BORING GROWS TIRED OF THESE HACK WRITERS

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

56 mins
Irritated!!! Formatting is irritating. I need to find a better program for formatting than Open Office, but everything cost so much and Open Office was free. Then reading through posts in a group I'm in for writers and sometimes I wonder why they are even writers. There are search engines for a reason. I understand some of the question might be easier to just ask in the group, but to as about names constantly. Asking everyone in the group to help name a character, even from a particular decade, you can google that. Just freaking google popular names in whatever year you are looking for. Is it really that hard? I didn't think so when I did for all of my characters. Now I could see them asking if the name sounds right for the particular type of character, but to ask everyone to give names who would just be looking it up on google for them. Do your own work people!!!!! Only thing I would ever ask of someone is to beta read. I just don't know who I would trust with something like that though. Meaning more than those who I already have doing it.

This must be because she is going PRO.

17 hrs

Well, chapter 1 is edited. I have almost doubled the pages and word count of what it was before. Not the original word count before I changed things, that is actually chapter 2 now. That is what i will work on tomorrow. Actually I may type up the revised prologue that i have done yet. I think if I could work my nerves up to it I would find some lit agents in the genre I write to send this version off to, but I'm too afraid of rejection to that. Oh and inpatient. i hate waiting. Now I think I will be off to bed. Good night!

23 hrs
Thinking I found the place to do my book covers! Maybe. Looking through the different companies that are under the platform I'm in now. There are so many, but I like the prices and hoping that whatever I choose does a wonderful job at representing what my books are about. Fingers crossed, because these companies are more in my price range at the moment!

Apparently, she's forgotten about the time Amazon told her that no one's going to pay $2.99 for her books.

[Eagles]

Jan 29, 2015 16:35:56 GMT -5 Ohhmm(bligo) said:

Well, chapter 1 is edited. I have almost doubled the pages and word count of what it was before. Not the original word count before I changed things, that is actually chapter 2 now. That is what i will work on tomorrow. Actually I may type up the revised prologue that i have done yet. I think if I could work my nerves up to it I would find some lit agents in the genre I write to send this version off to, but I'm too afraid of rejection to that. Oh and inpatient. i hate waiting. Now I think I will be off to bed. Good night!

Freudian slip, Boring.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

There were SO MANY MORE posts about the edits to her prologue that I didn't include.

[05heel]

Lol that her editing consisted of doubling both page and word count.

[killercupcake]

Jan 29, 2015 16:46:07 GMT -5 05heel said:

Lol that her editing consisted of doubling both page and word count.

Quantity, not quality! 

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Just now
I think I should put the writing on hold for a few hours so I can make dinner. I'm starving, as I sit here and realize the only thing I have had to eat today is Quakers Popped Rice Crisps. Oops! Need to do some dishes too. Another oops. I'm a bit behind on stuff. Well, that's an understatement, but oh well.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Jan 29, 2015 16:46:07 GMT -5 05heel said:

Lol that her editing consisted of doubling both page and word count.

She hears your concern:

6 hrs
You would think the prologue was edited and revised that I would be done adding stuff to it. Nope not a chance. Also moved some the prologue to be the beginning of chapter 1. That will now make that chapter another 2 pages longer than it was before. Maybe even back to original word count of the original chapter 1 (now chapter 2) before revising it.

3 hrs
Only took me two hours but the prologue is done. It makes me sad. Not because it is finished, hopefully for the last time, but because of how it ends. I swear each time I look at this book it tears me heart apart. The second makes me angry and the third is a mix of happy, sad, anger. At least it is to me. Definitely a better title for my books than before. Only took 2 years to get the right ones for them! lol! Soon off to get the girls from school. Late I have to add the rest of the revised prologue to chapter one. Where it should have been to begin with. Then I can finally get more chapters done!

...nope, that's still not all of her stati about revising her prologue she's made in the last day.

[bittybomb]

L O fucking L that naming characters is WORK!

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Jan 29, 2015 16:55:30 GMT -5 bittybomb said:

L O fucking L that naming characters is WORK!

If only these people had read her Author Blog, where she recommends baby naming books.

[cuddlyevil]

She's forgetting letters and using words incorrectly. It's making my head hurt.

[elleblue]

"It tears me heart out"

Lemme guess, she's writing a pirate themed romance.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Jan 29, 2015 16:59:31 GMT -5 RexManningDay said:

Ohhmm(bligo), may I share a snippet of her published work? So that everyone can see what results from Boring's editing?

It's not googleable, I just checked.

Ok!

[rageragerage]

Priceless! You know we are all going to buy her book, right?

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Jan 29, 2015 17:04:05 GMT -5 elleblue said:

"It tears me heart out"

Lemme guess, she's writing a pirate themed romance.

It fills her with happy, sad, anger.

[irene adler]

Is she aware the one should not end a sentence with a preposition, or is that the least of her troubles?

[UMaineTeach]

Jan 29, 2015 16:35:56 GMT -5 Ohhmm(bligo) said:

23 hrs
Thinking I found the place to do my book covers! Maybe. Looking through the different companies that are under the platform I'm in now. There are so many, but I like the prices and hoping that whatever I choose does a wonderful job at representing what my books are about. Fingers crossed, because these companies are more in my price range at the moment!

This is the kind of thing she should ask on her writers' board. Who is a reputable and reasonablly priced cover designer?

[stellas]

Wowwwww.

It's like the open auditions for American Idol.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

17 hrs
How it feels to finally figure out what you have been trying to figure out for 2 years. Why the heck did I not google this info before now? Who knows. Back to work I go. Working chapter 2 now!

Hypocrite.

14 hrs ·
Well 2 pages of chapter 2 are revised. They are now 4 pages. Yeah this might take me longer than I thought. Who knows how much I will get done if momma has to come use my laptop. I'm off to bed now. Tons to do tomorrow.
B McW: Oh and a lot to think about.
14 hrs

1 hr
Got some dishes done, and some laundry folded. Going to write until I have to leave to pick up the girls. Then going to write some more. Unless my mom has to come use my computer to do our taxes. She has to talk to her computer guy to see if he was able to get the program on her laptop. Not sure why he couldn't sit down with her when she took it in on Wednesday to see about getting it on there. Nope he needed from then til today to see about.

1 hr ·
Yeah, I can't make up my mind how I want the prologue to be. Changing it yet again I think. Might be better than either version has been.

[malibu]

She...updates her statuses a lot.

I still cannot wrap my head around the fact this person thinks they can write well. She can't even post a Facebook status without making grammatical and spelling errors. If her books read anything like the way she posts, I'd buy one just to red-pen the shit out of it.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Jan 30, 2015 16:24:05 GMT -5 @smace said:

She needs to use her FB statuses As a book and sell that. I mean, they have us all waiting with baded breath. she'd probably be a millionaire. I wouldn't mind being known for being dumb if i was rich off it.

I should format The Saga into an ML coffee book and sell it at the ML store.

[UMaineTeach]

she might have to give up her laptop so her mom can do her taxes for her

oh the sacrifice!