can be. With or without those who helped build the story, I will finish it, because it’s something I love and I think the story will entertain others greatly!

-Sheyna Plamondon

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