{"id":250,"date":"2012-01-26T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harperkingsley.wordpress.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:38:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:38:36","slug":"upcoming-covers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/upcoming-covers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#amwriting Or at least, I&#8217;m *trying* to write. Too bad the world keeps sucking me away :("},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bought the Blu Ray of &#8220;Kingdom of Heaven.&#8221; It&#8217;s such a great movie that I can&#8217;t believe it didn&#8217;t do any better in the theater. It must have looked truly awesome on the big screen. Beautiful scenery, an engaging story, and Orlando Bloom was incredibly hot in this movie; Liam Neeson wasn&#8217;t too bad either for an old dude ^_^; Lots of sword action and the extended edition has a whole sidestory that is pretty fascinating too.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anyways, badly trying to write, but I&#8217;ve been easily distracted for the last TWO MONTHS. It&#8217;s the worst thing ever. No matter what I try to do, every little thing just creeps into my head and has me going &#8220;I&#8217;ll get back to writing later.&#8221; Which I don&#8217;t until the next day and I&#8217;m totally behind on my word counts which makes me very <em>very<\/em> sad \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>I think what I honestly need is private work space. As it is, people are always trying to talk to me while I&#8217;m writing and telling me all kinds of stupid things that I don&#8217;t really care about. But I just don&#8217;t want to say anything because that would be rude, so I just kind of put up with it. Also, please stop making so much noise when you eat. There&#8217;s no way I want to hear a constant stream of &#8220;Um, yum, um, nom, nom, nom&#8221; like all the time. So gross.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve gotten that bit of angst off my chest, here&#8217;s a life update (or something like it):<\/p>\n<p>Working on:<br \/>\nThe Brand [HK] m\/m sci-fi\/fantasy.<br \/>\nFiends [SC] m\/m supernatural.<br \/>\nHyacinth [HK] m\/f contemporary.<br \/>\nAltredes [LB] m\/f fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Also I&#8217;m working on some stuff for anthologies. I&#8217;ll keep the world apprised of what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought the Blu Ray of &#8220;Kingdom of Heaven.&#8221; It&#8217;s such a great movie that I can&#8217;t believe it didn&#8217;t do any better in the theater. It must have looked truly awesome on the big screen. Beautiful scenery, an engaging story, and Orlando Bloom was incredibly hot in this movie; Liam Neeson wasn&#8217;t too bad either&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/upcoming-covers-2\/\" title=\"#amwriting Or at least, I&#8217;m *trying* to write. Too bad the world keeps sucking me away :(\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#amwriting Or at least, I&#8217;m *trying* to write. Too bad the world keeps sucking me away :(<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,55],"tags":[419,618,794],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","has-more-link","post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-journal-2","category-real-life","tag-journal","tag-rl","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-42","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":218,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/writing-editing-and-watching-tv\/","url_meta":{"origin":250,"position":0},"title":"Writing, editing, and watching TV","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"January 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been trying my hand at watercolor painting. It has not been going well at all :( While I have the eye of a great artist, I have the drawing\/painting skills of a less than third grader. It is very sad. There's so many things I want to be able\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Journal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Journal","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/journal-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":144,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/some-dino-thing\/","url_meta":{"origin":250,"position":1},"title":"Some dino thing","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"November 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Currently watching some dinosaur thing. Makes me want to watch \"Evolution,\" that movie with David Duchovny (sp? I used to know when I was reading Mulder\/Krycek slash). It's some pretty interesting stuff and I can see why some authors are drawn to the idea of writing \"Terra Nova\" type stories.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Real Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Real Life","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/real-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":150,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/writing-updateprocrastinators-diary\/","url_meta":{"origin":250,"position":2},"title":"Writing update\/Procrastinator&#8217;s Diary","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"November 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm desperately trying to get into writing my NaNoWriMo, but I've also got a ton of other projects going on all at once. Why? Because I like to think that I'm good with a deadline whipping me on (how naughty! As well as untrue...) Anyways, I'm trying to get some\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Journal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Journal","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/journal-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":623,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/why-i-write\/","url_meta":{"origin":250,"position":3},"title":"Why I Write","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"April 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Why do I write? Because writing makes me happy and gives me something I desperately crave - an outlet for all of the people and worlds living in my head. Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. -F. Scott Fitzgerald To be honest,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Journal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Journal","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/journal-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":302,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/i-hope-that-everyone-that-has-bought-one-of-my-books-has-enjoyed-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":250,"position":4},"title":"I hope that everyone that has bought one of my books has enjoyed it.","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"February 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Random babble. PB&J, yo. Right now I'm just trying to get my life together. So many personal problems have severely depleted my funds, which means we're living at my dad's house right now. There's plenty of room, but when I left home I never planned having to return with my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Appreciations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Appreciations","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":458,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/its-early-oclock-in-the-morning-and-i-felt-like-saying-something-amwriting\/","url_meta":{"origin":250,"position":5},"title":"It&#8217;s early o&#8217;clock in the morning and I felt like saying *something* #amwriting","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"February 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"There have been times when stories appear in my brain fully formed and all I have to do is write them down. That's how \"Laughing Curse\" has struck me; I dreamt the story last night and now it's bouncing around in my brain. The only thing I wish is that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Journal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Journal","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/journal-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6521,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/6521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}