Hello world!

[misterangel]

You're joking, right?

I typed a full post, then accidentally clicked the "Crossposting settings" link below the compose window. Instead of opening in a dialog, or a new tab, it goes to another page. And going back, it's lost everything I typed.

Very much not impressed.

OK, Thursday's progress, in summary this time: Making an attempt to talk to people again. Reinstalled Slowly now I have less pressing deadlines. Looked over some last minute responses from my proofreader/carer/housemate, and pressed the "this is final" tickbox on 14 out of the 52 stories going into Nightmare Season. Of which I think 7 are Nightmare Fuel stories from previous years.

Done some more writing in a new (to me) niche. I didn't know it existed until a few months ago. Like non-sexy porn, I guess. Wish fulfilment stories for a particular interest. So easy to write, and kind of fulfilling; so I'll have to see if I hit the mark well enough to sell copies.

2710 words total. Just over 63⅓k for the month. Not doing too bad.

Hoping that posting each day about my life and my thoughts will help me stay motivated. It did before, so that habit needs to be reforged.

Comments

[blissmorgan]

Your collection is going to be called Nightmare Season? I cannot begin to tell you how much that delights me. I'm glad to hear progress on it is going so well.

Non-sexy porn?! What is this mysterious niche you have discovered?

[misterangel]

I thought I already mentioned Nightmare Season. But then I've not been communicating so much this year; turning into an overstressed hermit again.

While I was doing them, I kept a count of where all the prompts that inspired these stories came from. Results were:

* Dechha: 1 story
* Lancashire and Cumbria Wrimos: 1 story
* Endless March: 1 story (day 20)
* Putting some site’s “word of the day” into image search: 5
* Written without a prompt: 11
* Nightmare Fuel 2014: 10 (days 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 14, 17, 19/18, 20, and 26)
* Nightmare Fuel 2015: 2 (days 16 and 19)
* Nightmare Fuel 2016: 7 (days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9)
* Nightmare Fuel 2017: 9 (days 0, 1, 2, 8, 10, 20, 22, 27, and 30)
* Nightmare Fuel 2018: 6 (days 2, 4, 6, 9, 13, and 15)

I thought the title seemed quite fitting :)

[blissmorgan]

Perhaps you had already mentioned it; I have had a tendency to sometimes forget things that otherwise should stick with me due to the volume of information I try to take in and store about the many Blisstopians.

::does some maths:: Oh wow. Nightmare Fuel inspired something like two thirds of your stories. No wonder the name! So fitting!