Claire Gillian

I had a very productive day, writing-wise, yesterday. Almost half of my weekly total of 5300 words came from that session. I call that a win. Editing my novel was not a win, still deferred. Beta reading was fast and furious early in the week when I traveled, but fell off when I returned home.

I received my galley to proof (well, a link to it online) for an anthology that will contain one of my short stories. I mostly wanted to rewrite it but I don’t think that’s allowed at this point. Wah. Oh well. It is what it is. I don’t suppose I’d ever be 100% happy with it. It’s due 4/19 but I need to ship my measly four edits off today, tomorrow if I’m not able to muster up a bit more energy than what I currently possess. Looks like publish date is end of this month–super duper fast.

My cumulative ROW80 stats are HERE.

Linky index to other participants’ progress reports is HERE. Give ’em some encouragement, please.

Saw this widget on a book review blog so of course I had to try it. Warning, if you click it, it may also launch a browser for a dating site, so curb your mouse if you’re leery of that sort of thing (pop up sites and/or dating.)

Created by OnePlusYou – Free Dating Sites

Surprised it’s G? I am. I thought it would be PG or PG-13 at least. Methinks it’s my landing site which is just a picture and a bit of text. So I gave it the address of the blog page and got this:

Damn. (<<–should have kicked me up to PG right there.)

Now obsessed, I checked my “Books I’ve Read” page. This is how it rates:

Now, I have to laugh. My reading titles are racier than my blog posts.

Testing my YA writing (another blog and pen name), I got this:

Aww come on!

Perhaps this is a problem. A teaser Tuesday excerpt containing the male character’s saltier language is to blame.

Checking my erotica pen name’s blog, I got:

OK, now something is SERIOUSLY wrong here when my YA writings are naughtier than my erotica writings.

Actually, the logical explanation is that my naughtier pen name blog is almost 100% password protected. The search engine could only read the post titles. I’ll call that a win in terms of sanitizing the appearance for the unauthorized.

Claire’s writings, though, perhaps need a little spicing up, at least this blog. I’ll work on that (though I suspect my beta readers will laugh when they read this.)