Category Archives: Night Echoes

Closing on the Revision Ending
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Spent yesterday dog-sick and mostly asleep on the couch. Today, I’m much better. I’m well into the revisions on Night Echoes, and I figure I have a few more days of hard work to take it to the finish. My biggest focus right now is coming up with a more satisfying last few lines; if I don’t get those in the first draft, I spend a lot of time while I’m revising looking for the right point in the body of the story to come back to and resolve at the very end. I have a couple of candidates right now, but I’m still not there. The cat currently has the last words, but I’m not pleased with any of them. (No, the cat doesn’t speak. But the last words are devoted to him.)

Onward.

The World Looks Brighter Today
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After 13+ hours of sleep, the migraine is gone. My blood pressure, which had spiked due to all the stress (though not up to the 160/110 range it was traveling in before I fixed it—just up to 140/84), has worked its way back down to normal levels. The air conditioning is fixed. The water isn’t, which meant that I got yet another shower in ice water this morning. Yowza—standing in ice water is much less tolerable now that the air conditioning is fixed, by the way, and the house isn’t 98 degrees inside. But we’re going to see about replacing the water heater today, and hope that homeowners’ insurance will cover some or all of it.

I did not get my words yesterday—the first day I’ve missed it quite some time, in spite of everything going on. But I feel human again today, so I’ll make them up, or at least the ones that can’t be pushed back just a bit.

Thanks for the encouragement and good wishes. And the comment on feverfew. I’ll look into that; I’ve never heard of it being good for migraines before. Would be fantastic if it helped.

4000+ Words Per Day
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I haven’t been around because I’m tired. I’m doing a damned good job of being productive, writing more than 4000 words a day every day (a lot for me), but in spite of that, my HAWKSPAR deadline is falling apart, and I’m dropping behind on other things, too. Have had a few rejections lately, which has not helped anything, and money is tight—that bane of the full-time writer’s existence—which ups the stress and the pressure.

Still, I like the words I’m getting. I’m backgrounding and developing a fantasy novel that is, until I sell the thing, code-named Project Blue. I’m excited about it. I’m tearing through Night Echoes, and I love what I’m getting on that. And I’m reworking The Ruby Key, though I think this project might end up being something I have to write the entire first book to sell. Ideally, I’d like to be able to afford to do that with every project. Now, however, is not the time to start doing that.

Got the Words
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Night Echoes started falling into place today. Got 2000 words. Will work on Hawkspar this afternoon. Right now, I’m starting into an open-ended fantasy proposal that has to be put together by next Monday. I am mapping, worldbuilding, language creating, and character-developing like mad—paper flies from my fingertips like lightning from the hands of mad Old Gods.

Plus… got potentially kick-ass cool news on The Ruby Key, but nothing I can talk about yet.

I am very tired. But very happy.