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#IWSG SEPT 4TH, 2024, English Rules That Mess You Up!

Hi Everyone,

Today is day 86 in the hospital for me, still awaiting approval. 🙏Prayers needed–that I will be approved and get the Rehab I seriously need.

I have been editing a friends manuscript, and doing IWSG Instagram, Newsletter, and Facebook admin things while in hospital. I have also been the Sat Fellowship feedback zoom call for my Ream subscription fiction. Writing, not so much.

However, I need to and plan to attempt to write a flash fiction story for an advent calendar ASAP. I have participated in the advent for the last several years. I also need to write my October Storytime flash fiction, my Grumpy short story for Stormdance, and get back to revising and editing my series book 1 for Midlife Ghostwalker: Katje Storm.

So I have a lot of writing I need to do that I have been neglecting with this big Life Happened incident. I am better, and hope to get physically stronger with Rehab..

I’ll see ya next month, if not sooner. 🙏Prayers appreciated.

Juneta

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September 4 question – Since it’s back to school time, let’s talk English class. What’s a writing rule you learned in school that messed you up as a writer?

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SEPTEMBER 4TH QUESTION: MY ANSWER:

I made good grades in English, but what messed me up was the “changing times”, aging, and instead of two spaces after a period it is now one. Still can’t do it has to always be fixed. Why change or fix something that was not broken?

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April 5th question – Do you remember writing your first book? What were your thoughts about a career path on writing? Where are you now and how is it working out for you? If you’re at the start of the journey, what are your goals?

Well, I have not finished the first book. Recently, I pulled it out and reread. It was not as bad as I thought it was when I gave up on it. I will probably pull it out one day and redo it and finish.

I rather speak of where I am now. I am in this for the long haul. I have been writing since I was a young adult. I have pursued writing as a career since 2011, half-heartedly occasionally, but I had a lot of learning and growing to do as a writer and a businessperson.

I published for the first time in 2018 and started Stormdance Publications, creating theme-anthologies with another writer. We are still publishing anthologies. In fact, we are getting ready to release Grumpy Old Gods Volume 6. My Amazon Page.

I have several series planned with my first series coming out end-of-year or early 2024. I outlined the first book in short form on Medium, and I am now revising and expanding. You can read the short form below on Medium. I also have a Paranormal Cozy Mystery series planned set in the same world. I’m excited about that too.

Midlife Ghostwalker Series 87 Short Form Episodes Available

Something new I am doing is I try to re-evaluate my processes, personal, writing, and business quarterly, for what is working and not working. I have learned when I have a really productive day, the next day usually is not as productive, or a lot less productive. It allows me to see what I am doing and not doing, and learn. It helps me see what I need to change to improve my productive and achieve my goals.

I am a perpetual learner in the art of fiction craft, so that alone is a journey in my process as a writer. I am a course-a-holic and it gives me much joy.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

—Ernest Hemingway

I believe this quote with all my heart. There is nothing we cannot learn or improve upon.

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Midlife Ghostwalker: Katje Storm: A Serialized Short Form on Medium.

Midlife Ghostwalker: Katje Storm

  • 150 Word Short Form Serialization on Medium.
  • An Experiment in outlining and storytelling.
  • Midlife Crisis Trope
  • Genre: Paranormal Women’s Fiction

BLURB:
I just turned forty, plus I just filed for divorce from my cheating soon-to-be ex-husband, but if that is not bad enough, he murdered me. I didn’t stay dead. Turns out I’m magical, a ghostwalker with a destiny I had no clue about.

Read my serialized story on Medium.

I recently learned if you are reading short form stories you do not need a friend link you can read as many short forms behind the payway as you want to without subscribing. Just click the linK above and start reading. As of June 10th, 2022 I am up to episode thirty. E1-30.

An Experiment In Short Form: What is Medium Short Form?

Medium has introduce a new format. 150 word stories for readers who want bite-size reads. Those 150 words include title, subtitle, photo credits, and link words.

The challenge for me is to tell a novel size story in episodes 150 words a pop. I invite you to come on the journey with me and read, comment, tell me how I am doing. Are you engaged? Does the story excite you? Are you having fun? The experience for me is to create rough draft (outline) of a novel, world build, in bites bits for a short form serialization. Its experiment to later be enlarged into a novel.

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About my Midlife Ghostwalker on Medium.

My Publishing Timeline

My goal is to publish an episode a week on Medium, but more often if I can manage it in my schedule.

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Jory's Gamble by Juneta Key
Created by Vanessa Wells

This is a flash fiction set in my Starlight Galaxy space opera series.

Jory’s Gamble
By Juneta Key

Space angels.

I swear I saw one, as the turbo blasts volleyed from the Atticus M-Class Battlescout. Three shots bounced off our shields. 

“Shield capacity decreased by 25%,” Geary, my modified MEC-BOT, said next to me in the co-pilot seat.   

This might possibly be the last ghost-run I made for the cause.  

The Sabre, a modified piece together luxury transport and starfighter, was built for speed and stealth over fire power. What it lacked was reinforced shielding and battle armament.  The focus had been hidden cargo boots for transporting goods or people. 

