Haha, just finished writing the last chapter of Shadowlands. It clocks in at 3,491 words right now, pending editing. It's almost twice the length of any of the other chapters, so I will need to consider whether or not it should be two chapters. And I got in all the stuff I had long planned for it, and some stuff came up that, WHAT?! Where did ( Read more... )

Shadowlands word count: 989. A bit less than half a chapter, but I'm just going to make myself keep adding a bit each day and refining what's already there until the story is done ( Read more... )

There's a meme which occasionally goes around my tumblr which details the motivations for one's actions, an overwhelming percentage of which is spite ( Read more... )

Normally I think my classmates in my writing class are relatively intelligent, sane people. Well, with a possible caveat for the one person who takes Fox News seriously ( Read more... )

I... am probably not going to be posting any fics on Christmas Day this year. I want to, I just don't have the time/energy/concentration to write. The reason I've been doing so much quilting this year is that sewing is a creative outlet that withstands interruptions. Being dragged away from the machine by tiny hands? No big deal. I can pick up ( Read more... )

So I've been in a Halloween-y mood recently. (Wonder why. ^_^) Today's reading material was Pratchett's Johnny and the Dead, which left me with thoughts about its relations to Good Omens and The Graveyard Book.

I've also (finally, finally!) been back in a writing headspace. Which I haven't done much of today because of The Squiddle. But ( Read more... )

Oh fracking frackNew realization for Field of Stars happened in my sleep. Characters A and B left the country to the north for my main country some years ago. Character B had a toddler (father known, and sort-of dead; out of the running anyway) and was pregnant at the time. Has had serial lovers since, and children by some of them ( Read more... )

Squiddle's taking an early nap today. I should be on the bike right now, but I just can't. I've been being very good about doing it five days a week, but I'm also suspecting that's what's causing the persistent ache in my left calf, and until I can stretch that away, I'm giving myself some slack ( Read more... )

Broke my refrigerator tea jug yesterday, all over the kitchen floor. Right after I'd filled the jug, of course. On the upside, at least it was the plastic jug, not one of the glass ones I actually brew the tea in. And at least the kitchen floor is now much, much cleaner! But this means I'm now putting the glass brewing jug in the fridge, and it ( Read more... )

December ended up being a decided no go on the novel writing thing (though I did manage to squeeze out three fanfic chapters for Christmas), mainly because of the Squiddle being jealous of &/or wanting to use the laptop himself. That being said, this morning I managed a page and a bit of novel writing (343 words) before everyone came downstairs ( Read more... )