Creative writing night and a sale!

[erastes]

First off HAPPY BIRTHDAY thistlerose and gnomi Hope you both had/have a great day!

Sale to "The Drabbler" of a drabble I wrote in August last year - I think, about Alien Pet Care. I think that's my first ever non erotic sale... *snigger*

want to write more, but am too damned tired

Comments

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!
=D

[semioticwarrior.livejournal.com]

You're rockin' the sales! Congrats!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!

And congratulations on the sale!!

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

blackholly recommended I ask you something. I've noticed you have been writing a great many words.

I am extremely slow at writing. Stories are laborious and, like a horrorible labor, painful and bloody hell to rip out of me.

How do you write so often, so fast and have so many books and projects out there?

[irreparable.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

thank you, hun!

xxx

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Hi Mr O.

As to my word count, I'm not as prolific as all that, believe me. "Standish" took me no time at all to write, because I was fired up with inspiration and it poured out of me like water. I started "Transgressions" almost immediately and it took 3 years to completion. I blame fanfic for that, but the time I spent in fanfic was well spent and I was a better writer when I came out of fandom than when I went in.

I'm an incredibly lazy writer, I aim for 750 words a day, but I rarely achieve it. I signed up for [Unknown site tag] and have already failed to make more than a week of the goal. Procrastination is the thing I'm really really good at. There are a ton of writers on my flist who write 1000 words plus a day, easily, and get four or five novellas published in ebook form a year – that's far too scary for me.

But. That being said, I keep a tight eye on the markets – by that I mean the markets in which I'm likely to be able to sell something – homosexual erotica – and I try hard to hit every deadline I can, particularly with the larger publishers like Alyson. There's not much money in short stories but they are publicity, and if people like the writing in the anthologies, I hope that eventually they'll notice that Erastes is appearing more often and will seek out the novel.

But it's not easy. Sometimes – oh wonderful rare moments – the words spill out onto the page and you know where the scene's going and all your characters are doing exactly what you want them do and there's no research to do and it's all going swimmingly – and then other times, your characters turn stubborn, refuse to do as they are told, the sex seems forced, dull, boring and same as everyone else ever writes, the plot takes a huge turn to the left destroying what you had planned, and you find you've got to go and research model trains for days before you can progress.



But I try and write every day. I think about it all the time. I'm lucky that I don't have family and stuff to concern me, so I have more time than most.



There are loads of things I can say. Make a diary, set aside an hour to do nothing else but write, write the words "rubbish" over and over rather than writing nothing – but I'm sure you do all those already!


If you want to chat more, let me know – I can always try out this LJ chat thing, or i have MSN and Gmail chat.

Erastes

[erastes.livejournal.com]

i'm going to try and hit more deadlines in future, i've missed a lot, recently.

xxx

[erastes.livejournal.com]

thank 'ee!

xxx