So I haven't updated here in forever. Those of you who've known me for even a little while know that I'm an incredibly sporadic blogger at best, and a person who tends to vanish off the face of the internet for months at a time at worst. But today I have returned with exciting news. Seriously. It's very exciting. Wanna know what it is?

I've finished ( Read more... )

110k hit. I spent today working on a completely different story which I didn't even imagine until yesterday. It's a paranormal romance set in the same universe as Caffeinated but three years afterwards and featuring none of the same characters. (Yes, I have a master timeline of events in this world, though it's far from complete at the moment, and ( Read more... )

92k hit. Finally got through some of the middle bits to the actual last third of the book. A lot of it will be reworked when (if) I go back and edit, since, as has been pointed out, if it's boring to write it's probably boring to read. I have a lot of bits that are boring to write, since they're basically transition scenes, so those will have to be ( Read more... )

80k hit. I don't know if I'm done for the night or not yet, but at least my numbers on nano are no longer a lie. (Well, actually, I have 600 more words than it says on the site, but that's way better than, oh, 10,000 fewer, which is what I had this morning. I am far, far too obsessed with having a decent wordcount graph...)

The reason I'm not sure ( Read more... )

So More Than features, among other things, a couple of card-carrying Dark Lords doing their best to raise their daughter to be a well-rounded productive member of society. Thus, they taught her things like manners and literacy and how to properly behead something. Relevant to the plot is the alphabet poster they made for her, which lives proudly on ( Read more... )

So we're closing in on the halfway mark of the month, and several things are becoming clear. Probably they're obvious, but I haven't had a chance to look at myself while writing for a while since, before this month, there hadn't been any writing in a while. Now that writing is finally happening again, I am actually getting a chance to see the kinds ( Read more... )

70k hit. I was aiming for 80k today, but that's totally not going to happen, and I'm thinking I'll just quit for the night. I've done 10k today, and that seems to be my limit for writing and still being interested tomorrow. Given that I'd like to still be interested tomorrow, we'll leave it there. It means I'll have to keep playing catch up instead ( Read more... )

60k hit. And yeah, I did vanish for days and forget to report in when I hit 50k. Sorry about that. It's been basically all work on More Than, which actually has a complete plot now and a defined ending and everything. At this point I think More Than may be the most cohesive novel I've worked on in a while, and it's not giving in to the temptation ( Read more... )

48k hit. I spent most of today (well, the part of today I spent awake, at least) at a local coffee shop, mostly to see what it was like to write seriously in public. And it turned out to be extremely fun and something I will be trying again next week. I ended up with just under 18k. I could probably write the two or three hundred words it would ( Read more... )

30k hit. I almost didn't get it today. Starting was tough, and I didn't until after eight. Once I got going it was okay, but getting started took some doing. Plus, my interests randomly shifted on me so I spent today working on Caffeinated Ambrosia instead. Which I suppose isn't bad, since I'd like to write them both, but it would be nice if I got ( Read more... )