2012 Round-Up

This year was difficult, due to family issues which meant that my partner and I had to find somewhere to live very quickly. It took more time than it we hoped it would, in part because we didn’t have a rental reference, but we finally found a place I think we’re beginning to call home. We are just renting a room as money is tight and yet we’re both in a much better situation that we were when we were living apart. I’m not going to lie and say everything is perfect – I don’t think, considering what life issues my partner and I have already dealt with, our relationship will ever be perfect, but we’re happy most of the time.

Moving meant that I was without access to the Internet for some time. I’m not certain exactly how long it was, but I know I was just beginning to come up with a schedule that worked for me and then everything fell apart. Once I was back online I couldn’t focus as much as I wanted to due to where we were living, the time we were spending looking for somewhere to live, the time we spent moving, and then my partner switched from working at one of his jobs on a full-time basis to the other, which caused even more upheaval. Slowly I’m beginning to work out another schedule, but it’s taking time, and it does mean that I’m behind. I owe stories to a lot of people, there are things I need to go back and make sure I’ve done, and what I want to attempt to do is get as much of that done this month as possible.

There has been some experimentation. Some have worked, the random number prompts, and some haven’t, the auction I held. 2013 is hopefully going to be a year of more experimentation, a year I can truly focus on writing without having to go on an unplanned hiatus, and the year I begin earning properly. I’m going to be posting 500 words a day every day this year, as well as working on the write mores, completing some of my newly created bingo cards, and simply trying to write as many words as possible. This year I should easily be able to write 200,000 words as long as I do post 500 words a day and send off all the stories I currently own to people.

I’m looking forward to 2013. All I can do is hope it’s going to be better than 2012 was, because I was anticipating a better year last year, but it turned out to be a year full of upheaval.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

2012 Posted Fiction and Bonus Material

Fiction (date posted order)

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Fiction and Bonus Material 2012

Fiction (date posted order)

 

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December Round-Up

The Advent Story went well, although I misjudged the wordcount and ended up having to write three little bonus stories at the end. They focused on characters that had been introduced during the Advent Story: the British Prime Minister, George; Alder’s sister, Esra: and one of the other elders, Sorrel. I want to write more about all of them and one thing I really want to write about is how George became Prime Minister. (See links for these stories here and all the other stories I posted in 2012.)

I also posted almost all the stories for the October Prompt Session, including finally managing to write about Lucifer. That is something I was very happy about because he’s finally stopped nagging me. I have one more story left to post, for Elizabeth, before which will be posted by the end of the month, along with the stories from the December Prompt Call.

The Sunday Raffles didn’t seem to interest anyone, which is why I ended up trailing off at the end of the month, but I’m going to keep going with the raffle idea for a few months and see if I can make them interest more people. Elizabeth Barrette and MJ Ashford are my two winners, because they actually entered, so send me an email and let me know what prize you’d like.

January is character profile month, so hopefully from tomorrow I’ll be posting full profiles, instead of cheating, and so far I’ve posted a story a day – making it through the year may be more difficult that I think it’s going to be, but I feel good about it right now. This month I’m also planning on having a random number prompt session and I’ll be having a themed prompt session at the end of the month/beginning of February. I’m going to begin posting stories for my bingo cards too, which is going to make January a busy month.

My goals for January are: writing at least 50,000 words, which should be easy enough; post every day; and earn at least £50 in donations – I have to renew my website hosting in March, so I hope to earn that (£60 for two years), and some money for the groceries.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

The Fae World: Jessica: Stepping Into A Story

At first Jessica thought she’d made a mistake. It wasn’t as though she’d had any help, because it had been her idea and she was as certain as she could be that no one had ever used magic the way she had. There had been stories about people finding themselves living through the storyline of a book, movie, TV series, or game, but she hadn’t heard anything about someone who had chosen to step into a fictional world. Of course that didn’t mean it hadn’t happened. With fae magic no one seemed to be quite sure of anything, which was why she’d never mentioned her plans to anyone. Someone would have tried to talk her out of experimenting, especially as her plan was to create a magical portal that would take her into a fictional world so she could change something and see what happened when she left again.

In all honesty it wasn’t the most sensible plan Jessica had ever come up with. She knew that. There was just a part of her that wanted to see if she could create a portal that would send her into a fictional world, another part of her that really wanted to have some control over the books she read, and a third part that simply wanted to play with magic now that she could. A fourth part, a really quite fourth part, kept telling her that something had to go wrong, because she was playing with fae magic. Ignoring that part was much easier than she anticipated, which was why she was standing in the fictional world of her choice with nothing but the clothes she was wearing.

Well, that was where Jessica thought she was. The point she had chosen in her fictional timeline was one that had been mentioned, but was never actually a part of the story, and that was probably the stupidest thing to have done. She wasn’t sure exactly where she was meant to be. All she knew was that there had been a death at that time that she wanted to prevent, in order to change things in the future. If she could change one thing then it seemed possible that she could change the other things she had disliked, making the storyline go the way she thought it should have done instead of the way the author had made it go, because she was the one in control.

Biting hard on her lip Jessica looked around. The portal had appeared in front of her, the way it was supposed to, and she had stepped through it, so she should be where she planned on being. She should have done a test first, going to a part of the storyline she knew well, but she had been adamant about what she wanted to change first. It would, if she got everything right, make a huge difference to a couple of the characters in the future, which was what she wanted, because she had grown to love the characters and she wanted their lives to be happier.

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Character Profile: Astrid

Name: Astrid
Gender: Female
Birth date: unknown
Race: Nox Gadael
Home world: unknown
Live-on world: Taithmarin
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