Well, I was never gonna get 7500 words done today, and in the end I decided to make it a usual not-writing day because I have 3 writing days coming up and trying to kill myself getting it done today just seemed dumb. So much as I wanted it to be, the book is not done today. OTOH, this is because it's heading in for 20% over its projected length, ( Read more... )

For Mother's Day (it's Mother's Day today on this side of the pond) I got to take a mini writing retreat to Galway, where my sister's musical was also premiering. I hopped on the train at 11am on Saturday morning and by 6pm had 8K written and was in such a zone that if I hadn't had evening arrangements I'd have probably stayed right where I was and ( Read more... )

I have to revise something. I don’t have to do it now, because it’s not structural for the book, but rather for the series. But the damned book is giving me fits, and I wish to hell it wasn’t.

We had a quiet day today, only going to the Citadel again to do some souvenir shopping. I ended up with a bunch of pottery, which is really my favorite ( Read more... )

If this was actually Nanowrimo, I would be THRILLED. Instead, well. At least I think I’m unstuck now.



40035 / 70000 words. 57% done!

(x-posted from the essential kit)

I still wasn’t feeling the love on this wretched book, and said so to Ted, and explained where I was in the story. He said, “No, have X show up doing something X isn’t supposed to,” and I stared at him and went and deleted another 3300 damned words, and after a 4K day, I am just about 500 words past where I was yesterday. Mghglhghgl.



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So I got up to work this morning but still wasn’t feeling the love. There are scenes in this book that I suspect are snowstorms, which-

-years and years ago, my writing partner Sarah/shadowhwk and I wrote a book together. I wrote a wonderful snowstorm scene. It was a chapter long. Sarah cut it to two pages. Then it got cut to a page. In the end, it was two ( Read more... )

If you will recall, I gave away four ARCs of BABA YAGA’S DAUGHTER on the condition that the winners review the collection and make their reviews publicly available. Mela-Lyn has posted the first of these. Thank you, Mela!

Today was something of a flop on the writing front. Last night in my haste to finish up, I made a bad storytelling choice (I ( Read more... )

“I’m going to go outside and write another 800 words,” I said, picking up my laptop a moment ago.

“How many will that put you at?” the audience enquired politely.

“35,000,” I said.

There was a pause while everyone stared at me, as they knew I finished yesterday at 25.5K. “How many words to 35,000?” asked my mother.

“Eight hundred,” I said, and a ( Read more... )

The Tesla Museum crowdfund broke a million dollars yesterday. Everything they make above and beyond money to purchase the land will go to preparing the land, building the museum-however far the money will take them, that’s how far they’ll go. Me, I’m hoping it hits $2.5m.

Yesterday or the day before I said to Ted that I was having a strange ( Read more... )

Churchbells ring like crazy at a quarter to eight, here. It gives one the impression that the village had best be up and about by now, not lying around like lazy slug-a-beds. :)

We had not planned any French Adventures yesterday, as my parents were arriving for their part of this vacation. I’d thought I could get quite a lot of writing done. Sadly ( Read more... )