I took my time this morning, goofing off, taking it easy. As a result, I figure I only did a couple thousand words today on chapter five. But I thought a lot as well. That story that I thought was an independent thing? It just became the prologue for the second book in this series. […]
I finished typing up chapter four today. It’s a lot shorter than I thought it would be. I realized why that was happening as I typed it. There’s a *lot* of dialog in that chapter. When you have lines that only have “Thank you” written on them, well, there tend not to be as many
Well, that took for-fucking-ever, but I finally finished writing chapter four today, adding 3500 words to the total so far. 25,500 / 100,000(25.5%) 25% complete? I’m in AWE of that. I started this project September 10th. I cannot believe how well it’s going, how I’m still obsessed with it, how I keep having ideas not
I should really never, ever, ever drink soda. Drinking soda = migraines. I can handle diet sodas better than regular soda. The sugar (and high fructose corn syrup) just kills me. Every single damn time. (schnaucl: this is not your fault. I was an idiot last night. I should have ordered a bottle of water
Five things that made me happy today: 1. Writing, or rather, rewriting. I found it difficult to get into the rewrites this morning. However, once I figured out that section A needed X, while section B actually needed 123, I got into them much more. 2. My darling schnaucl, as always. 3. up_your_peach — because
Writing went a bit slower this morning. I think it went so quickly last night because I was merely writing out a section that I’d already thought a lot about, and had written in my head, more than once, while this morning I was in the section beyond that. Some unexpected things turned up, but
It’s official. I’m officially now working on this new novel “Harp of Stars” and nothing else. It’s been a month and I’m still completely obsessed with it. So obsessed, in fact, that I went to a coffee shop tonight and started handwriting chapter four. Now — I rarely if ever write at night. But for
Spent the day working on chapter three. Finished writing it, then typed it up. It did turn out to be a really short chapter. I’m not sure if I’m just going to beef up what’s there on the page, or if I need to add another scene or two. I like where this chapter ends,
Working, working, working. . . Did about 3000 words today on chapter three. I’m really happy with it. I think it’s going to be a shorter chapter though, maybe only 4000 words total. Famous last words — the last time I thought that it would only take 1000 words to finish up a chapter I