Suddenly reading McCaffrey, why did I not do this sooner?

My fiance made me take a challenge, to read Anne McCaffrey, and the funny thing is this is not the first time I was given this challenge. I was of course in high school when I was told by my father to try her out. I was of course 15 and not exactly getting into fantasy as much as I thought. Yes, reading Lackey's material became an addiction.

So now as I write my own stuff, I'm kind of going, what should I read now? I have put this off until my fiance of all people just dangled this in front of me. So here I am reading books and finding out my memories of a childhood listening to my father reading Dragonsong before bedtime dance right into my head. It is amazing how much you remember from picking up one small book at the library.

Thanksgiving Day Editing Nightmares

I cannot tell you how much I wanted to do some writing, but I was at my parents' place and forgot my my notebooks and somehow my nephew sparked some new ideas. He's such a great kid.

The Convention Success

Daku Con was amazing and I am proud of going to this convention, and there are times I thought I had not seen full frontal, but that's just that. There are a few sayings that I kind of said, "What goes on at Daku Con, stays at Daku Con."

This convention is certainly a con I will attend again.

Well...all packed and ready to go, I hope

I have not expressed how much I hate packing...but here it is, I am packing for a convention and getting ready to work on 3 panels. I was just thinking about what was going on, and I also have this weird thought in my mind of running into people from my past who seem to think it is a good time to make drama. I have avoided them, so I'm going to just sit and read through it and hope it does not happen.

The truth is that getting ready for conventions still makes it kind of nerve racking when you make plans and seeing REAL friends. The fact is, I'm also having to work on my book at the same time. So far, I know I will be up and ready for this by more than 1 pm, I'm going to be there before then to get in the hotel.

The truth is that the work has been slower than normal

Convention coming up and Editing issues

I started on part 2 of what my book is, though I thought it would be cool to start working on it shortly, I was wrong. I am kind of now feeling a little lost and I feel like sometimes I want to rip up my notebook, ugh, I write it by hand.

The truth is that sitting around right now getting ready for Daku Con next week is frustrating at first, but then I remember I am going to have fun and think about something fun. I have my Fan Fiction to Fiction panel, workshop and writing are going to be fun. I am hopeful we will have some mature writers and also people who are willing to share their works.

I do have one thing to say though, I know that writing smut must be fun and all, but rape fiction is not fun. I am sorry, but while I do write fan fiction, I would not think about fan fiction is suitable to write about real people. There is something about it that just makes me cringe.

Yes, I write Star Wars, Anime Fan Fiction, but I avoid writing rape fan fiction about a real person. I had a former friend who was a really into a J-Rock group. I was sort of turned off when she asked me to edit it for her. I later rejected it because it was something that I read that it was just not right to write that kind of stuff. So when I warn people to be aware that writing about a real person is not 100% okay and seriously hurts your writing.

On a lighter note, I was busily thinking that writing has saved the day for me...and my fiance made a joke and it really made me giggle.