A little while ago, I had an epiphany of sorts: I was dragging my feet about the final-push querying on Highway of Mirrors because it really was time to put it aside and try something else. (I still think HoM is a good book, but it's time and then some to admit it's not going to be my debut novel.) The other part of the epiphany was that, of the ( Read more... )

Okay, I didn't expect the writing numbers to be good this month; I pretty much gave myself permission to abandon writing entirely in order to get that non-writing project I keep alluding to done. Not a choice I'm happy about, but trying to do it all was only making me feel squashed to a grease-spot. So ( Read more... )

Have I really not done this since... July? I can't find one later than July that isn't a NaNo post.

Mind you, a lot of that's because I didn't do much writing for much of that time. And when I did, I'd pretty much abandoned the idea of word count as a metric; it wasn't what I needed while finishing up Falling From Ground (quite the opposite, in ( Read more... )

I'm not querying any faster for the purring cat who keeps demanding attention, but I sure am querying happier.

This entry was originally posted at https://lizvogel.dreamwidth.org/195075.html because I got tired of dealing with whatever LiveJournal had broken this time. Comment whereever.

Happy New Year! (How on earth did that happen?)

I ended up with a surprise week off from the Day Job, I think because my manager forgot to put me on the schedule. So I decided I would spend it querying Highway of Mirrors. Good plan. I also told myself, way back at the end of November, that I could take a month off from Lightning Strikes TwiceI ( Read more... )

I meant to get the novel done before the beginning of May. Then before MediaWest. Then before the end of May. Then June 21?, which would have been exactly the four-year mark since I started. Then the end of June. Then the end of July. At least I made it before BistoCon, which was deadline... six? seven? of the current crop. There were ( Read more... )

I was supposed to be done before May. Then before MediaWest, then before the end of May. Then before the end of June. Then before the end of July.

I'm still not done with the book.

All new words were on Falling From GroundMay = 4524 ( Read more... )

Hey, look, it's the first. I should do this.

Falling From Ground: 2890
original short fiction: 1005

Total new words in April: 3895

Not quota, but frankly it's a lot better than I expected. I blame the ongoing cat stuff, and also the being stumped that I discussed in my last couple of (spoilery) posts. And all the chaotic life stuff that ( Read more... )

I did the math last night to determine that I was only 111 words shy of quota for the month. And I tried, I really did, but it just wasn't happening.

Which, as it turns out, was okay, because I'd looked at the wrong starting number and was in fact already over quota.

Falling From Ground = 4832 ( Read more... )

Green Ring = 465 ( Read more... )