theidiotmachine

Hey! I’m mostly off Wattpad now. However, the volume of spam bots has brought me back for this announcement!
          
          First, please report and block the bots. WP still seem to listen to this! There are kids here, so let’s all try and kick off the nastiness.
          
          Second, make sure your password is unique and strong! Some of these bots look like hijacked users. I bet they used the same password on multiple sites and hackers found it from a data dump. Don’t do the same thing!
          
          Enjoy your lives until I next post which will be in like 2034 when we’re all dead?

Hey, happy new year! 
          
          I’ve been quiet recently, but I have some news. I edited, rewrote, improved and then published my Idiot’s Guide! It’s now a real book. It’s called Edit Like You Stole It, and you can buy it here https://www.amazon.com/Edit-Like-You-Stole-fiction-ebook/dp/B0CTHRV81M (or in your local Amazon or even on other book websites).
          
          This means, sadly, I need to delete it from Wattpad.
          
          I couldn’t have done this without the Wattpad crew. In particular, @Bhashini, @hrb264, @lyttlejoe, @Nyhterides, @potatoturnipbean, and @wdhenning thank you so much for the feedback. I am so appreciative to you that if you mail me at theidiotmachine at gmail dot com with your physical address, I will send you a free copy for you to, I don’t know, prop open an interior door or something.
          
          I got more stuff coming too. I’ll make sure I let you all know what happens with that! Hope the new year brings you as much fun as I would like to have myself. Or something.
          
          Bye!

Congrats on your story making it into the Fantasy Anthology series volume 2.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/227586697?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details&wp_uname=Romizabooks

So I was out over  summer, and then I injured myself in a depressingly stupid way which prevented me from updating... and now I'm back, with all my robot limbs fully functional. And I'm looking for a way to get back into writing.
          
          So...  I had this idea. 
          
          Colabs. Has anyone actually managed one? If I was to try and find one, is that just a nightmare waiting to happen, or have you all been in a long and happy writing partnership that keeps you going?
          
          What do we all think?

Thanks so much for the follow! I appreciate it:)

I entered the Wattys for the first time! Now the waiting game begins. And man, I totally lost half the pieces of that game, I use Monopoly houses instead? It's why I'm so bad at it
          
          Good luck to everyone else!

I normally post on a Friday with an update... But today I have nothing! I'm writing -- duh -- but none of it's ready for the big time. It's all just words, some of which I like, in an order that I don't, like a sausage without a rocket launcher. Or something. 
          
          Anyway. I just wanted to wish you all a lovely weekend! Enjoy.

I did it. The Wattys open in 5 days, so now I need to get on with loglines and summaries and all that junk... But right now I can bask in the glow of finishing Star. I edited like a demon and I'm really happy with the result.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/369632087-the-song-of-a-poisoned-star
          
          If you've been waiting for it to be finished, now is the time to take the plunge? If you were reading along... man you have a wild ride ahead of you.
          
          Right, I'm off to watch the footy! Hope the rest of the week goes well!

I've not been very good at announcing these, and I'm sorry, but as you may know most months I write a story for Tevun Krus, the SF zine run by @Ooorah. This month it's about the Mandela Effect: the idea that we're all gripped by collective false memories. I really struggled to get my story down to a decent length -- it's like 6k words which is a shockingly long story for a single WP chapter -- and might have been better off as a novella. Having said that, this one's enough of a labour of love that now I've slogged through researching and writing it, I'm pretty proud of it, and you might like it too?
          
          There's other great stuff there too, from all my favourite writers!
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/372495617-tevun-krus-123-the-mandela-effect
          
          In other news, I finally finished Star on my laptop. Assuming no disasters, I foresee some frenzied uploading in my not-too-distant future...

The rain stripes the windows and the sun shivers behind a thick, grey duvet of cloud. The birds and commuters are hiding under whatever shelter they can find, silent, watching. All except me, who doesn't have an umbrella or a coat, and come now, what's a British June without some drizzle? 
          
          I am soooo behind. The wattys opens on the fifteenth I haven't finished the final edit on my laptop (although I only have two thousand words to go), and I am behind on posting, too. But that's okay! It just means you get four chapters today. Four! I've heard of episodic posting, and I laugh at it, the way that I laugh at the rain which will soon be running down my neck and splashing around my feet.
          
          In those chapters all sorts of things happens. And if you read them, you can find out what!
          
          Have a lovely weekend, folks! 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/369632087-the-song-of-a-poisoned-star