I'm trying to outline Part Two, but so far there is nothing resembling a plot here.

I finished The Replacement and the first scene of Part Two. It's been a very productive day.

In other news, I have possible book titles for the trilogy:

Book 1: The Temple Well
Book 2: (The) Rising Waters
Book 3: (The) Altar of Ice

The trilogy will be referred to as the "Takira" trilogy, because I am unimaginative like that.

 I will probably regret this, but instead of studying for my MCATs, I stayed up all night and finished Part One ( Read more... )

I just wrote a book review and I decided to make it "friends only" because I didn't really like the book.

Will a bad review result in bad repercussions if I ever decide to publish? If I submit to agents and publishers who are unaffiliated with the book, then it might not be a problem. The thing is, I heard very good things about this book's ( Read more... )

 For eight years, I have been expecting to write a book and a sequel. Now I'm beginning to realize that those plans might need to change ( Read more... )

I have six scenes to write today and I can't get past this bullshit.

I hate, hate scene 30. The minute I finish it, I think I'm going to print it out and light it on fire.

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Edit

After much procrastinating and some alcohol, I discovered that the best way to deal with this scene was to write it from Paula's perspective, instead of Itoban. I also ( Read more... )

 I have 33 hours to write 6 scenes. This might not be so bad if I didn't need time to eat, sleep, and procrastinate ( Read more... )

 It feels blasphemous to write in English when you have Hebrew music playing in the background ( Read more... )

 So close. So, so close.

 The Temple Well just hit 50,000 words.

(I've been working on this draft since June 2009.)