Like I said last year, I've never been a big fan of the New Year holiday. But last year I took a look at what I'd done in 2009 and what I wanted to do in 2010 and read a few of Maggie Stiefvater's butt-kicking posts, and decided to make some resolutions ( Read more... )

This is probably uninteresting to everyone but me, but I finally gave up on finding the perfect Wings & Fangs icon & made one from a pic I had saved on my desktop & a line of song lyrics I thought fit the book(s) pretty perfectly ( Read more... )

I'm writing my synopsis. Yes, still. I have a, um, "working" draft (it's 7 pages, single-spaced and Not Viable to Send to Anyone), but I'm having issues whittling it down and making it enticing.

I can make a few paragraphs sound good, but I keep getting tripped up by details. I want a 1 to 1 1/2 page synopsis, and yet I find myself continuously ( Read more... )

Usually that title would mean I'm talking about my goals for revision. This time, however, I'm revising my December goals ( Read more... )

Sorry for the total lack of entries lately (except for a couple super-f-locks-- thanks for all the help, ppls!), but I decided I really was going to go for my JoNo goals & I finished my second draft of WINGS AND FANGS: BEWITCHED yesterday afternoon ( Read more... )

I'm close to hitting Chapter 30*.

This is the chapter that derailed me for at least a month, maybe more, on my last draft. It's a lot of talky-talky and I knew it was a lot of talky-talky, which made it all the worse ( Read more... )

I'm still undecided as to whether or not this will be a good thing for me, but so far, I'm leaning toward good ( Read more... )

So, I've taken in everyone's feedback regarding NaNo and my own weird dream in which I was driving a car in reverse & couldn't stop it (which I took to mean something...), and have decided not to NaNo ( Read more... )

We're rapidly approaching National Novel Writing Month, more commonly known as November ( Read more... )

Sorry to be MIA from LJ-land for a while. I knew I was going to start posting less the further into my revision I get, but I've had a few Real Life things going on lately ( Read more... )