A Far Out Fantastic Site

This is going to be a short post because I had a family reunion going over the weekend and so have had to really squeeze in my writing time in bits and pieces. "Bad Apps", my upcoming book of short stories has been keeping me busier than ever, especially since I'm coming to the completion of the book. So, I've been having to keep the blog posts down to one a month, with the exception of the Insecure Writer's Support Group blog hop, in which the next one is coming this Wednesday, October the first. Yes, we will be into the Halloween season in only a couple of days! And to start it off, there will be a re-release of a classic Frankenstein film which will be followed by a new Frankenstein film the following month! I'll talk about those in this post. I also have a little bit of an update for "Bad Apps", so keep reading! Movie poster for "The Curse of Frankenstein"  Credit: Wikimedia Commons 4K Version of Classic Hammer Frankenstein Film Releasi...

It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) blog hop! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions. In this post, I have some progress to report on my book-in-the-making, “Bad Apps”, which is a collection of stories about weird and deadly apps. I’m also answering the IWSG optional question of the month. So, keep reading! The IWSG Monthly Question The IWSG question for September is: What are your thoughts on using AI, such as GPChat, Raptor, and others with your writing? Would you use it for research, storybible, or creating outlines\beats? As I've said in answer to similar questions to in past IWSG blog hops, I don't use generative AI to write my stories. That means I do not use it for the creative process of story writing which starts with the brainstorming of ideas and ends with the conceptual revisions such as deve...

I’ll start this post off with some of the latest on my book progress for my upcoming short story collection, " Bad Apps ". I finished, with the assistance of Grammarly, a round of grammar edits on the last of my stories for the book about a week ago and so was getting ready to do an oral-read revision that weekend. I only read full stories on paper, but my printer ran out of ink. But I bought a fresh ink cartridge and so am in the oral-revision stage where I’m reading it out loud to revise for sentence structure and other grammatical problems. I’m also in the planning stages for the book’s introduction. Pretty soon I’ll just need to get the book formatted and, after that, it should be ready to release for beta reading. If any of you are interested in beta reading "Bad Apps", email me at sarellanoroseATgmaildotcom . My post from 24 July 2022 gives more details about the beta reading.  Besides revising stories for "Bad Apps", I've been trying to catch u...

It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) blog hop! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions. I guess you can say I have one writing insecurity today, more like a guilt: Last month, except for the IWSG blog hop, I did not post anything at A Far Out Fantastic Site. As I had said before, I've been trying to concentrate more on getting "Bad Apps", my book of short stories, done. But I have some good news: Because of the sacrifice of my weekly blog posts (which is only temporary), I have made further progress on "Bad Apps". But some sacrifices are not so good. One is when a publisher publishes work for monetary gain alone, which is what I find a lot of the publishing industry doing today. I'll talk about that more in my answer to the IWSG's optional question of the month. So, keep reading! IWS...

It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) blog hop! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions. Today I’m going to just limit my post to answering the optional question of the month. I was busy all weekend writing my own post for A Far Out Fantastic Site and was doing it up to the very Monday I had been trying to post on a weekly basis. However, as I said a while back, I’ve had to ease off of the weekly blog posts and just post every other week or so. In addition to that, I have to also be more flexible of when I post because shooting for Mondays would cause me to have to stay up until 3 AM on early Sunday mornings and so it had been causing me to lose sleep during the week and to stress out. So, the post will not always come out on a Monday, and it won’t always be every week but possibly every two weeks. I discuss it more...

Posting-Schedule: Change in Frequency I have a book review of a vintage paperback this post. But before we go on to that, I want to let you know something about the posting frequency of A Far Out Fantastic Site. You may have already noticed me doing this, but I may have to post at random times of the week instead of on the usual Monday. Also, I may have to limit the posting to every other week instead of once a week which you may have also noticed I’ve already, more or less, been doing. The reason for these changes is because I need to give more time to my book of short stories, " Bad Apps ".   I've been trying to put together “Bad Apps” for the last three to four years. I've put off its release for too long, and so I need to give more time to working on it. So, if you don't see a post here at the Fantastic Site on a Monday, it doesn't necessarily mean I forgot. Rather, it just means that I've been backed up with the book among other things, some that are ...