Unladylike Adventures of All Sorts
Thanks so much to everyone who sent lovely feedback about my latest story via email/twitter/facebook/etc! I really appreciated hearing it. :) "The Unladylike Education..." is probably my personal favorite of all of my published stories so far, so it's made me really happy to see it get a new life online!
I've been charging ahead on my Kat novella, "Courting Magic", this past week, and I've gotten to that delicious stage where it's really taken over my head and I find myself thinking about it ALL the time, in-between washing dishes, watching dinosaur documentaries with MrD, reading Astrosaur novels to him, etc. Yesterday, since it was a Sunday, my big writing goal was just to somehow manage to squeeze in 343 words at some point, to reach a 3,500-word total for the week. I couldn't stop writing last night, though, after Baby X fell asleep on my lap. It was the scene of Kat's first kiss!
By the time I finally forced myself to close my computer, I'd written 1869 words instead - the first time in months that I can remember writing that much of my own fiction in one day! (I write really quickly when I'm writing pre-outlined freelance work, but my own fiction tends to be sloooow. Not yesterday, though! Kat was racing ahead in her romance, and I couldn't stop running to follow her.) I am having so much fun with this novella!
Patrick's made a beautiful e-book cover for it, and I can't wait to share that publicly, sometime closer to the actual publication date. As for when that will be...well, I've written about 20,000 words so far, and I hope the story will be complete by the time it reaches 35,000 words at the absolute most. If that's the case, I might be able to finish a first draft within the next month...we'll see! But of course there will have to be several rounds of revision, copyediting, etc., after that before it's ready to be published.
Apart from the writing, it's been a quiet week. Baby X was sick for a lot of it, which was exhausting and worrying, but he's doing much, much better now (although of course MrD has now picked up a rotten cold and is sick at home today). And sadly, my visiting parents had to leave partway through the week to go back home. It really, really helps to know that we'll see them again in just a couple of months, though.
I'm already making a list of all the things I want to do in East Lansing while we're there this summer - which will of course include MANY, many trips to the wonderful public library! The idea of being able to read all those new-release American novels without having to buy them all myself fills me with an embarrassing amount of glee. (I really love my local library here in Wales, but - not surprisingly! - they don't stock a lot of American-only book releases, which makes it expensive for me to keep up with the American branches of the genres I write in.) My children will have to watch out on our way out of the East Lansing library when we first visit it in July - I may fall over just from greedily trying to carry too many books in my arms at once! ;)
What are you guys most looking forward to this year?
I've been charging ahead on my Kat novella, "Courting Magic", this past week, and I've gotten to that delicious stage where it's really taken over my head and I find myself thinking about it ALL the time, in-between washing dishes, watching dinosaur documentaries with MrD, reading Astrosaur novels to him, etc. Yesterday, since it was a Sunday, my big writing goal was just to somehow manage to squeeze in 343 words at some point, to reach a 3,500-word total for the week. I couldn't stop writing last night, though, after Baby X fell asleep on my lap. It was the scene of Kat's first kiss!
By the time I finally forced myself to close my computer, I'd written 1869 words instead - the first time in months that I can remember writing that much of my own fiction in one day! (I write really quickly when I'm writing pre-outlined freelance work, but my own fiction tends to be sloooow. Not yesterday, though! Kat was racing ahead in her romance, and I couldn't stop running to follow her.) I am having so much fun with this novella!
Patrick's made a beautiful e-book cover for it, and I can't wait to share that publicly, sometime closer to the actual publication date. As for when that will be...well, I've written about 20,000 words so far, and I hope the story will be complete by the time it reaches 35,000 words at the absolute most. If that's the case, I might be able to finish a first draft within the next month...we'll see! But of course there will have to be several rounds of revision, copyediting, etc., after that before it's ready to be published.
Apart from the writing, it's been a quiet week. Baby X was sick for a lot of it, which was exhausting and worrying, but he's doing much, much better now (although of course MrD has now picked up a rotten cold and is sick at home today). And sadly, my visiting parents had to leave partway through the week to go back home. It really, really helps to know that we'll see them again in just a couple of months, though.
I'm already making a list of all the things I want to do in East Lansing while we're there this summer - which will of course include MANY, many trips to the wonderful public library! The idea of being able to read all those new-release American novels without having to buy them all myself fills me with an embarrassing amount of glee. (I really love my local library here in Wales, but - not surprisingly! - they don't stock a lot of American-only book releases, which makes it expensive for me to keep up with the American branches of the genres I write in.) My children will have to watch out on our way out of the East Lansing library when we first visit it in July - I may fall over just from greedily trying to carry too many books in my arms at once! ;)
What are you guys most looking forward to this year?