All right, confessional time in the old corral.

I've been shying away from writing Ring Of Fire #5 for a long time, partially because I've been occupied by other projects such as Living After Midnight, the false start but still-simmering Black Sunshine, and learning how to be a better guitar hero with my Ibanez. These things happen; especially ( Read more... )

I've eternally promised this, but never delivered.

Until now.

100,267

That's the final word count for Underworld.  I'm done, glory, hallelujah, holla back.  I know it's going to need editing, revision and a river of blood.  That, however, is for another day.

For now, I'm having a Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale and whispering under my breath, "Who's your ( Read more... )

I haven't actually finished off on Underworld yet.  I'm 2/3 through the epilogue scene, and I hope to have it done tonight.  Really, I do.

Stop laughing at me, goddamnit!  By the end of the night, I really do intend to have myself... um... closer to done?

Right.  Bath, then typing.  So it goes.

In other news, I have to state for the record that I am really enjoying the 2007-2008 Writer's Strike.  While talking with a co-worker the other day who I have turned onto The Dresden Files and Weather Warden series, I mentioned that not having to worry about what's on television has proven to be enormously freeing in my life.  He laughed and ( Read more... )

No, I'm serious.  I really did do some work on Underworld today.  In fact, I did quite a lot.

The last word count I had on this seemingly endless novel was 79,478 words.  Today, after some furious keyboard pounding and stream-of-consciousness writing (giving the middle finger to Writer's Fear/Block), the word count total stands at a rather ( Read more... )

While I was driving the bus at OMG Early O'Clock this morning, it occurred to me that National Novel Writing Month is less than a month away--exactly four weeks according to my desk calendar--and I have yet to put down word one of my pre-launch plotting.

Uh-oh.

I also haven't finished Underworld yet, which is thoroughly shameful.  I suppose I could ( Read more... )

My football team won yesterday... other than that, it's been a wash lately.

We went to Lady Jade's 10-year high school reunion on Saturday, and all I can say is that I now have a new wellspring of insipid conversational notes I can refer back to whenever I plan on being really, really snarky.  She was very pleased by the fact that the "popular girls ( Read more... )

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First off, the obligatory "Underworld" progress update:


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