Well, it's official. I'm in love with the next chapter of "Walker's Path". Six pages in and I feel this is one of the more unique chapters I've written.
What happens? Well, Walk— Oh no you're not gonna get me with that one. You're just going to have to wait and see!
I admit that I haven't been working on Walker's Path for the last week or two. It's not because I don't care about the story. It's because my foot has been hurting me pretty bad making it hard to concentrate. I don't use meds for pain because I absolutely hate taking them.
I'm having a really hard time walking and will be getting crutches soon so I can be mobile.
I hate talking about this type of thing. I always feel like I'm looking for sympathy when I'm not.
I hope you're all doing well and are enjoying the latest Walker's Path.
When I first started this story I posted a blog about Walker's Path being an exclusive for BigCloset. I've been thinking about spreading the story to other platforms.
Walker's Path will likely always be posted here first but I want to expand the reader base.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this?
Let me know what you all think. I'll make my decision based on the feedback I receive.
It's that time again! The new chapter of Walker's Path is out!
This one was a bit tough to write because we are finally dealing with Walker's emotions. I ended up continuing from where I was going to cut the chapter off and I believe it was better for it.
I wanted to let you all know that I made some very minor changes to Walker's Path Chapter 4. I added a hairband, a makeup case and a little more flare to Walker's exit at the end.
There's something new out there with my name on it. Outkast's. This story is about Vic and his experience being Walker's best friend.
Now I don't know how often I will update this one but I have some plans for it. It's going to fill the gaps that Walker doesn't see. It'll give context to things that might need it.
Made a lot of headway last night. Wrote around 2k words for Walker's Path.
Generally, I write while I'm downstairs and lately I've been spending a lot of time upstairs. That is until we found a rat digging around in our pantry. My dad set out some poison and the rat ate it. It died in a wall somewhere near my room. So needless to say I'm not spending much time in my room anymore.
I'm both happy and sad. Sad because I am not spending as much time with my friends anymore and happy because I'm actually getting some writing done.
It's been a couple of weeks since I put up a chapter of "Walker's Path" and I wanted to apologize.
We've been having problems with my nephew that I don't really want to get into and I've been having problems getting the medical care that I need. Specifically some trans-related surgery.
I also have a lump on my right breast that has been steadily growing. I found it in October 2018 and got a biopsy in 2019 which showed that it was benign. I'm hoping for the same result and hoping that I can get it removed soon as well.
It was brought to my attention that the naming I was going for wasn't the best and I agree wholeheartedly. "Magnus and the Misfits" isn't a good name especially because it uses the main character's first name. He doesn't like his first name so I really don't want it in the title.
So, I've settled on a name. "Walker's Path"
I really like this name. It really showcases the direction I want to go with the story. I'm afraid that it might be a little too on the nose though.
So I ended up renaming the story I'm working on. It was Magnus Walker and the Misfits. I shortened it to Magnus and the Misfits. I'm still not 100% sure about the name of the story so I'm just trying things out. Promise not to change it around too much.
I posted a new episode which is mostly why I'm writing this post. I like to talk with you all is the other reason. I hope you enjoy it!
I'm in the process of revamping my "Off time" fan fiction.
Recently, I wrote aother prologue for my book "Adrian". I decided not to use it, so instead of it sitting around collecting dustbunnies I'm repurposing it for "Off Time".
Thanks everyone for your interest in this story. It's been a while since I've written anything for it but I sat down last week and advanced the story a bit.
I've been spending most of my time working on Adrianne (The second book to Adrian) and I've made some really great strides on it. I'm 40k words in!
I've pretty much re-branded myself as Katherine Phillips' Brain on all of my social media. It's fun because I started adding little daily memory slips. A memory of mine is presented and then I snap out of it mid memory. Then I apologize.
I've been interacting a lot on just about every social platform I can. I'm trying to amp up my presence.
I have an excerpt for you today! This is a story of mine that I converted from 3rd person to 1st person. I really liked this scene so I thought I would share it with you all.
Enjoy!
“Ready?” I asked.
“Three,” Andrew said.
“Two.”
“One!” and we launched the game together.
The box area I was in melted away and was replaced by a grassy field that stretched on for miles. In the distance there was a small hut with a fireplace puffing out little ringlets of smoke. The Scene was Gorgeous.
I hope all you readers and writer's week is going well.
To get right into it I joined in on this month's Camp NaNoWriMo. I set a goal of 10k words for the month. My main problem has been that I haven't really been writing like I used to.
Back when I was writing like every day. I was sending everything to a Trans Fiction website like BigCloset and using the feedback I was getting from them to help the story along. I found out that this sort of behavior is not something that publishers really appreciate so I stopped doing it.
So two weeks ago I got my stimulus check and was really excited to finally have the cash to be able to get my book edited.
I remembered that PayPal had a check cashing service that puts the money directly into your account. I'm excited so I log into the app click the cash check option, take pictures of my check, and select the free same-day option. <----(this comes in to play later)
About 20 minutes later the transaction comes back as declined.
How is everyone doing on this lovely morning? I'm doing pretty okay today, yesterday was pretty trash but I'm feeling a lot better today. Depression blows.
So I just released a new chapter of Rairy Contrary. I'm still not used to the formating here. So, for now, everything I post is going to look as is.
I've been having a really hard time writing mostly because of the pandemic. I've been really worried about my parent's wellbeing, have had to cancel Electrolysis appointments, and doing therapy on my phone is really weird.
I was able to harness these frustrated feelings and put them into this chapter.
I hope you're all keeping safe. I was looking for some opinions. I've been working with an English teacher and she has been going through my book "Adrian" and giving me suggestions. I feel that my book is looking a whole lot better. In this particular instance, I was hoping for an opinion from you all.
So I wrote this originally:
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12:07 Nov 24
It was pretty reassuring that both the boys and the girl's rooms had stalls. At least if someone came in I was covered.
I've been a bit more depressed lately than usual so I've been throwing most of my spare time into a mobile game. I generally only do that when it's really bad like don't want to participate in the real world bad.
Last year I was able to harness the depression and focus it all into writing and I'm having a hard time doing it again.
It's been a while since I've been here and I apologize for my absence.
I haven't really been writing all that often because I've been so busy learning all about film and how to make them. I've actually written and directed a couple of short films in the last few months. Surprisingly it's been a lot of hard work.
So I'm at it again and this time wanted some feedback. I've been experimenting with Showing like I talked about yesterday and wanted to run one of my experiments by you.
The scene is Adrian finishing up in the restroom. This scene also happens to be the scene I want as the cover of my book.
You wonderful people once again have helped me become a better writer.
When I posted the first draft of my book on here it was met with a lot of praise. I was so excited and happy. Then there were those of you who were critical and sent me PM's.
You must understand that I'm a person who likes criticism because it gives me something to improve on.
I got one critique, in particular, saying that the Prologue was boring. Another saying that the book wasn't as engaging as the 'Tuck' series.
As I write this story I feel so sad. I'm one of those writers that feel's/feed's off the emotions they are writing and reading. So if I read something extremely depressing I can get really depressed myself.
Rairy is not a reflection of myself, but there are parts of me in her. She is so much braver than I ever was.
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