Somehow at the end of April I realized I was writing over 1000 words a day fairly consistently. I'd have a few days where I'd dip below, but overall, I was way over my original goal for the year of 250 words/ day. So when May started, and those first few days were over 1000, I was pleased. I decided to try for staying over a thousand for two weeks ( Read more... )

First, I want you all to go here and see the amazing trailer for BORN WICKED, premiered exclusively through Entertainment Weekly. It's pretty much the awesomest thing ever (er, after the book, of course ( Read more... )

Have I mentioned how much this book does not want to be written in order? *headdesk ( Read more... )

I set a number of goals for myself back in January. I put thought into them. I tried to make them uncomfortable but within my grasp if I worked hard enough ( Read more... )

So, this year I decided to unofficially attempt NaNoWriMo and try to write 50,000 words in November-- not to get into a new story, but to push through my revision of W&F1 ( Read more... )

I found Grover. :)

As I started editing the last chapter, iTunes started playing "Miracles Happen." Apparently iTunes had no faith in me until this point.

As I entered the last wordcounts into my spreadsheet, iTunes shuffled to "Beautiful Disaster." Good iTunes *pats computer*

Pre-Last-Read-Through Word Count? 107,228I lost 21,469 words from ( Read more... )

Yes, about that word count... It is now SHORTER!

Today I cut a section that did nothing but amuse me. Yes, I like Arion being snarky to Isis's mother (who totally deserves it). No, it had nothing to do with anything else. So out it went. And now?

My word count is just a hair over 113000!

Yeah, I know, I know, it's still "long for a YA" but it ( Read more... )

Haven't done this in a while, so here goes...

Wings and Fangs: Bewitched (draft one) tops out at...


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Books Purchased: 9 (half-price sale at my favorite used book store!)
Books Finished Reading: 1
Words Written: 1900

I think that's a decent start to the year :)

Around 3200 words (not counting random emails and such) later and my wrists hurt and I'm still not done with this darn story, but I think I've got 3 more chapters to go. Not positive on that number, but that's what it's looking like from where I am in the story right now ( Read more... )