Month: October 2012

  • 52 Revision pages on WARPAINT: WABWM#

    8:02 AM Okay. Did 52 real pages of revision yesterday, but about a third were hand-written brand-new pages. Which means I didn’t get 52 MANUSCRIPT pages done. So I’m now behind my worst-case scenario for making the 20th as my pub date. And that was working until midnight. I’ll see if I can catch up…

  • WABWM: Shower Songs, and the New Schedule

    9:51 AM Not as late a start as it seems. Couldn’t sleep last night, either, but this time I was smarter about it. Woke up at 2 AM, got up at 2:30 AM, and did write-in until about 4:30 AM before going back to bed. So this is round two for the day for me.…

  • WABWM: New story finished over the weekend

    8:06 AM Finished the short story Long Road Home yesterday (was Do-Over on my weblog progress bar, but the working title sucked). Sentence: A woman who’s lost everything makes a deal with the devil to relive her life, only to discover the deal didn’t work the way she thought. First draft came out at about…

  • WABWM: Continuing yesterday’s scene with my newly essential guy

    12:40 PM Slept in, read some Robert Crais, but now I’m going to finish the chapter that introduces my newly important character. He made a big entrance. I’ll have to refine these new scenes before I give the book to my content editor or send out ARCs, but he…well…he made a good first impression if…

  • WABWM: One perfect line.

    8:32 AM Started with some catch-up maintenance, but am now ready to get started. Yesterday I added about 2300 new words to the story, but I still haven’t reached the two new chapters I have to write. I’ll hit those in about an hour, if my assessment of scribbled on pages holds up. I dreamed…

  • Cady (in Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood) hit #8 in her category on Amazon

    Tuesday night, HUNTING THE CORRIGAN’S BLOOD hit #8 in Books/SF/Space Opera on Amazon.com. The book was hovered around the top ten all day yesterday, and is #20 right now. I want to thanks the folks who bought the book, who recommended it, who wrote reviews. With Cady having a good kickoff, it makes my chances…

  • WABWM: The Chapters I Didn’t Write?!

    8:15 AM I’m making better progress than this looks like, because what I’m doing now is the full revision including write-in. I hit a wall, you see. In chapter Eight, I wrote what is going to HAVE to be Chapters 9 and Chapters 10 in three sentences. At the time, I thought those three sentences…

  • WABWM: How Battle Plans Fall Apart (But Still Keep Working)

    9:03 AM Have been working since about 7:00 AM. Am both behind and ahead on the revision. I’m doing Chapter 9 right now, which in theory would put me behind (since my schedule today calls for me to have STARTED on Chapter 11. However, with two exceptions where I’ll have to add entirely new scenes,…

  • WABWM: The WARPAINT Revision Schedule

    7:40 AM Have just finished printing of the WARPAINT manuscript. Am getting ready to print off my HTRYN worksheets. Have SFR index cards in the requisite four colors, have my little notebook, have a couple good pens, have space at the kitchen table. Today I start the revision. (Boing!_,.-~*^*~-.,_Boing!_,.-~*^*~-.,_Boing!_,.-~*^*~-.,_) Hit all of last week’s deadlines,…

  • WABWM: Down to the wire, doing the stress dance

    10:04 AM Have been working since 7:30 AM. Am in full-blown “holy shit, I’m outta time” mode now. What I needed to get done yesterday… #4-Transfer corrections to e-pub versions. #8-Set up the sales pages for my site, Amazon, B&N, Apple, and possibly Kobo (Kobo is not impressing me) (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, WordPress. #12-Write the cool…