I'm head over heels for this book right now. Gah, it makes me so happy. I love my characters. I love the story. Every time I think I've hit a plot hole or someone's motivation doesn't seem quite right, something happens and it just starts working again. I know I'm probably not going to be this infatuated twenty thousand words from now, but at ( Read more... )

30,000 words today. I've been slow due to long hours at work and a certain amount of obsessive Olympics-watching, but thirty's a good place to be.

I've found I like progress bars, even if my goal word count is a total shot in the dark.

12467 / 80000I'm really quite sure this is the novel I want to be writing right now. I've put two other major projects away, and now it's much easier to focus. I may never get back to one of them, because I'm not sure it's a book I want to write so much as a ( Read more... )

Title: Love Song
Word Count: 3,855
Summary: He felt the secret of the thing was not to realize the situation.
Notes: I'm seeking a less obvious name for my narrator, if anyone has suggestions.

( The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (in 12 vols.), Edward Gibbon; A. Strahan, T. Cadell and W. Travis, London, 1797, Little Brown & Co.; calf lthr, gilt edges; prev. owner’s bookplates & inscription, light foxing on a few pgs, absolutely stunning, and mine. )

I've been so awful about lj over the last, I don't know, year and a half or so, and so I have decided to add "update semiregularly" to my unofficial resolution, which is "write every day". I also mean to get better about reading and commenting on other people's journals ( Read more... )

Original fic post--early draft of a fragment. Thanks to quinnjleonard for the suggestions.

( lim f(x) )

*stares at word processor ( Read more... )

Briefly managed to convince myself that "mars" was spelled "marrs". (The verb, I mean, not the planet.)

Hmm.

I am on a socio-emotional and academic high.

( Cut for excessive happiness. )

"For most writers, writing is a love-hate affair. But for the ambivalent writer...the ambivalence usually shifts back and forth from the writing to the self. The inner monologue drums: I am great. I am shit. I am great. I am shit."

Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the TreesAugh. I turned in a short story for class yesterday, and I hate it. ( Read more... )