This morning's First World Problem Stupidity: I left my apartment and locked both locks, even though my cleaning people only have the key to one of them. I was all set to run back home (killing 1.5 hours of my day) when I realized that hey, we have a management office at the complex. I called, they opened the other lock, and all should be well ( Read more... )

Spent 12 hours on Saturday inputting all the stuff I had written the previous weekend, and then working my way through the smaller edits on the following 20K words. Then ran slam into the beginning of the last part of the book, which was marked by a note that said, "Whole mess o' rewriting needed here ( Read more... )

Firstly, I'm sad I missed PSTPW Day yesterday because I was mostly off the internets. Here's the icon, one day late. Yes, it is a reference to Grosse Pointe BlankAnyhow, I was off the internets yesterday because I took the day off from work to write. I recently managed to hunt down my muse and staple him to the desk by his toga (it's a male muse ( Read more... )

I have reached the point where it cannot be denied: I need to write a big chunk of retrofill. I hope I can keep it under 7K words, but realistically I know it will be double that ( Read more... )

I had gotten through the first half of New Zeroth Draft in two or three days. Although I couldn't remember if I had any specific reason to suspect the second half would take longer, I still assumed it would be more like two or three weeks, and I've been padding it further and telling beta readers it should be ready for them in the beginning of May ( Read more... )

Actual shopping for food and washing of clothing happened this weekend. I ate things that weren't entirely made of sugar, butter, flour, and eggs. (Though I had plenty of that, too.) I even ate a green vegetable. (Brussels sprouts, to be specific ( Read more... )

You know, the actual "writing" part.

So I've done a little figuring. I want Nuns to have a first draft around 80K words (though I suspect it will be shorter; I always write short and add later).



5000 / 80000 words. 6% done ( Read more... )

Been a very long time since I did major world-creating. Most of it I did over years, beginning when I was a teenager and a college student, and I could dick around as much as I liked. I had plenty of contradictory stuff, and straightened it out later. Last year's novel was in that same world, different time period and country, but the major ( Read more... )

300 words on the new book yesterday. That's sort of my "regular" pace. I can usually fart out that much if I just refuse to get out of the chair or start up a game. It's enough for a conversation, or to move characters around in a scene ( Read more... )

There were a number of good posts from writers in the blogosphere last week, so please forgive me not being able to keep track of who said what bit of brilliance ( Read more... )