specifically,
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On November 1, 2006, I wrote the first chapter of Every Light Casts A Shadow.

Today, I wrote the last.

It has taken me six years, 174,000 words, and innumerable pleas for encouragement and petting and reassurance, but finally it is done.

Obviously, I still have to edit it (and I am very, very lucky that
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So apparently, as much as I hate starting to work on Every Light, once I get started the words just happen ( Read more... )

1) I have apparently lost 4.2 pounds in the last 2 months. Despite not having done any formal workouts. AWESOME ( Read more... )

So, I got my 0tp prompts today. I like a lot of them and some of them are just hilarity-inducing; I'll post them up later (not appropriate for posting from work.)

However. There is a Kain/Ashe prompt. And while it is flowing very nicely, it is also CREEPING ME OUT.

Apparently BrokenWings!Kain has decided to show up for this one, too.

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I was reviewing my progress on Every Light in my head on the way home. The Super Major Plot Points are decreasing in number, but there's still a lot. To wit:

Fill-Ins (Stuff I Skipped During NaNo)
--Second half of Kain's Newsstand of Daddy Issues (thanks for that phrase, celeloriel, you rock ( Read more... )

Today's words were ridiculously hard and slow. However, I'm finally on the last scene of "Precipice," which is also the last batch of SRS POLITICS - there's one more intensely political scene, but I already know how that one's going to go thanks to celeloriel. "Fall" is all about tying up the things I've been setting up since the beginning of "Ascent," but ( Read more... )

Word Count: 21,716
Page Count: 53
Outline Quality: Adding subplots again (this si celeloriel’s fault entirely)
Soundtrack Quality: Tense rather than angsty
Scene Worked On Most Recently: “This is How We Do Justice Here”
Scene to be Worked On Next: Work Work Work, Day After Day/Teaching Jalen
Research of the Day: Royal we, again. fucking linguistic ( Read more... )

This song is heinously appropriate for the scenes I’ve been writing. And, kind of, for the rest of the book.


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