Phishing

Good morning all! Today I'm going to talk a bit about phishing. If you don't know what it is, that's spammers sending emails with links for you to go to to "verify" personal information. I've been getting a lot lately about my PayPal account. Each one says someone has added a new email address to my account. Each one says I need to verify my account info by clicking the link below. Each one looks so official... well it's scary.

I never clicked the link, fortunately. I simply went to my account to see for myself this new address. There wasn't one. I emailed PayPal and they got right back to me. It's a fraud they said. I tend to be very leary of catching a virus. I never open mail I don't know, but like I said the email looked official. I'm so glad I decided to cut the middle man from this and check on my own account myself. I'm not savy about the computer. I thought it was real. I just figured rather than waiting for PayPal to erase the email, I was going to do it myself. I'm so thankful I didn't answer that email!

DON'T GIVE personal info out over emails!

Lori

Revision, Revision, Revision!

Morning All! I haven't been posting lately. I'm hip deep in a revision of Firey Strength. Taking 14 months to write, some things are different from the beginning of the book than the end. Small things, but still necessary to change for a seamless story. Size is another issue. Most publishers like around 100,000 words. Fortunately, Wings ePress, allows up to 150,000. The finished story was 153,000. I have to edit out a bunch, which should raise the suspense and tensions because I'll cut the boring parts first!

I'm hoping to get the first round of edits before school starts next week, but we'll see. I'm going to have to do another edit anyway for words and sentence structure. Not that I'm not going to do that this time through too. I really have to laugh though, some of what I'm editing, I LIKED when I wrote it. I thought it sounded wonderful. Now I wonder what I was thinking! LOL A friend of mine says it's a sign of growth. I hope so. I certainly have a lot to learn about writing.

I love writing even when it's hard.

I'm working on five projects at once. Editing Firey Strength, finishing the rough draft of Castle's Hero, started an new project called (for now) Shaken, finishing the first draft of A New Beginning, (A story I stopped writing a few years ago),and toying with Brave Season (fourth book in the paranormal series).

I have never failed to finish a story I've started. A New Beginning has always been there waiting, for me to get off my butt and finish. I will. I still like the story, which is more than I can say about Fiery Strength some times. LOL

Guess that's all for now.
Lori

Finished it...finally!

I've been struggling to finish "The Story that Never Ends" otherwise known as "Fiery Strength" I have spent over 14 months writing this story. It's up to 150,000 words. That's about 600 pages in case you're wondering. I wrote with much determination to finish it yesterday and 12 hours later, I did it!

I've never had such a hard time writing a story before. I have stories I've lost interest in, wanted to burn after I got them started and such. I've never taken so long on one story, even working other stories. Now of course I have to edit it, but that can wait a day or two. I have to cut it down, trim the fat. I'm not sure my publisher would accept it because of the size alone.

Anyway, it's done! Yeah! Kind of left the reader hanging waiting for the next book I hope. "Fiery Strength" is the second of four books dealing with the same characters, but I want each of them to stand on their own not relying on the others. I think I've achieved this and leaving the reader to wonder about the third character as a lead in to the third book. "Castle's Hero"

I'm 50,000 or so words into the rough draft of that story. I'll start that one today by editing what I have then take it through to the conclusion. Hopefully letting the reader find out what happened to Corbin from the Land of Maine. This will lead me into the last one, the grand finally so to speak where everything is revealed and a bad guy who's attempts to ruin the main characters lives is finally uncovered and stopped... or not. LOL

Okay, I've bored myself. LOL Talk to you all tomorrow!
Lori