jon_chaisson | Changing Things Up

So after months of hemming and hawing and dithering, i finally decided to cancel/delete my paid 750 Words account. It served me quite well over the last two years -- I wrote Diwa & Kaffi on that one while I wrote In My Blue World on the free account. That's the only time to date that I've written two novels in tandem, and it worked amazingly well for me. But once those projects were done, I found that I wasn't doing as much creative work there, skipping days, and writing more out of a sense of duty than having fun with it. So after exporting all the entries to my Dropbox (I figure that was the safest and smartest place to put them), I let it go.

So now I only have the grandfathered-in free 750 Words account (which, by the way, I realized I've had since 2011 but didn't really use until early 2012), and I'll keep this one because it's still quite useful when I need it.

In other news, I FINALLY finished the D&K synopsis yesterday. It's down to five pages, which is pretty good considering. I'm torn between editing it further because I'm bouncing between the current "just enough to tell the complete story" and an even smaller short-attention-span version. Five pages is fine to me, but I understand the industry standard is "thirty seconds or less or I give up on you", which has always irritated me. [Yes, yes, I know why it's there. But it still rankles because I've never been good at brevity.]

And in other other news, I see that Bernie...dropped out? Put himself on pause? Something. But either way I'm staying out of this particular online argument because most of his stans are being really f***ing insufferable today. And that's all I'm gonna say about that.

ANYWAY! Off to do some daily words and finish the laundry!