So what happened was, yes, I literally did fall off the face of the planet.  Sorry.  It took me a spaceship, Loki's curly cap, and whatever the hell they replaced the Rainbow Bridge with to get back to Midgaard.  There were trolls involved.  It was messy.

No, but seriously.  I haven't been posting because I was writing, and when I wasn't writing I ( Read more... )

I have been AWOL for the week, but mainly because it's been a frustrating one with not a lot of time to myself, and even when I did get that time to myself, I wasn't in much of a mood for writing.  And yet.  I still managed to get some (comfort) writing done.

Anyway, a couple of weeks back, camelot_drabble had a challenge called Whispers In The Night, and mushroomtale  ( Read more... )

Nothing about worldbuilding is quick or easy, so anything I write about it might end up being a multi-parter sort of thing, starting with the bare bones of worldbuilding and how to get started -- or at least, how I get started. It may or may not work for you.

( Part One: How to get started )

Well, I got the laundry and the groceries done.  Ditto the kitchen cleanup.  It was noon before I realized I hadn't had anything to eat, so I had a sandwich and watched Warrior (IMdb link) -- a movie about two brothers in a broken family who end up fighting each other in a mixed martial arts tournament that completely distracted me from doing any ( Read more... )

I didn't forget to post yesterday's metrics -- I was distracted by the Wrecking Ball post.  By the time it was posted, it was late and I'd gone and scramble to bed to try to restore some neural activity to make it through the day today.

But, anyway.  Yesterday I pulled off a healthy 3,000 words, and today, I replicated the feat with another 3,000 ( Read more... )

I think it's safe to say that in a bout of not feeling well, and being generally anti-social for most of the weekend, that I neglected to update the metrics.

Thursday: 2,500
Friday: 2,000
Saturday: 3,500
Sunday: 3,500

I think somewhere in there, I managed to finish one chapter and most of another.  I say "most", because I need to research some things ( Read more... )

Before I get into the metrics, I'd like to begin with a brief public service announcement:

If, at any time after chopping up some habanero peppers (without gloves, because you are tough) for the bean paste for the quesadillas that you're making for dinner, you feel compelled to scratch the corner of your eye, or lick your fingers, or scratch at an ( Read more... )

I decided to test the theory that I could avoid getting bitten by yet another plot bunny, this one for the Merlin Big Bang, by writing the first scene to get it out of my head.  In doing that, I re-discovered the reason why I do not let my inner editor out from the dungeons until I'm finished writing something.

It has to do with linecrafting, and ( Read more... )

So, to yesterday's 3,000 words, which I didn't post about because I was in a foul mood, I'm adding today's 2,500 (2,513, if you want to be picky), and calling it quits.  Not because I'm having leftovers generously flavoured in more foulness this fine evening, but because I'm terribly angry and tense and murderous, and it's not quite the right ( Read more... )

Whether I like it or not, I have been forced in a no-writing mode this week for several reasons -- the least of which is not the migraine that hit yesterday, which remained impervious to every painkiller known to mankind (though I haven't yet resorted to the last failsafe: cutting my head off), and continues today.

My head is in a bit of a dull, ( Read more... )