For the last few days I've limped back into the flow of writing "Firehorse." The court chapters still suck, and so does some of the new linking work, but that's okay for shitty first draft. Meanwhile, I've found a way to bridge back into a stronger, previously written chapter I'd thought I would have to discard. So the last few days total of 7500 ( Read more... )

The good news is that school has resumed and so has my writing. 1000 words today ( Read more... )

...but in a bit of a muddle, so rather behind on Livejournal. Will try to catch up tomorrow. Firehorse is progressing again, which is good news.

I've excised more than 100 pages (22,000 Word count) from the novel, and wow does that hurt. Let's see how much can be used in my new plan ( Read more... )

I went to see HP last night and I enjoyed it. I thought the director and script writer did a very good job of compressing the storylines and selecting what was most important from teh book, and didn't mind the odd merge-and-tweak. Harry's first kiss - awh ( Read more... )

Death in the family + funeral + sick child + spouse overseas = 1 exhausted, overwhelmed and non-functional writer.

Bleh. I'm writing this weekend off to get some rest (the antibiotics have kicked in and the munchkin should be able to sleep tonight.)

It's been a weird weekend ( Read more... )

Right now my main character wouldn't wee on me if I was on fire. And she's a fire fighter ( Read more... )

5 pages for Wednesday and part of Thursday in which my firefighting hero has been accused of colluding with fire elementals, sabotage, encouraging a deadly fire and has been publicly fired from her job. The bad guys have destroyed her reputation, trashed the job she loves and made it dangerous for her to stay in the city she wants to protect. They' ( Read more... )

I'm finding it hard to get back into my usual routines, thanks to a problem with my foot (no dancing - wah!) and a totally sludgy brain. "Firehorse" has been languishing at 70% written for over a month now, so I used novel_in_90 to give myself a kick in the butt and get back to it ( Read more... )