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Hello everyone, I’m still going through the audition files for “The Dreaded Day Job”. This one is OK…he has the same vocal patterns (stressing the same words) as the first one who is so far the front runner. I might put his audition up on YouTube is I can’t make a good decision. I was thinking that I would continue the audition process until the end of next week and then start getting things together as far as getting the script together, getting it read and out there. Of course, I have no idea how to do that, so it’s going to be a learning experience for everyone involved. Much like everything else as I am discovering.

Speaking of learning experiences, I would like to take the time to say that vodka and food poisoning don’t really mix well. I think I got a total of three hours sleep. When I get into the cups, I tend to lose track of time, and when I’m in my cups and playing Borderlands 2…well…I finally tore myself away from the cups and the shooting to get a couple of hours of sleep, then having to go to the bathroom with an alarming frequency. I will spare you, Dear Reader, with the gruesome details. Needless to say, the hotdog from work I ate had a vendetta against mankind. What’s worse is that it was a good tasting hot dog. Oh, well – I guess I can’t win everything.

I’m sorry if it looks like I’m rambling, but I think I am going to call it a day. I promise that tomorrow I will have something worthwhile to read.

Thank you for your patronage and patience. I will try not to wear it thin in the future.

Sincerely,

Seething Apathy

The Three Hundred and Eighth Post: The One Where I Talk About The Importance of Formatting.

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Hello, everyone. I’m just sitting here listening to Art Bell and having some orange cream soda and vodka. The Imaginarium is coming up in about a month and I need to get my book re-done. Apparently when I sent in the original manuscript, I didn’t resize the font. When I’m writing, I have the font set at 11, but the size of the screen was set to 150%. I forgot to resize everything when I was setting up the book. Good news is that I can resubmit everything (especially when I still have the original final draft sitting in offline storage), but it’s going to be a pain in the rear when I have to re-size the font and the cover art…which I might have to re-do anyways. There’s someone at work who’s far more into photography than I am, so I might enlist his aid in re-shooting the picture. I wonder if it’s on my DeviantArt page. I’ll have to go look.

OK — once again I am going to try to build up my meager success in writing today and get at least 1,500 more words done on The Marvelous and Malefic Doomsday Show. I want to get this done by the end of the month. Completely feasible if I put my nose to the stone. I know I talk about this quite a bit, but it’s the only project that I am seriously working on now. I am working on a radio play adapted from a game I ran (The Maddening Gyre) and penciling about another fantasy novel that I need to work on after its prequel (the sequel to The Quietest Heart). As long as I keep talking about it, it keeps me interested and as long as I keep interesting, I’ll keep writing. if it bores you, I apologize. I need to really step up my production from one book a year to at least two or three. I think that’s going to be the key to making a living writing out of it.

One of the things that I am liking about the current work is that I am writing about a guy that’s largely amoral, but not making him so bad that you lose interest about him. I want him to be bad, but not wretched. Does that make sense? if he’s a complete prick, no one is going to want to continue on with the story, unless they want to see him fall further. If he’s too good, it loses the flavor of the story that I want. I can do it, I just have to channel my inner jerk for Ehren. I’m also thinking that this is going to be the name for the main character. I might re-name his sidekick later on, but for now I’m sticking with Oisin. With luck, I’ll finish the chapter this week and plunge ahead to the next chapter: the meeting with the other mendants — where we find out he has less than a pleasant reputation among his peers.

Well, now that I’ve spilled the beans for the current novel, I am going to head off to write it. I’m still accepting people for reading The Dreaded Day Job if you think you can sound like Evan, head to acx.com and lay down an audition track. Click on the links to the right to buy a copy to get familiar with the work.

Thanks for reading, and I wish you the best.

Sincerely,

Seething Apathy

The Three Hundred and Seventh Post: The One Where I Talk About Auditions!

