#BlogLife911 - Piggy or bully?

I wasn't paying close attention when I added the bulls in blanket to the shopping cart and my eyes aren't the sharpest, so it just seemed like mini beef sausages.

I thought it was the non red meat/pork version of pigs in a blanket but it looked plain at first.

Now that I've opened it up to cook 2 of them, in case I hate it, I can see it's wrapped in what looks like a rasher.

I took a picture of the ingredients enlarged it on my phone as it was too small and it says beef bacon...

I hope that's not beef and bacon, I've not seen or heard of beef rashers, I've tried chicken, ok, turkey, the best, the vegan ones, not bad.

So this will be interesting to see if it's seasoned, or overpowering. Looks like a fun snack or something to put out for a dinner party.

Crown Farms 12x£2 pretty good price for that many. I think I overcooked it at 20 minutes, the rasher bit is a lil too crispy but overall, it's a mild beefy taste.

It's actually quite nice. There's no pepper I was expecting that but it's different.

Lil bit salty, less is better but it adds to the flavour, maybe needs a lil dip too.

I did a mini Zoom shop as I was out of snacks and saw that the Buffalo chicken wrap was finally in stock, looking forward to trying that.

Wattpad has a lot of crap notifications about getting you to spend money and such but the important ones about your stories are non existent.

I'm not sure but I think it was a delightful surprise to see one of the holiday stories, rated with a star, as in they enjoyed it.

That gave me a boost. I can't recall if I saw before but it means something, most are unrated to be honest.

Here's a breakdown of it. Lethal Curves Ahead is unfinished and has had 26 views and no stars.

Faithless Pursuit is complete, has had 460 views/reads, no stars, a few comments by an acquaintance but as they deleted their account, the comments disappeared, which is unfair I think.

Paloma's Holiday Hijinks, the holiday story I was just referring too, 1 read, 1 star, which is sweet :) (It was short so I added it as one chapter).

Uncivilised Civilian has 42 views or reads and no stars.

Mr DJ Don't Play Me has 3 views or reads and nothing else.

Shenanigans With A Shifty Chef has 6 or 1 read, and 6 stars for each chapter. That's pretty kind.

How Mrs Claus Got Off The Naughty List has 43 views or reads and no stars.

And lastly Mr Cruise has nothing whatsoever but the interesting thing is Wattpad keeps giving some of them high ratings in the tags system.

On the blog, they roughly have about a 100 views or reads. I do want to carry on writing fiction, I just feel at the moment I am internally criticising myself and I can't seem to stop.

#BlogLife283 - Mystery courier

I hope you are all relaxing this weekend. Yesterday I had some missed calls claiming to be from Amazon Logistics about a parcel.

The number 07868 802 242 and Amazon themselves can't even tell me if the number is legitimate, which is frustrating. As is could be a scam.

I haven't ordered anything recently from them and I hope the seller hasn't sent me another set of earbuds, that is just overkill.

They said vaguely Logistics will be in touch if there is a redelivery to be made but I was hoping a few taps of the computer would have just shown if my address was tagged with a delivery.

The only thing I'm expecting because I forgot to buy it is Creightons face wash but that's apparently coming with Royal Mail. I don't recall the brand so it will be fun to review it later.

My elbows are back to cracking so when I asked for a recommendation, the answer cocoa butter came up. I'm not that keen, it's very pricey and is hit and miss for me, plus the smell is just not my favourite.

The consistency in the body butter tub has gotten worse, now it's this thick oily, hard to scoop solid matter, it's not creamy, more waxy.

I suppose if it moisturises deeply, that will be something but I prefer Dove, smells nicer and is easier to use.

I remember everyone falling over themselves to buy it but I always thought it was overrated personally.

I do hate shopping for body butters though, hardly any of them are legitimate. They are supposed to be dense and hydrating but very few are.

I find most are just lotions and bad ones at that. Too thin and simplistic for any good to come out of it.

I don't know whether to get another mini fan, the nights and evenings are quite warm and the one I have takes ages to charge, when it can be bothered to restore itself.

I'll definitely get a fast charger next time. I don't seem to have any issues with that, so far.

I'm still buzzing from posting BookLife onto wattpad and filling in all the details.

Shenanigans With A Shifty Chef, got the first read and all 6 chapters got a vote, which was touching :)

The rest not so much but I realised what I did wrong. When promoting on social media, give a blurb about the story and tag it but I feel with tags, it just seems too much.

On wattpad itself, you can never have too many tags though, they recommend just going to town with that. I suppose it will broaden the potential audience for you.

