I zapped Weaving Words off into the ether late last night. It was mostly a clean copy anyway, so a bit of tweaking, some name changing and *joy* the synopsis and it was ready to go. So I sent it.
I might look at The Honourable Lady over the next few days after my time on Fracture is over and see if I can sub that by the end of the month. *grin*
…I accidentally wrote more on Fracture. Did get to find out what the hero’s name was, which is nice. *grin*
And on the gardening front: We’ve been promised grass by November. Woot!
A little earlier than anticipated. Well, the hobbits were in the park and I just bashed out 1209 words. I still have to go back and read through and probably add more, but as of now the first draft is done, so I get to post this:
As Weaving Words is winding down – I got another 900 words written yesterday, so there’s max 2k to go – I started looking properly at Fracture, my NaNoWriMo attempt.
I wrote about 300 words on it last week, to try to get a feel of what Thalia would be like and found out she’s fairly noir. Bit of a surprise, LOL I’ve also started research. I know that you’re supposed to do all your research before hand, but I’m a ‘planster’ or whatever the corruption of plotter and panster is. I plot loosely then discover the real detail when I write, hence I can’t really research. I’m already at a ‘hunt through books and Google’ point, but I have to be careful not to get sidetracked as I’m an information magpie.
Last week I found a study by the University of Liverpool that women with shorter forefingers than ring fingers are somewhat less likely to get breast cancer at a young age. GPs are expected to start using it as a diagnostic technique in the future. Interesting, and comforting, as I stared at my shorter finger…but not helpful with looking for close combat fighting. (See how I can be sidetracked?)
Then I fall into the fanfic trap, which always has the gravitational pull of a black hole for me.
Yesterday, I was on the hunt for evil spirits. I stayed on target for a change. I think I found enough to move onto the end of the scene and create Thalia’s background as a fraudulent psychic investigator.
And now the hobbits are killing each other upstairs. I’ll get them dressed and as The Ent is off today, he’s taking them to the park. Hopefully, I’ll get some writing done when the house is quiet for an hour.
I plugged in my writing numbers… and I’m about 300 words up from the same time last week.
I’m a bit stunned. Getting the words out this week has been a struggle, though looking back over last week’s posts I had a bugger of time early last week too, LOL It could be I had to get back into new stories both Mondays. Or it could just be that I hate Mondays? Anyway, yesterday I got about 900 words written. I’m into the last chapter of Weaving Words so hopefully the first draft will be done and I’ll be able to post my Colonel Reward Icon *grin*
And there’s only one more day of half-term left to suffer go, so soon the hobbits will be back at school/nursery. They’re going slightly stir crazy, LOL So we’re finally getting the garden sorted. Soon we might have grass instead of a concrete hole and the hobbits (who have far too much energy) will be able to tear about outside rather than pound through the house. Joy.
I’ll post pics of the nightmare that is my yard when I next upload the camera.
I wrote the minimum goal for Sven yesterday.
At the start, I didn’t think I’d get anything written and at 9pm last night I was still only about a 100 words in. I thought about closing the laptop, vegging, shouting a bit more at CSI: Miami, reading a book, but I didn’t, I plugged on. Just before midnight I got to 770 words.
I’m glad I did now, even though the words are probably crap and I’ll have to change/cut them anyway. I pushed myself – which is not like me – and actually got to my goal – which is not like me either, LOL. So hopefully I’m instilling some good routines through Sweat70 that I’ll retain Post Sven. Fingers crossed.
Yesterday I got over 1000 words written on Weaving Words which was very unexpected and very nice. That was the limit on that story for the day though, LOL I couldn’t squeeze anything more out, so I tried one of the short stories I need to finish and managed a whopping 44 words *grin*
I made a bunch of new Colonel icons to spur me on and then I started to flag.
Finally, I succumbed and read through Satin Spar. It was better than I remembered, amazing what even a few days of leaving it alone will do, and it only a few of the loose ends needed tying up. So… I did that. Then I wrote a scarily easy synopsis and blurb… then oops, I subbed it.
Satin Spar is the first erotic romance I’ve written and I have my nails bitten down to the elbow.
Now I intend not thinking about it, at all, LOL
I had post-going-out sniffles yesterday and I’ve still got them today. So… writing wise, I didn’t get much done. I did plot out a bit more of the ending of Weaving Words. I’m still trying to get my head around how the climax is going to play out. It’s still a bit of a jumble, but I think I almost have it.
I went to bed early to read and got annoyed instead. I hate it when characters have very convenient abilities just at the right time and you as the reader had no clue of this before hand.
‘I’m just this completely ordinary, but plucky woman, who can, oooh look, handle a sword like a pro and can drive like a bank robber’s get-away-man. Didn’t I give you a hint of my convenient hobbies/skills before? No? Really? Ah, well.’
*grrrr*
Anyway this morning, I sat down and splurged words and scrabbled out just over 750 words. Which is very nice.
Woot! A day early and I get to post this:
And since this made me write a lot more, yes Colonel, tying you up is enough of a reward for me *snort*
And the place not to do it is in the middle of an old warehouse that’s been turned into a children’s soft play centre. *sigh*
I was completely paranoid that adults, staff, children passing the table would try to read over my shoulder. I was the only person in the vast space with a laptop, to I had the curiosity factor against me. Normally, I’m not so twitchy and people will nose…but this time and this particular scene had be bouncing the file open and shut every five minutes. Needless to say, in the time I was there – about an hour and a half – I only got about 300 words written, LOL
I am edging ever closer to the end, though. Which is cool.
On the Sven front:
I got over 1500 words written yesterday and I started to read through Weaving Words, to try to get a handle on that story again.
And soon I’ll be able to post my first reward icon… *squeeee*
KIM KNOX 