So…the first week of the PWC and I’ve managed to write – OMG – 10 890. Wow. I didn’t think it was quite that much, lol
I may get more written in October than I thought too, as my cough and cold has still not shifted. If I’m not fighting fit by next Tuesday, then my surgery won’t go ahead. And I have no clue how far into the future they’ll reschedule it *sigh*
I have a cough and cold, which is typical when I have to go into hospital in 12 days. *grrr*
On the PWC front, I’m updating the Personal Writing Challenge page on the side bar every day if you want to see what I’m doing *grin*
December was mostly a wash out. I probably got about 10000 words during the whole month.
So I made my resolution today to try to get back into my Sven routine. Fracture – which I’m going to read through right now – is a bit of a nightmare. I’ve got to about 16k on Chosen. But at the minute I’ve been inspired to tackle Lost Gods again.
I just hit 5104 words on that… So, I’m reinstigating my reward system *grin* The Colonel will be sharing the system with someone else in 2008… The Master.
I’ve been fighting a cold for about a fortnight, but today it finally pinned me down and stuffed me full of mucus. Joy.
I did struggle out to the post office and put Dark Host in the post to Brava. And I’ve added to the word count of both Fracture and Chosen, so now I might have to curl up in a mound of soggy tissues and quietly veg. *blech*
I’m glad I’m inside today. It’s wild, wet and blustery out there.
I’ve nothing much to blog about at the minute, as I am mostly writing, LOL Fracture is (hopefully) past the half way point. I was attacked by plot bunnies on Monday which threatened to drag the story into a novel, but I think I have them culled now 😉 And Chosen is moving on v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y, but at least its moving…
I blogged here yesterday about my trials of starting a new project.
And today, I learned something else about successful story building… well for me any way.
Find your theme.
I’m usually a one word theme-ster. Chosen was Choice, for example LOL But there were variations on the word. Having no choice. Making the right and the wrong choice. I realised when I started writing Chosen, that having even a single word theme helped me with a stuck plot. When everything died, I went back to my theme and *bing* out popped the next part of the plot. Cool. I might have actually hit on something useful for me. For a change *grin*
I remember stressing over Past Lies and having no idea what the theme was. Then I had to think of a new title. Out popped the above. And guess what the theme of that book is?
I wish I had a direct line to my subconscious. It would make life so much easer…
… and I will update my Roma adventure.
But first I have to get Chosen out the door, help with the Past Lies cover, which is coming along very nicely thank you, and rugby tackle edits for Past Lies too.
I thought I rubbed the copy clean when I sent it in, but there are ‘D’uh!’ mistakes that I simply didn’t/couldn’t see on the final sweep. I am sooo bad at seeing my own writing clearly, LOL
KIM KNOX 