I stayed up until about midnight last night, just so I would be able to sleep in until 6 AM. But it didn’t work. This morning I woke up at 3 AM — that sort of hard wake-up where you know you’re really awake and it’s going to stick. I lay in bed as long as I could stand it, … Continue reading →
3011 words exactly. 😀 I’ll work on revisions and expanding the synopses later today. Tomorrow, I’ll start into the expanded synopsis for this. But the scenes just landed perfectly. … Continue reading →
I don’t know why. Four AM on the nose, and I was wide awake and ready to write. So I came out, sat down, and I have about a thousand words already. And I have both my end of chapter cliffhanger, which I just love, and a surprise scene-break cliffhanger, firmly in mind. I have funny. I have spooky. I … Continue reading →
I’m taking a few minutes’ breather to figure out what happens next. I’ve done over 3000 words already this morning. Finished chapter two with a cliffhanger as solid as the one for chapter one, am well into chapter three. I am, however, in dire need of a nap already. Can’t say I’m crazy about waking up at 4AM, but it … Continue reading →
Not the best way to start a workday — but I got up, got some Tylenol and aspirin, and lay around for the better part of an hour until it went away. Since I couldn’t get back to sleep, though, I got up and got to work. Making good headway now — I’m going to push for a few more … Continue reading →
Woke up at five, anyway, though I lazed around in bed until five-forty, and still was up before the alarm went off. Nice way to start the morning. I’ve been hitting it hard already, making some good progress on the story. Having ended on such a dark and scary note with the last chapter, it’s now time to lighten things … Continue reading →
Ah, yes. And lest I forget, I currently have 12,693 keystrokes sitting uncounted on my work computer, because the Project Dolphin server is throttling them. After the exciting, nay, thrilling experience with FeaturePrice.com, my attitude toward being throttled is to throttle back. Arrrgh. I’ll try to send them again tonight. But talk about frustration. … Continue reading →
Finished Chapter One, am starting into Chapter Two now. Each chapter will run around 4000 words, and I’m planning to have each end with a cliffhanger. I used the same structure in Fire in the Mist and Sympathy for the Devil, and … I think … Minerva Wakes. It works well for light, shorter novels. Took a couple hours off … Continue reading →
Already got a lot done this morning — I’m just getting to the part where the hero tells the heroine that his problem includes the missing front half of the neighbor’s Rottweiler and a thing with wings. The scene is funny, btw — in a sort of Sympathy for the Devil/Minerva Wakes “frying-pan-into-the-fire” way. All four books will be like … Continue reading →
Got mini-synopses for all four books in the proposal done, plus a good start on the first chapter of the first book. Need three in all — I figure a total of twelve thousand words, or three four-thousand-word chapters. And I like what I got. I took a little break for breakfast and to add HollyCon information to the site … Continue reading →