I went off this afternoon to write and meet up with a friend, and accomplished some 3750 words before our meeting. I was pretty sure I’d broken through the Novelist’s Event Horizon, and thought maybe if I went back to write a little more, I could finish MAGIC & MANNERS sometime tomorrow. So I went back and blew through 2000 words in an hour (that’s ( Read more... )

I had an absolutely lovely, quiet day off yesterday, and am feeling roughly 23425098707 million times more relaxed than I was, say, 48 hours ago. I could use a full body massage, possibly one daily for a month or so, but that’s pretty typical for me. I’m so much more relaxed, though, that it would probably do some /good/, which I’m not sure it ( Read more... )

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a draft.

It’s a little short at 97K, but there are scenes I need to go back and add (at least 3 of them) and a bunch of clean-up work to do before I turn it in, but that’s a draft. Which means I am officially Out Of Contract (eeee!) and On Vacation for the remainder of 2010.

Yeah, yeah, I’ve got to do the clean- ( Read more... )

WAYFINDER is signed, sealed and delivered. Or more like revised, spellchecked and delivered, but it’s DONE. Done done DONE.

One book left to write, and then half a year OFF*.

thinks to do:
Feb 19: WAYFINDER due
Apr 15: SPIRIT DANCES due
Jun 30: New book proposals due

*You people keep disbelieving I can take half a year off. For the record, I define ( Read more... )

Five weeks and ninety thousand words later, DEMON HUNTS is *done*.

I was very, very determined to finish it today. 5700 word day, and I was writing scenelets all over the damned place hoping they’d add up to something I could stitch together and make the end of the book. They did. :)

Buuuunches of work to go back and do to actually make the whole ( Read more... )

I have done jack all today on this book. So I’m now going behind the cut tag and live-blogging the writing of the last chapter.

I have no idea what this will entail. Wordcounts, I guess.

For something more interesting, go read today’s interview with me over at Bitten By Books. There are 5 PRETENDER’S CROWN ARCs in the running for commentors, so go ( Read more... )

I have just wrapped up CAULDRON BORNE (or whatever it’s going to be called) at an unusually short 103,000 words. This is the first time I’ve ever had a book come in short (the Walker Papers are supposed to be 110K), but it’ll no doubt grow a bit in revisions, and perhaps it coming in a little short makes up for PRETENDER’S CROWN being 180K. :)

This ( Read more... )

TWO. HUNDRED. THOUSAND. WORDS!

Jesus flipping Christ. I only wrote 265K *total* last year. I will be well past that by *June* this year. Jesus flipping Christ.

Oh, also? THE PRETENDER’S CROWN is done. I’ve still got to rewrite the prologue per editor request, which is tomorrow’s job, but the last chapters and the epilogue are finished. 724 pages ( Read more... )

I don't think I've felt this generally pleased to face the day in months.

It's not that I don't still have a lot to do. In fact, I have enormous overwhelming amounts to do, including but not limited to, and more or less in order:

- fix any NOTES in HoF, spellcheck, and submit it
- do THE QUEEN'S BASTARD proofs
- buy Christmas/greeting cards so I ( Read more... )

Done.

488 pages. 113,105 words.

I may have ice cream for dinner and go to bed. :)

(eta: I just counted. HANDS OF FLAME is my fifteenth completed novel & eleventh for publication. Jesus God!)