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Hello everyone, it’s me and I am currently going through the auditioning process for my novel. So far, I have three people auditioning. One sounds really good, the other sounds OK and the third wants $500.00 up front. I like the first one because he has the timing that the novel needs. I wish I could put them up here and let y’all listen to them, but neither this site nor Facebook would let me post the .mp3 files. Right now, I’m trying to get them put up on YouTube and see if that works. If not, then I don’t know what to do. Anyways, the first one I listened to really had the snarky tone down. He sounds a little older than I picture the main character to be (I see Evan as in his late twenties to early thirties). So far, he’s going to get the nod unless I find someone better be the end of next week.

I must admit, I am being bad. I haven’t written anything in a while. I should get back on the horse as it were if I want to finish a novel by the end of the month. I’m still plotting along with the Regalia novel, and I should e-mail myself a few mines from The Marvelous and Malefic Doomsday Medicine Show so I can do that at work with the long stretches of time in between calls. I mean…5 whole minutes! I can do a lot with that time. Kinda. I can get a couple of sentences done, I just need to get over the notion of having outlines ready to go. With this work, I’m just going to wing it, as it were. Which would be good, if I had a little more than some zinger one liners and plot points. I’m still trying to find what really works for me as far as a balance between pantsing and plotting. When given a blank canvas, I tend to go on and get sidetracked by all the sparkly little plots. When I follow the outline, I sometimes feel like I’m letting some good opportunities flutter by. Oh, well — we will see what happens.

On a tangent, another thing I need to get back into is photography. One thing that strikes me is what called “abandoned porn” (no, not that). I like seeing how someone can get into an abandoned building and find art among the ruins. I’m trying to find places like that here, where I live. There is an abandoned building that I did take a couple of pictures of a year ago, but I would like to make it back there and poke around inside. I need to work on photography so I can make some better book covers.

Well, that’s all for now. All the caffeine I drank is starting to wear off, so it’s best I wrap this up now before I just collapse on the keyboard. Thanks for reading, and hopefully I’ll have some audition material for everyone to listen to and gently prod me into using. If you’re a voice actor and reading this — feel free to go to acx.com and send me an audition tape. There is a section to be read. Who knows? You could be the voice of Evan for at least three books.

Sincerely,

Seething Apathy

The Three Hundred and Sixth Post: The One Where I Talk About Something I Just Discovered!

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Hello, all – I’m sorry I haven’t been available for blogging over the past few days. Mostly, it’s been trying to get my PC back up to full strength (and stop playing this) and working on another idea. Some good news: I found a company willing to produce The Dreaded Day Job as an audio book and sell it through Amazon, Audible and I think Barnes and Noble. I’m actually a little excited about this because it’s another way to squeeze some sales out of it, and I think it’s better suited as an audio book (being first person and all) or maybe even a radio play (might work on that rather than “The Maddening Gyre” just because it’s faster to do for me). So – when that’s ready to go, I’ll put up a link on the right hand side and let everyone know.

Speaking of projects – I’m still working on The Marvelous and Malefic Doomsday Medicine Show and I will hopefully get to the end of the second chapter by the end of the week. Since work has figured that having an iPad out and doing real work rather than fielding calls is for some odd reason ‘counter-productive’ (don’t know why one would think that. I get about 1K to 1500 words done a session here at work. That’s highly productive for me), I am going to have to get all the writing done when I get home. It’s not going to be a big problem since the PC is running now, and I’m using Word Online to write the manuscript. Eventually, I plan on getting Office Word, Excel and One Note (provided I can get some sort of traction in getting the lost info off of the old main hard drive…and clean my desk off, too. I know that has nothing to do with hard drives and lost files, but as you can see:

It needs it.

There’s nothing else going on that’s deeply interesting. I’m working on novels galore (and boy will it be a good day) and I am aiming to have something done by year’s end – Nanowrimo, too. I’ve found services for cover art and the only thing I’m lacking is a decent (and very cheap) editor. Most of the people I know who are really good editors are also working writers. No matter how much I entice them with money, chocolate or tea, they’re up to their gills in their own work. Not that I fault them, but there are a few people I really trust with my stuff. I should actually finish something first – which I will do at the end of this month.

Well, thanks for reading. I hope to have some more news for you tomorrow – especially about the audio book. If you want to get the jump on everyone, just look to the right and click on the links for what I have up now.

Hope y’all have a good day.

Sincerely,

Seething Apathy