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Calico Fiona sitting like a human Rethinking My Website
Musings · Writing

Rethinking My Website

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My friend Sheila gave me the title “Incomprable J9”. I love it! But it has confused people since it is a misspelling of incomparable, though it is the phonetic pronunciation. (Isn’t it odd that phonetic is not spelled fonetically?) Spelling… I’ve always struggled with it. Due to having dyslexia, most of my spelling acumen is due to memorization and paying attention to corrections when they are given. (Spell check has been my salvation on more than one occasion. Even when it gives me an incorrect suggestion, when I see it, I slow down and double check my spellings and meanings.) I am often a victim of homonyms, both homophones and homographs.

I have been dubbed chaotic on more than one occasion and by several different people. I embrace it. But is the state of confusion where I want to drive the visitors of this website? I must think on it some more.

Update
Fuck it, I just changed it to the "common" spelling.

Goals · Memoir · Writing

Goals for 2024

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It’s been a while, but I hope to use this blog to keep me on task this year. I’ve got several writing projects I want to do. Will I do them all? I hope. But it’s nice to have goals and a plan.

Memoir – My Swan Song for Joy:

  • By end of January: finish putting my Publication packet together & send memoir out to Publishers who accept direct submissions
  • If no takers, send out to Agents
  • If no takers, begin preparing to self-publish by the end of October

Short Stories:

  • Jan.-Feb. – go thru old stories and polish & work on new story for an anthology that’s due Feb. 29 
  • March-Dec. – send out ALL THE STORIES (or what I can)
  • June-Oct. – begin new stories while researching different anthologies and short story publishers
  • Nov.-Dec. – break

Novels:

  • Jan.-Feb. – Go through what I’ve got and see what needs work, set aside, or trashed
  • March-May – Work on the “needs work”
  • June-Aug. – Polish novel(s) & research publications / agents 
  • Sept.-Oct. – Send out novel(s)
  • Nov. – Nanowrimo
  • Dec. – Break

Fantasy/SciFi Videos (TikTok / Youtube) – Greetings from the Liminal Opulent Library:

  • Jan. – Research and write a “business” plan; set up schedule; write more scripts
  • Feb.-March – Begin recording weekly; continue writing scripts
  • June – Analyse how things are going, what can be done better, etc.
  • June-Oct. – continue writing and recording 
  • Nov.-Dec. – Break

Memoir Podcast – Fuzzy Geography:

  • Jan. – Research and write a “business” plan
  • Feb. – Write scripts
  • March-May – Begin recording weekly using the recording studio at the library; continue writing scripts
  • June – Analyse how things are going, what can be done better, etc.
  • June-Oct. – continue writing and recording 
  • Nov.-Dec. – Break