Galactic Patrol should not have been out this far. They lack the resources to patrol The Fringe. 

Okay, we needed a plan. “Geary, ditch cargo bay twelve.  We need to lose some weight.” The Sabre couldn’t take many hits like that. 

“The Watcher’s won’t be happy, Jory.  They’ll stick you for the…”  

“I know. Just do it. I’ll worry about that if it happens.”  I had built Geary as a kid, from parts I scavenged falling from the battle debris ring around our homeworld, Saratova, The Mechanical Planet.

Another blast caught our tail, in that moment I swear, there was a space angel peering into the viewport, right at me.  Her eyes held a universe of stars.  I blinked. 

 Viewport clear.  

“Shields at 9%.” Geary’s bot-hands worked at three times the speed of mine. He dumped the cargo. “Shields back up to 18%. Two more hits and we are fried wires and roasted space parts.”

Suddenly we were dead in space as the M-Class lassoed us with a tractor-beam.  The Sabre strained and shuddered. We were caught.  

“Jory?” Geary’s voice actually went up a couple of octaves. 

“I know.” I flipped switches, punched buttons, and rotated a few capitor caps.  I moved to the back control panel, and rewired the power relays.  “I have the hyper-port back online. Put all our power into that.”

“But Jory, without shields the force could pull us apart.”

“I know. Do it.”

“Done.”

I strapped back in,and activated the hyper-port as I fired our last cannon-torc directly into the tractor-beam of the Battlescout.  We jerked. Stalled. Jumped. The stars coalesce into pinpoints. 

“You did it.” Geary shouted.. 

I relaxed back into my chair for a split-second, and then unstrapped.  “I’m going to check damage in the cargo area. I swear I heard the ship seams splitting in that last strain.”

***

Checking the last compartment port, I crossed the flight deck where the land-rover and speeder-bikes were housed. 

I halted. Not sure I was seeing what I was seeing.    

My space angel stood before me, so bright she blinded me, and then the glow dissipated.  “Find me.”   

The voice was faint. She dimmed.

 “Where are you? Who are you?”

“Aurora.”  

Just one word and she was gone, but I knew I was going to find her.  A deep certainty resonated within me.  Space angels, nor the world Ayestorm Wyndom were fables.

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March 2 question –

Have you ever been conflicted about writing a story or adding a scene to a story? How did you decide to write it or not?

My Answer:

I’m conflicted about my current story. It was never meant to be anything more than a flash fiction story. Making story decisions can be tough.

My article:

How To Write A Good Flash Fiction Piece?

I understood the world I was writing in, as I had created many shorts in it—world building is my thing. I always start with character and build from the inside out.

My trouble was finding my character’s long-term voice at first. I still struggle with my sidekick. I did not intend my story to be YA, but it is—again, story decisions.

So I am writing in a genre I am not totally comfortable in. However, I have been reading a lot of YA lately to get a better feel for it. I am very picky about my story, so had trouble finding great YA story that pulled me into the world, but I did.

Finding YA Book I like to read:

I found a few I am really enjoying that hooked me, but it was a search for me.

In my search, I came across Shade. I started reading and did not stop until chapter six, and only then because I had to do so. I read several before this one and was not impressed. So, I bought the whole series to read. This is a NY Times and USA Best-Selling author, which means she has experience capturing her audience. 

Reading Shade (Shade series Book 1) Marilyn Peak and also, Kingdom of Engines Nathan Van Coops.

I am also a pantser and linear writer. This story I have written, somewhat, out of order, not my natural writing style. Now I struggle a bit with transition scenes and the piecing together. Expansion, revision, and editing are a slow, painful process, but I will not give up.

Finding Character Voice:

The story decision to write this story always belonged to my characters. I write this story because my characters, though difficult, will not shut up. Especially Smoak, my sidekick. If you read my newsletter then you have been talking to Smoak as he has taken the newsletter writing over for now. He is insisting that I go back and rewrite my welcome letter in his voice. I may do that just have not had time yet.

So though I struggle with the long-term story voice, the voice in my head has no problem at all chatting my ear off.

In fact, in the last monthly newsletter, Smoak even shared his favorite movie.

Here is the excerpt from the newsletter:

Okay, on to the question, what is my favorite movie? My favorite movie is Avatar. The local inhabitants of the planet have tails. Tails are handy. Since I am a Fae Dragon Sprite, I have an awesome tail.  

In fact, you could say, I am downright dangerous with it when I can stay in my natural form. All too often, I have to shift into whatever form is needed or promotes safety. The way life and the planet is all connected and symbiotic makes me think of me and Remi. We are elemental bondmates. Our element is FIRE. Avatar 2 is coming December 2022. I can’t wait!     

Smoak even took a special place in the remake of my logo featured below.

My newsletter with my gift story, The Boon. This story is not related to my current story, which for now I am calling Project Atlantis.

I enrolled in Tammi Labrecque, The Newsletter Ninja’s, Cookie Challenge. We will be creating short stories or other choices for reader targeted opt-in related to our reader audiences. It starts March 7th; I am excited about it.

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