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J.A. Marlow wrote:I captured mine from the old forum and transferred it here to be part of my profile. You may want to look at the old site before it goes down to get your own date of joining.
That was what I was wondering how to do. When I try to visit the old site, all I get is a link to this one… Perhaps I’ll try Google Cache and see if I can come up with anything that way.
Hmmm… goals… resolutions…
Well, I can at least say that I’m trying to finish the third draft of my 2012 nano novel by late spring, early summer. I also signed up for the 2yn class, so keeping up with those lessons will definitely be part of it. Another one would be to write some more (and finish other) short stories, and hopefully submit them to some magazines.
Mostly though, I just want to get to the point where I’m writing consistently- a certain number of days per week, whether those are in consecutive order or not. Or even a certain number of words per week. Heck, I would be happy with one CHAPTER a week!
Rearrange schedule so that write-revise-submit is possible again. The by-chance technique doesn’t yield good results.
So the heck with the private time my daughter thinks she needs in the morning. We’ll find some way to give her alone time and me writing time.
Great at theory, terrible at practice.
I hopped over and found you. Here is your info:
Member since May 31st 2007
J.A. Marlow
The String Weavers, Salmon Run, Redpoint One series.Writer alter-ego of Dreamers Cove
J.A. Marlow wrote:I hopped over and found you. Here is your info:Member since May 31st 2007
Thank you!
Go to the old site and look at one of your posts. It’s in the author info section of the post header. In Wandering Author’s case, the date is June 1, 2007.
For Seleane Gray, it’s October, 28, 2008.
I’m also working on goals. My goals for 2013 are seemingly simple: Finish the revision of Polar Bear on the Loose and the How to Revise Your Novel course. I also plan to participate in NaNoWriMo again in November. I’m uncertain about Camp NaNo in the summer.
jschara wrote:Go to the old site and look at one of your posts. It’s in the author info section of the post header. In Wandering Author’s case, the date is June 1, 2007.For Seleane Gray, it’s October, 28, 2008.
Thanks. J.A. Marlow said it was 31 May 2007 – I suspect the difference must be due to time zone settings.
I did try going to the old site to check myself, but all I seem able to load is a link to this site. So now I’ll have to wonder which day it was. :ohmy: Since I already entered the answer I had in my profile, I guess I’ll leave it alone. But the genealogist in me is going to obsess over that one day discrepancy. (The odd thing is, just how much data does not quite agree. I’m sure you both checked, and gave me the answer you found. And yet, one date is a day after the other. This sort of thing is far more typical than you’d think. In fact, I don’t doubt there are many plot bunnies lurking in there, somewhere. After all, what if this date was a clue to something vital?
)It’s a one day difference. None of us will complain either way. I just looked again and it was the June date on several posts. I’m sure JA checked, too, and like you, I’ll wonder about the discrepancy.
jschara wrote:It’s a one day difference. None of us will complain either way. I just looked again and it was the June date on several posts. I’m sure JA checked, too, and like you, I’ll wonder about the discrepancy.Well, I’m pretty sure in this case it must have something to do with the way time zone settings are applied. At least, that’s the only explanation I can think of that makes sense. I’ve seen other weird things on forums due to those time zone settings. So I’m guessing you’d see the June date on every post, and JA would see the May date on every post. Possibly someone else might see 30 May instead of 31 May, but if my theory is right, then it can’t be off by more than one day in any direction, so that would be the widest possible ‘spread’ you might see.
But the more I think of this, the more plot bunnies are hopping out of the woodwork and running all over the place. There are times when even an hour’s difference could be significant. Alibis, inheritances, and so on… And in science fiction, when the possible range would expand as the size of territory covered expanded… I bet, sooner or later, I get at least one or two stories out of this. :woohoo:
I also don’t do resolutions; I do goals.
2012 royally sucked. It was mostly spent in a back-and-forth with an abusive housemate (and boyfriend, in my case), in which my primary partner and I told him he needed to change his behavior or leave. He did change, for awhile, but it went right back to the same old patterns as soon as he felt secure. We just got him out in November.
Needless to say, 2012 did not see much writing at all. I intend to rectify this in 2013. I want to finish a novel; not one that I have already started, that is a large part of the way finished, but one start to finish. I think I am leaning towards my medieval-esque/steampunk/magic-heavy setting, which has some cool characters that have been really calling to me.
It would make more sense to finish revisions on the novel I have finished and toss it out into the world, but I think it is more important to me to rediscover the love of writing — because truly, it has been so long since I have written that I have forgotten what that love feels like. And that is a sad, sad thing for a writer.
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