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Through NO FAULT OF MY OWN, my brain has ALREADY started thinking up concepts for new post-Horror High fics, even though I JUST finished the post-HH fics off and promised myself I was capping them at 10. But at least it's only two more? Re-capping it at 12? That makes it okay, right? :D;;

Literally I am at the whims of my brain, and my brain gets obsessive about things sometimes. *shrug*

Not that all that was necessarily NEGATIVE, but on a more POSITIVE note, yesterday I edited Comfort Food and started editing Something To Be Protected, which I FINISHED editing this morning. They're probably still not perfect because I'm not using a beta reader, but it is what it is. Now, I've got Teeth pulled up to edit THAT and DID I EVER MENTION HOW MUCH I FUCKING HATE EDITING?? Because it's SO MUCH. But it's got to be done, so...

.....

On Friday it was time to try the easystub login info that the (finally) helpful woman from McDonald's gave me, and it worked! *VICTORY MUSIC* So, I was able to get the T4 I needed for my taxes. I called the woman at McD's that afternoon to let her know that it worked and she seemed pleased. I'm still sure the Canada Revenue Agency came down on them HARD after the phone call I made to them and like... good? Yeah. Good.

Anyway, so yesterday I got Mom to print me off a rent receipt and now I'm ready to take my stuff to H&R Block to have them prepared and filed, so Mom is going to take me out there this afternoon, and she and Lee are both going to drop off their stuff at the same time. YAY TAXES. /SARCASM

Uhm, the axolotls are doing remarkably well, considering everything they've been through in the last six weeks, so my boys are tougher than they seem, I guess. I still need to swap their tank out (AGAIN) to the new one, but that has to wait until next week because first I have to buy paint when I do my monthly shopping to seal the boards that I bought for using as a base for the new aquarium.

Mom and Lee are CERTAIN this plan will work, but I'm not so sure. I have serious doubts but my opinion apparently doesn't matter and this is what we're doing period. If the whole thing collapses and the dresser breaks even more and this new tank gets cracked, I'm making THEM buy me another new tank AND dresser, I swear to God. -__-;;

In related news, when I treated the tank with the methelene blue for the fungal infection, it killed off all the aquatic plants, so once I get everything set up in the new tank I need to start buying new plants for the axolotls. I really wish I could just use fake plants in the aquarium but the stems on them could potentially hurt a 'lotl, especially since I'm not using any substrate in the tank so I have no way of burying them.

Maybe if I find big enough river rocks I can use them? Like big enough that they couldn't possibly eat them by accident. I would have to sort through them to make sure... hmm. I'll think on that.
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I didn't get much written for Hunting Souls yesterday and so far this morning because I've been working on editing and re-reading Snapshot on AO3 and finding a bunch of mistakes that I FREAKING missed before I posted it yesterday GODDAMMIT. So, I'll have to go through the text on Word and fix all the problems and then edit the text on AO3 and Tumblr.

There are downsides to not having a beta reader, but I've basically NEVER used beta readers, the idea makes me vaguely uncomfortable (something I need to get over if I want to actually get TKA/other books published), though I did, briefly, have a beta reader for my The Witcher fanfictions. It lasted for one fic and then I didn't write another The Witcher fic for like three years and by then they were gone. :|

The problem is that I would have to have SO MANY beta readers; one for my Valdemar stuff, one for my Supernatural stuff, one for my The Witcher stuff, one for my Teen Wolf stuff, one for my Hijack stuff, one for my Stucky stuff (if I ever get around to writing any...) And some of them (in particular the SPN and The Witcher fics, are often VERY smut heavy so it would have to be people who were comfortable with like... ALL THE SMUT for those ones.)

I honestly don't think I'm up to coordinating all that. =/

And I've always just kind of flown solo, it's just frustrating when I find mistakes after I publish something because I edit the SHIT out of my fics, like half a dozen run throughs before I post them. I probably shouldn't be so hard on myself, but it bugs the shit out of me to find a mistake in something people have already READ. UGH.

Anyway. So, more editing in my future, and hopefully I'll get some more Hunting Souls written later today. Yup.

On Editing

Feb. 2nd, 2025 09:19 am
senashenta: (Anti-Possession Symbol)
I HAVE EDITED WAYWARD DAUGHTERS FOUR TIMES AND I AM DONE (WHETHER I AM OR NOT.)
senashenta: (Dragon's Tail Pothos)
I finished my first edit of Storm Season last night; it went faster than I thought it would, there weren't as many errors in it as there were in Horror High, THOUGH partway through one chapter I found a scene that I had STARTED to write and then never... finished. *FACEPALM* So, I had to finish that up. Now Storm Season's word count is 77,005 and it's page count is 168, which is actually mildly disappointing. I was so tickled when it came in at 167, the exact same as Horror High. But oh well. XD;;

Anyway, I'm going to leave it sit for a while and then do another once-over before I start posting it, just in case, but as of right now Storm Season is ready to go and I am working on When Lightning Strikes, Ghost In The Machine and Teeth today, because for some reason this morning I can't just focus on one. Seriously, I need an up in my ADHD meds. :|

I haven't seen Kaida in a couple days. I startled her two days ago when I was cleaning out her tank and she disappeared. I just hope she's okay, I would be devastated if she died. :( ...and literally JUST as I was typing this I looked over and she was out wandering around SO I GUESS SHE'S FINE. Also she's bigger already and I've only had her a week. Apparently axolotls grow FAST. In other news, she JUST came back out and today I have to clean her tank again like. I'M SORRY KAIDA. ;~;

I think I might need to take Castiel out of the aquarium and plant him in dirt again, he's not doing as well in the water as Dean and Sam are, although he's doing better-ish now that he's away from the cooling fan. I'm gonna give it a few more days and see how he continues to fair and then decide. If I do have to plant him in a pot, I'm going to have to go to the Dollarama and buy some potting soil and also... a pot to plant him in. I have run out of pots lol. But Dean is still THRIVING in the tank and even though Sam hasn't been in there nearly as long he seems to be doing pretty well too, so those two are okay at the very least. I'm still growing Jack into a proper-sized plant before I can add him, but he's a spider plant so he should do fine. I dunno, just... learning as I go. *shrug*

Only three more days until Mom and I go to the aquarium in Toronto and I am SO EXCITED. I freaking LOVE aquariums, the one in Baltimore was my JAM, and Mom has never BEEN to one before so I'm looking forward to seeing her reaction, too. I'm gonna take TONS of pics and buy one or two things at the gift shop because aquarium gift shops are always awesome. <3

My Medic Alert bracelet broke the other day, which is a pain but not the end of the world because I have all the tools to fix chains and stuff, and I fixed it last night but now I need someone to help me put it back on because it's a two-hand job and obviously I can't do it on my own lol, so I'm gonna ask Mom today if she can just clip it back on for me. Then I'll be all safe and sound again.

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