The story I'm writing for the Diabolical Plots call for subs has an END at the bottom! It comes in a little over 1500 words, which I may chop down so it also fits into Daily Science Fiction's guidelines, because there's no sense putting all my eggs in a single basket.

It makes me go "awww."

Now I just have to beat it into shape before the 31st.

I have 2100 words on my day, an END at the bottom of the manuscript, and a little over 4600 words in the first draft of the robot bunny story.

My head hurts, but it was so worth it.

Tomorrow, I'll poke it and start making it suck less. For tonight, I rest on my laurels, satisfied that I will finish it by the deadline.

I sat down and banged out the rest of the Blurring the Line story today. I've got over 2600 words on my day, an END at the bottom of the page, and 3500 words to edit into a semblance of not sucking. This is a very rough first draft, but I am well pleased with it, and I have a whole month to bang it into shape before the deadline.

Yaaaaaaaay.

Finally, finally, finally. The nightmare story has an END at the bottom of its first draft, and there is much rejoicing. This was a really difficult story to write, out of my comfort zone on every possible count. It came in a smidge over 4100 words ( Read more... )

I stuck an END at the bottom of the Baen story today. It came in at not quite 8400 words, which means I will need to whack 5% of out it in post. I scribbled 3700 words on the day, which may be some kind of record for me, and I did all of it in the car on the drive home from Colorado ( Read more... )

The first draft of the tattoo story is in the can. It came in at 7100 words.

This is a problem, because my limit is 6000. I found an entire scene I can excise, but that only cuts about half of what I need to.

Oh well. I shall fix it in post, as they say, and just be happy that I have something to edit.

The story I've code-named "Mean Streets," which I'm banging out in hopes of getting in here, (finally) has an END at the bottom. The first draft comes in at about 3650 words.

Now I get to edit it into some semblance of not sucking.

At least I think I may have finally figured out what I want to say with it. Maybe.

And, I reiterate: I am a terrible, terrible person. A little over 5100 words, so that's a good start. Now that it's roughed in, I can do all that worldbuilding that I handwaved the first time around ( Read more... )

Hell's Process Server has an END at the bottom of it! A hair under 5500 words, which is short for me. However, this thing will grow in re-writes, because it needs more description, but I still think it will stay under 6000, so I am well-pleased with it.

This marks my fourth story with angels in it. I'm sensing a trend in my writing of writing ( Read more... )

So, here we are five days into the (rebooted) NaNo Project o'Doom, and I have an END at the bottom of my first story ( Read more... )