Along with wanting to do 2727 more words on HAWKSPAR today, I also want to write that new proposal for Claire, and read at least a hundred pages of the TALYN proofs. So I’m going to be in FM chat, but sitting in the Word Wars room doing perpetual ten-minute sprints.
If you’re in the mood for long silence punctuated by rashes of numbers, come play.
Have the hero, the heroine, the theme, the conflict, and the basic storyline — enough, in fact, to put together a short proposal. Which I’ll do tomorrow.
Satisfied with what I accomplished today.
Ended with 96,407 after finishing a sentence I left unfinished in the last ten-minute chat run. 3176 words for the day. To the post office now to mail LGD. Then back to see about adding some to the proposal idea I came up with for Claire. And then some reading on TALYN, which has to be done.
Eeesh.
Not a lot of writing volume-wise, but I have the main character, the central conflict, and the basic world details in place. I’ll work on it as I can after I get my words over the next couple of days.
Have a couple of hours before bed, the guys both have new games they’re playing together, so I’m going to see if I can take Claire’s comments from our phone conversation and everything I’ve been trying to figure out about the romance genre and see if I can do a workable proposal this time.
I’ll just be bouncing ideas around in Inspiration for the time being.
Writing up the pitch took a full two hours. Now, though, I have 3000 words of HAWKSPAR awaiting, and I’m excited. Rik and a motley crew of misfits set sail today on a rescue mission that no sane man would touch. That’s the first thousand words.
In the two thousand words after that, the Acolyte Hawkspar becomes the Oracle Hawkspar, poor woman. She’s facing her worst nightmare, and about to discover she didn’t imagine the half of it.
Did 1077 words of vigorous selling on the book I want to do for the pseudonymous project. I’m hoping that my passion for the story will sell it. I think it would be a great book, even though the editor was not enthused when I tossed in the one-word subject.
If I don’t get to do it, I’ll live — but I think it would be a magnificent book.
Done. Going to bed. Will be back at six or so in the morning to do this again.
Compressing it down to one page sharpened it up considerably, helped me weed out things that were secondary, and gave the story a good punch. Am sending it off to my agent now.
I went through the RED GLASS BOX proposal last night and marked the beats that I want to leave in. Today, my job is to cut 1700 words down to 300 and make sure those three hundred give an accurate representation of what I want to do with the book. And have soul.
That’s the tricky part. Since I already have the whole storyline plotted out now, I’m giving myself one hour to do this.