Monday, December 5, 2011

Post: A Little Blog-Cleaning-Upping!


Alrighty, then! December is here and there's a bunch of things I need to mention, blogging things that have been on my mind for some time. So. Here goes!


1: Remember the Campaign Challenge over at Rachael Harrie's blog? I volunteered all of my entries to her first campaigner anthology, Campaigner Challenges 2011. It's an awesome collection of flash fiction that I am proud to be a part of. All proceeds go to Harry Moseley's cancer research charity "Help Harry Help Others". You can find printed copies here and the ebook here.

2: It's perfectly fine if you want to call me Dave. I've been called just about everything under that sun, including King David, Davy Crockett, Donkey Kong, P. King Duck, and Earthquake (long story - don't ask).

Call me Dotty and you die ...

3: We have working Internet now! Plus cable, after five years without! No more early morning commutes or late night borrowing of the in-law's wireless. Awesome.

4: Check out our latest members!

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Welcome aboard, bloggernauts! Enjoy the ride!


Update: Slow goings on at my end, resulting in less than acceptable word count. Just about done editing a side project. When that's over, the Dragon revision is next. The aim is to finish it before the new year.

How about you? Anything exciting on your end? What's your goal this week?

I'm David, and penguins don't need to fly!


45 comments:

  1. Couldn't live without the Internet! I did a round up today and still managed to forget a few things...

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  2. I cannot imagine life without the internet. It really is such an important element of my life. Good luck with the revision.

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  3. Congrats on being Woven being chosen over at Operation Awesome!

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  4. Hooray for internet!!! my goals, get my novel finished before the story makers conference!

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  5. Cool beans on the Campaigner anthology! I'll have to buy the ebook version. I was going to put my entry in, but waited too long. My goal this week? Don't put off anything important!

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  6. Having the internet will change your life.

    My goal: to get feedback. Feedback from the three publishers I pitched to and from my beta readers. After that, who knows?

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  7. Whoo-hoo for the Campaign Challengers Book! And I will never call you Dotty, but some of those other ones are very creative! So cool. Congrats on the cable and internet! That ROCKS! Good thing for me right now... this is my last week of school for the semester! Whoo-hoo!

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  8. If you were a penguin, you would want to fly. It's so wrong of you to mess with their dreams like that.

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  9. If I were a penguin, I'd want to fly. Just saying...
    So you are okay with being called Dave, but what do most people call you?

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  10. Congrats on operation awesome! I hope it leads to something good! And I am sooo going to come up with a creative nickname for you know... *thinks really hard*

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  11. It has a very stylish cover. Congrats on your successful entries.

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  12. Ah ha ha ha!! Dotty. That's funny. My hubby is named David and that's what I call him. My family calls him Dave, but I can't bring myself to do it!
    And YAY for internet! I almost went crazy when mine went out for a few weeks in September!

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  13. Hi again Dave! Thank you for the mention.
    You have an awesome blog and congrats on the internet! As for me...Need to finish tying together my nanowrimo and I need to really get into editing the novel I finished on the 30th of Oct and haven't looked at since...
    Have a super awesome week!

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  14. Thanks for the shout out, Sir! Now that NaNoWriMo is over, I'm back to hosting the Prompt-and-Share on Google+. That takes up a lot of time.
    My NaNo novel may have been a flunk (so, so, so so bad) but I'm not starting on a new one until I get a new computer. I lost too much with the craziness of this old one.
    So glad to hear you've got internet of your very won now, congrats!

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  15. *laughs* You are one funny dude, Davy ;) Thanks for the shout out and I'm loving your blog so far! Verrrrry entertaining! :D

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  16. thanks for the shout out :) And I'm seriously dying to know...Earthquake?...Dotty? :D Congrats on the Operation Awesome win too! We had some great entries, awesome job! :)

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  17. You are hilarious. I love hilarious! So no Dotty? *stamps foot* I'll call you DK or earthquake. It fits, by the by. :-) I love the shout out. Congrads on the internet. The miracle of miracles. (In-laws are doing the happy dance.) Ha! Awesome blog.

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  18. Thanks for the shout out! And yay for working internet!

