I’ve been getting braver about letting people read what I write. It’s necessary. No one’s ever going to see it otherwise. I still foster the dream that one day something I write will be published, but I’m a realist. I’ll keep writing my little technical manuals for pay and writing my fiction for myself and whatever happens, happens. But I am finally starting to let people see what I’ve done, instead of just keeping it in a file on the computer to be deleted later in a fit of depression.

I’ve put some of it online at http://theninth.net and more will be added as more gets written.

A few warnings, though. I do occasionally venture into the realm of fanfiction, and not everything I write is worksafe, and might not be agreeable to all tastes. Each story is rated and a brief description is given so you can judge for yourself if you want to read it or not.

TheNinth.net is actually a subdomain of The Torrents website. The space already existed and was being paid for, so I thought I’d get a little use out of it as well. Nothing I’ll do will take up too much room, so it won’t intrude on Torrent space.

I got a three-page email from a friend of mine, giving me thoughts and feedback on the novel-length thing I’m working on. She found a lot of things I’d missed, asked great questions, and had some of the same problems that I’ve been having with the story but couldn’t articulate (because who wants to admit there’s a problem with their own writing?). I’ll be doing some heavy revisions this weekend and hopefully getting the first chapter into something so solid I won’t need to deal with it again until the whole thing is done and ready for “one last review”.

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