JennaJones.com

This is only a test post.

Edit: The good news is, the Livejournal/Wordpress crossposting plugin is much better than the last version I used, so I expect to use it far more often and keep these entries a bit more in sync.

The bad news is, there is no bad news. Or is that good news? Though I suppose if I use this blog more often as an actual blog and less as an announcement-only kind of thing, that might be bad news . . . if you find that kind of thing irritating, which some people do . . . I dunno, I’m just here to have a good time.

I’ve decided to remove the links to retailers from the books’ pages. I can’t keep up! But all three of my books are available from numerous sources beyond Torquere Press directly.

I may make a retailers master list at some point, but I’m still making up my mind about that.

From Rainbow Reviews. Thanks, Jan!

If you’ll kindly look to the right of the layout, you’ll see my blogroll. Among the expected writer, editor and review sites, there’s a section called “My Places.” I thought it would be helpful to explain these a bit.

I Am Not a Foodie is a recipe collection site. As the name says, I’m not a foodie: I eat far too many burgers for that. But I do like experimenting now and again and collecting interesting (and simple!) recipes, so that’s the primary function of that site. I’ve also got a lot of family favorites added (with more to come when I get around to it) to preserve recipes that you can’t find in books and to share recipes I love (like Afton’s chocolate sauce. It is the best stuff ever.) I also accept contributions of other people’s recipes, because variety is fun.

Jenna Jones @ Livejournal doesn’t get updated as much as this blog does, because I am lazy. I mostly use it when I host the torquere_social community blog.

MissLucyJane.com is my fanfiction/free fiction. I’ve been writing fanfic since 1997 (longer offline–I’ve got a couple ST:TNG stories on paper somewhere) and I’ve put up most of my old favorites and all my newer stuff. If you’ve ever wondered how I learned to write, the answer is there: by writing a lot.

My del.icio.us is a bookmarks service. My interests and research at-a-glance.

Project Wiki is a personal wiki where I’m planning to collect all the background information for my stories, so I have a centralized location for them. There’s not a lot of information there currently. Most of it is open to editing by anyone, as with other wikis, though of course I reserve the right to reject irrelevant/erroneous information.

Shop @ CafePress, should you ever have a burning need for a Gallaghers bakery t-shirt or barbecue apron.

There you have it: the other stuff I do online.

First, an FYI: I’m redoing the categories and tags for the site, trying to neaten them up. I apologize for any inconvenience.

Now, for the Deep Thoughts:

When I’m writing a first draft, I prefer to write it straight through rather than skip around in the timeline. I look on a first draft as a draft of discovery: this is where the characters tell you what’s going on with them, and I usually have good luck with this. I’ll discover things or think of things that I never would if I were following a strictly rigid outline. (All of my outlines, when I make them, always have a portion that says “some stuff happens here.” There’ll be plot before and plot after, but there’s always a nebulous space where I have to figure out how the characters get from Point A to Point C.)

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