I’ve been working on Help Wanted on and off as I’ve had the energy. Last time I updated the WIP bar, I had 6013 words total in the story. I now have 7654, so that’s 1641 since I last posted. Not 500 a day by any means, but still something.
Today I got to figure out what is cool enough about humans that we’re sought out for … well, something that would be a spoiler if I explained it. So I won’t. But I like what I got. Chapter 3 is done. Three more to go.
How are you doing with your words?
518 words, bringing me over 6000, so halfway done.
What I got tonight is too expository, and I’m going to have to fix it in revision, but the bones of it are pretty good—and it sets up the “reason why” for what I hope to write as a a series of short stories.
How were your words?
My heroine has been going through hell in hopes of achieving a tremendous goal, only to have everything she worked for ripped away from her because she chose integrity over compromise. 754 words tonight. Story, Help Wanted.
Headache is pretty bad right now, but I finished out scene two with a nice cliffhanger.
How are your words coming?
I’ve had to take a bunch of days off, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
However, when I’ve been up to it, I’ve been working. On Rebel Tales, on NovelWritingSchool.com, and also on fiction.
I was doing pretty well with TalysMana, but my daughter has some scheduling problems right now, so we’re having to put that on hold until she gets her schedule worked out.
Meanwhile, I’m putting together some shortish serial fiction for Rebel Tales. The current piece is Help Wanted, introducing a new heroine in a new SF world. I also want to write some Cadence Drake shorts for Rebel Tales. And I’m considering what I could do in the way of Tonk short stories for Rebel Tales Fantasy–probably not Talyn, probably not Hawkspar.
You can watch the progress on the progress bars to the right.
ADDED LATER: Got 581 words on Help Wanted tonight.
I wrote the short story “Light Through Fog” for the collection The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance because I needed a live project to demonstrate my techniques in the How To Think Sideways course, and I had to have the pressure of writing something that was commissioned, had a hard (and very close) deadline, and that the editor could reject.
Story went well, the editor accepted it and liked it so much she requested another for her next collection (this one I’m doing because the first one was fun in spite of the pressure)… and my daughter found a review of “Light Through Fog”, and sent me the link, which I’m passing on to you.
http://www.scifiguy.ca/2009/03/reviewette-light-through-fog-by-holly.html