What's Up Wednesdays

[jana_denardo]

What’s Up Wednesdays is a blog hop hosted weekly by Jamie Morrow and Erin Funk to help authors network. You can find the rest of the WUW blog hop here


WHAT I'M READING I just finished reading Appointment at the Edge of Forever which I've been given for review. It's SF and it was pretty good. It blends some magic realism into the SF and I would have liked more character development but it was fairly enjoyable.
Until Death Do Us Part #1 a near-future tech manga that had absolutely beautiful art. Loved it. I don’t usually like overly violent manga but this balance beating up the bad guys with a decent storyline. The main characters are a young girl who can see the future and a blind warrior aided by super-tech.

WHAT I'M WRITING (+ ONE WRITING GOAL) *
I met my goal of working on chapter 4 of Blood Red Roulette. I fixed the entire beginning so hopefully I can move on from there. I wrote more last week than I did all January.
I failed in my goal to work in the steampunk/mystery.
My goal for next week is to work more on Blood Red Roulette. I need to work on chapter five which pretty much means a complete rewrite again. And I flip-flopped on working on A Wolf in the Fold, a short story I’m trying to salvage. I have more time than I thought so it might be worth it after all.



WHAT WORKS FOR ME Finding someone who is further along in the business and following their blog. I often find a lot of very useful stuff that way, from open calls, how to handle mid-story bloat, advice on ignoring the Amazon/Goodreads trolls etc. Terrible Minds is one such blog. Yes it’s very NSFW but I get a lot out of it.

I also found the Writer Recharge through this and that link is my first week results.

WHAT ELSE IS NEW
That critter is still making huge fiberglass nests in the heating ducts. The landlord is unmoved by the fact that fiberglass is being shot all over the damn place in my apartment. And well, you know it’s been SO bad here, I’m not going further with ‘what’s new’ until I have something that isn’t gut wrenching. Maybe next week will be better.