Plot Bunnies...

Plot Bunnies is a term I learned when I did NaNo last year. (I skipped NaNo this year, I wasn't back to my full MoJo yet.)

A plot bunny is when your story suddenly gets away from you. And wrangling it back into place can take some work.

Yesterday I was all plotted out. It was going to be a nice, low-key, transitional scene. I was going to (finally) throw in some flashbacks on my Hero so that my reader (yes, I'm looking at you Lee) could understand more of my Hero's motivations.

And then...

LOL...

So... now I have about a thousand words worth of butt sex and I spent the next two thousand words trying to wrangle that plot bunny back into total submission.

*face palm*

Go me.

Life Events and Other Awesome...

I'm not sure how much of this I can really go into... let's just say that something wonderful has happened.

I'm still in recovery... but I feel a lot less broken these days.

I don't know if I'll ever be 100% ready do go back out into the big bad world, but with other things that have advanced, I might not need to.

I started writing again... for reals.

And, I'm going back to school to do whatever it takes to improve my craft.

Thank you to my friends who've given me their unwavering support during my darkness.

Thank you to the Beloved One for staying by my side.

Thank you to the healers who have helped me get back to a better place.

Witch Born - original artwork by Eve Ventrue

Where the hell is my Ariste implant?! (i.e. struggling with identity)

In a fictional verse of wonder, written by Walter Jon Williams, people with multiple identities have one hell of an advantage.  A wetware implant that allows each voice to operate independently.  Each individual personality can be assigned to his or her own project, and the overall result is that one physical body's worth of a person can multi-task like a son of a bitch.  Aristoi

I've been trying really hard to let each of my projects flourish under the same level of care and attention, and the result I got was overworking myself into major meltdown space.

*sigh*

The experts have told me that I need to just focus on one thing at a time.

It's a struggle, but I see what they mean.

For the month of July and probably a good portion of August, I will be letting my Amanda Harris voice come to the foreground.  Amanda writes psychological horror and is participating in the 2015 Camp NaNoWriMo.

During the month of August I will be working on getting Amanda's work published.

September I will return to my anti-bully campaign, The Bronykin Alliance.

October, November & December I will be back with Amanda for NaNoWriMo2015

Past that... I'm not really sure... I have other voices that need attention.

If you need to reach me, my email is companion.anne@gmail.com

Projects Still On Hold

No worries, it's for a good reason this time.

I finally have a computer and I LURVE him!  His name is Victor (based on the character played by Enver Gjokaj in Dollhouse.)

HOWEVER!!!

I JUST got over my writers block that's been killing me for years... so I'm participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).  

I'm going to be doing this under my pen name, Amanda Harris:

Email:  3utcherbird@gmail.com

Blog:  http://azrialgalleries.blogspot.com/

Twitter:  @Azria1Galleries

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/angelshrike

So feel free to pop over and give her the follows and lurves.