This week I’ve been revising and polishing another story. This one…well, I like a lot of the imagery in it, and generally speaking I like the plot, and I am in love with the setting (because hey, how often do you get to write a dark fantasy story set in …
I’m in crisis over TLF. It is such a bloody mess right now. Last week I was trying to work out plotting on it and stuff, because I’ve decided to go back in time from where I started the last draft, and I think it needs to be two books, …
Original fic projects Revise FTGGI and find a new title for it. Maybe Shaper of Shadows would work…? Shaper? I don’t usually like one-word titles as much, though. Submit the story that Winter Raven was going to publish before they went under (“A Delicate Balance”). Submit “Warleader” somewhere “Tricksters Without …
Dear flist, I am sorry I am so far behind in LJ/IJ-land. I’m sorry to the people I usually chat with that I’ve been non-chatty or not around lately. I’m in my winter funk, I think. Or something. Anyway, I’m still alive, I had a “Grey Street” moment today (Hey, …
Magic Lost, Trouble Found – Lisa Shearin (a present from krycek_chick!!) Captain’s Fury – Jim Butcher The Goblin Wood – Hilari Bell Austenland – Shannon Hale Book of a Thousand Days – Shannon Hale Iron Kissed – Patricia Briggs Rendezvous With Rama – Arthur C. Clarke Coyote Road – ed …
There were times I wasn’t sure what I was doing, and I will never again change horses mid-stream during November, but I have validated my novel! In the course of validating, I always scramble my text, because I am an uber-paranoid nerd. It was so much fun seeing character names …
Oh man, I finally actually went to bed around 10 (added a lot more to my word count though!) and got up at one point during the day to use the toilet, get some water, check my email, then I collapsed again until 6. And now I can’t move my …
Woohoo! Another breakthrough tonight. Of course I’m not writing things in any kind of order, but still, it’s good to get words out. 48490 / 50000 words. 97% done!
Realized I haven’t updated this in a while. Saturday I did 2400 words, Sunday 2200, Monday 1000. Tuesday night (into Wednesday morning) was a good night, with about 6,000 words. Tonight I managed another 1650. 35967 / 50000 words. 72% done! So I’m doing pretty well on NaNo, though it’s …