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  19. So I guess Dot is out. LOL! Yay for the Campaigner book :)

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  20. That's awesome about the anthology. Good on you. It's a great cause.

    You brought up Dotty. You can't leave us hanging, you know. Out with it.

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  21. Congrats on the campaigner anthology, Dave! And working internet - Yay! Thanks for the shout out =D
    I hear ya, I'm coming off a month of less than acceptable word counts. My goal for the week is to keep plugging away at revisions, even if the going is slow. And I think I'll still be okay in terms of my larger goal, which is to be ready to pitch my novel by the time I attend my first conference next year (in May.)

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  22. hmm I think my goal this week is to finish my Christmas shopping. Not too exciting but it has to be done.

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  23. Thanks for the mention, Dotty! (kidding about the 'Dotty' bit LOL)

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  24. Good on you for the Campaign anthology mention.

    Yay for internet. Still not itching to get cable back.

    So, yeah, about that name Earthquake? I have time for a long story.

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  25. I think I'm going to call you D-dawg. Because nobody says that anymore...nobody but me.

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  26. I think you need to tell the story about why someone would call you Dotty. Was that from when you played catcher for the Rockford Peaches in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League?

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  27. You lived without the internet for FIVE years??? You are a warrior! I couldn't go that long without it.

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  28. I love how you sign off your posts. They never cease to amuse!

    Wow, 5 years without internet? You are a trouper!

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  29. I think I'd like to hear the long story behind being called "Earthquake." C'mon. You know you want to tell it.

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  30. There is so much I want to do this week, it's ridiculous. But the main thing I'm amped about is running a contest in the lead up to the release of my second book next week. This will be the first one I've ever run, so am excited about the challenge. Keep an eye out - I'm hoping to put it on line tonight :)

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  31. I am sort of giving up on getting everything done. Its giving me stress in my neck! I just need to get through the day without collapsing...

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  32. You always make me laugh DPK. I have so much to get done that I'm actually not doing anything! Could I be any more unproductive? NO, I don't think so.

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  33. I cannot believe you lived without internet for that long! I was without internet and cable for four days and I was going "dotty". I ended up making a daily trek to a cyber cafe just to feel like I was partipating in outside world.

    Congrats.

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  34. Hi Dotty. OOPS, I mean David!!! Thanks for the shout-out and kind comment on my blog!

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  35. My broadband gave up on one occasion, and I was without the internet for 2 weeks. It's funny how much I've come to rely on it for a bit of research or something.

    My goal is to get another chapter of my WIP rewritten by the end of the weekend (the weekend being my rewrite days). I didn't do as much to the rewrite as I should have done this weekend just gone, so I need to knuckle down and sort it out.

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  36. I'm hoping to get my WIP read and my first editing notes made. I'm so excited to be starting revision and editing!

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  37. Awesome that you got Internet. That and coffee I cannot survive without. I finally started my new project. It's good to be writing again.

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  38. Ha you make me laugh.... As did the flying penguin
    :)

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  39. Hurray for penguins and the internet! I'm sure easier access will make your lives easier. I hope so, anyway!

    Thanks for the links, too! I'll be sure to visit.

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  40. Thanks for the shout out, David. You have a groovy blog, too!

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  41. Holy Mr. Popular! We should do a collaboration for 500 followers ;) have an awesome evening!

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  42. My goal this week is pretty simple: don't let myself sink into the bog of eternal misery. I seem to be doing okay at it today!

    I'm supposed to be doing a read-through/edit of one of my novels this month. Haven't started yet.

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  43. hehe; I met my goal this week, I pre-wrote/scheduled three posts. For me, thats getting ahead.

    Now, if I can just finish off/polish my entry for The Litary Lab's anthology by the deadline . .

    So cool you're in Rachel's collection. Congrats :)

    ........dhole

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  44. Going to try and get stuck into some editing this week. Glad you're internet's all sorted again :-)

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  45. Glad to hear you have internet!

    My goal this week is to get back to revision. I finished a new rough draft for NaNo, and wrote 4 sonnets (got my poetry fix), and now I need to finish revising the old rough draft - hoping for 5,000 words worth of revision by the end of the week.

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