It just feels like I started off not communicating at all and now I'm divulging more and more.

You might think it's strange for me to be so surprised by it but I didn't think I would get to this place so to see how I've developed is exciting for me.

I hate writing the taglines and book descriptions and the covers are a lot. I can't seem to make mine look smarter.

The pictures I like but choosing the font style from hundreds is just a headache.

I'm probably not choosing the right words or placing the title accurately but I'm learning as I go and one day maybe I'll figure it out.

I'll leave you with this thought, You know why it's so strange to have a package when I've not ordered something??

It's because I haven't sent anyone a gift to be reciprocated back. I'm always someones afterthought, for me to get something from them, first I have to go out of my way to surprise them.

Then they feel obligated to return the favour. That's why it's difficult to see myself as lovable at times.

Nobody seems to see me that way and no I am not asking to be pampered.

I'm asking to be seen, thought of, missed, cared for and yes loved.

Well the courier just came and went. It was the face wash I ordered, wow, that was quick.

It threw me off because they said Royal Mail was sending it but it's here now and I can have some peace.

I'll do a write up later when the other wash is finished. Oh and I've my period yet again. I wonder if it will be yet another 1 day event??

Wattpad story completion!!

I'm still buzzing. I was half gaming, half rewatching Moonlighting for the billionth time and suddenly I wanted to write.

First I loaded up Blogger, attempting a fiction post and a second later. I thought nope. 

I'll go on Wattpad and see if inspiration hits. I've been avoiding finishing it, not knowing if its been worth my time but it was a dream of mine so I persisted on and off for years.

My process is while I am staring at the page, I have a vague idea about what I'll write but it never turns out the way I think it will.

I say to myself okay, this is the direction I see it going in. I make notes for plot ideas and just work around that notion.

The moment I start writing though, words are dancing in my head and my gut takes over from my brain.

Is that normal? Who am I supposed to be listening too? I've been going with my gut because it just spills out of me, more naturally. 

I usually write half or a whole chapter nowadays before I would write the night away but not publish until the morning.

Tonight I thought. Alright I seem to be super inspired so even if it's changing directions again..

Ill go with it and that will be it but as I finished that chapter. It finally dawned on me, how to end it.

Some bits of ideas I kept and the rest discarded. I haven't set it to *status complete* until I finish some small edits.

But the fictional story is written in its entirety. I thought I was going to feel anxious and sad but I feel great. 

Love it or hate it. I'm not sure I'm fussed but it'll always be my first baby and I'm proud and thrilled its finally done.

I'll leave a link but don't feel obligated to read or comment. It was a passion project. Hopefully some humour injected and a story that makes sense lol :D

I was beginning to think I would never do it but I overcame it. Very satisfying feeling.

I'm going to try and attempt some sleep. Although, one game of scrabble might be played first.. 

I deserve a treat :) Strange I didn't even make it to 40 chapters by 38 it had wrapped itself up.

I'm going to leave this as a draft and then when my edits are done. I'll put the link in, it's already on Twitter but I'm not sure how many of you use that.

By the way I put a mature rating on it, not because there is smut. There isn't any. I did it for the mature themes and slight violence.

I just wanted to cover myself in case it got flagged.

What is it about? A mystery woman who isn't who she appears to be and two men who arrive with agendas. Are they trustworthy?

Will they be good or bad guys? Who will she pick in the end?

https://www.wattpad.com/story/37953079-faithless-pursuit

Theme tweaks

Sorry I am still trying to get it right. This theme is definitely on the right side of the look I want to achieve, just not sure if I will keep it. At least the words seem to be displaying properly and not overly spaced which was annoying me to no end.

It has a splash of colour. The tagline is clear and easy to read. I'm not especially keen on the grey but the image and green seem to pop. It seems to display fine on the mobile too.

To me it's is clean without being clinical.

I just don't know :/

I also just updated my Wattpad book cover from a shapely headless woman to a couple in a silhoutte and managed to add the book name. I couldn't do anything fancy, the canva tool was too complicated and I couldn't even save the new image. I know it's still simple but now at least it has a little style and fits with the title.

I had another crack at it and managed to tweak it so now both books have covers. I just have to finish them now.

I have now written twenty seven chapters and can't see it going past forty. I changed all the chapter titles to something less provocative because even though I have marked it as mature to cover myself as there is a little violence and some non graphic intimate moments. It was never intended to be a smutty book, just a romantic adventure with more than one male lead.