Month: July 2007

  • Fever Sale

    In honor of the fever. I’m already tired of this. Drinking fluids, resting. The sale is my sense of humor, such as it is when I’m sick, anyway. It runs through Monday so the folks who surf from work aren’t left out. ALL CLINICS $2 OFF! EBOOK AND PRINT VERSIONS Sale Runs From Saturday July…

  • Friday comes early: Friday Snippet from THE RUBY KEY

    I still feel like absolute death on moldy toast. This is more flu than cold, I think, and it’s clobbering me hard. But I’m up for the moment, and decided to go ahead and do the Friday Snippet early, then take the rest of the week off (or until such time as I actually feel…

  • Ruby Key: Done!

    I love it. It’s done. And I’m done in. Going to be offline for the next two days, getting over this flu-y thing and catching up on my sleep. DONE! And on time, too. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Never give a sick kid red Gatorade

    ‘Nuff said. I’m not the only one sick. But I keep reminding myself that tomorrow, I get to sleep in. I have more heavy-duty typing today than yesterday. The second half of Ruby Key is the section that has most of the new material, though I typed in about 11,000 new words yesterday. You won’t…

  • Here we go

    I’ve finished the write-in for The Ruby Key. I have no idea how many words I added. They’re all handwritten on ratty-edged notebook paper, with page numbering that goes 16-A, 16-B, 16-C, etc. I know I added a lot of scenes. More than a dozen. I know I added a lot of words. But how…

  • Writing final new scene

    If I can nail this scene without bleeding out the eyeballs, I should be able to start type-in in an hour or two. Then I’ll start seeing how much I’ve actually added. I have today and tomorrow to do type-in, and Tuesday the thing goes to Lisa and Robin. I’m pretty sure I’ve added a…

  • Yesterday Genna got mad

    Today, she gets even. In my quest to make my heroine the kick-butt hero of her own story, yesterday she took a really nasty situation in hand (with a cast-iron skillet, no less) and went one on one with a monster. Then, with the trophies of her monster-bashing stowed neatly away—but her prize ripped from…

  • Caught up late yesterday

    I did not pull ahead, though. “Late” in this case was really, really late. But I’m close to finishing the day’s work, and am going to push ahead and see if I can, in fact, gain a bit of ground on the deadline. Any extra time I can win for the type-in, which is going…

  • Fell Behind

    Yesterday was the first day that I didn’t make my words. I got stuck on a couple of sections, couldn’t figure out the fix-it puzzles to everything I needed, and just generally struggled in a sea of freaking frustration. I am officially behind on the count, though not by a great deal. I wrote one…

  • Still on schedule with RUBY KEY edits

    I was up until 2:20 a.m. working on a new scene. Bounced ideas back and forth, used just about every plot trick I know (including finishing up a pair of Dark and Stormy Night Socks I was knitting. It’s amazing how two or three rounds every time you get stuck ads up to socks in…