Category: Writing

Paladin is finished. Yay

On By Kim KnoxIn Chance, Paladin, Writing

It’s ten thousand word longer than it should be and took up all of Nano instead of half of it…but now it’s finished. YAYAY. I need to grab a proper title, write a blurb and synopsis. That can wait a week or so. The deadline for the sub is 1 Jan 2009 (It’s an Ellora’s Cave Creamy theme sub 😀 ) so I have time to get it in later.

Now I have to focus on Chance. I plotted about 3/4s of the way through earlier in the week when Paladin eluded me, so I’m good to write for a few days before I start to scream and curse this wip too 😉

Almost a title

On By Kim KnoxIn Forbidden Fruit, Paladin, Reiver, Writing

Forbidden has a new title.  I’m just waiting for approval before I release it to the world.  Hope I get it 😀

And I’ve polished Reiver to within a inch of its life (it was already very buff *grin*, but another quick shine doesn’t hurt) and the full just hit the ether.

I’m in a silly state of full-on *squeee* today… but now I have to settle down and take a certain Paladin in hand.  Yay

A sale!

On By Kim KnoxIn Forbidden Fruit, sale!, Writing

I got an email yesterday offering me a contract on Forbidden. Yay

It needs a new title and thanks to a host of people *grin* I was able to send off a list late last night. So, now I’m waiting to see which one the editor likes. I marked out my favs and I’m hoping one of them is okay… 🙂

I’ll reveal more when the contract leaves my hot little hands, hehe

Epiphany moment

On By Kim KnoxIn Paladin, Writing

All right, I was (and still am) struggling with a sex scene in Paladin and could not work out why the scene was so s-l-o-w and difficult to write. I’d ploughed through the last scene in the story, and a wip before that, Demons, I’d piled up the sex scene count.

Now, it’s just hit me. It’s not a sex scene, it’s a making love scene.

Sex scenes are like action, fast, fun and a joy to write. The making love scene is complicated, slow and taxes my brain. The two characters have pushed past the lust and are heading for something more meaningful. Thinking back to other stories, this is the reason the sex was such a pita to write then too, lol

I’m not sure if this realisation helps me or not but at least I know now why I’m cursing my screen 😉

Just about awake…

On By Kim KnoxIn hobbits, Writing

I had to take the hobbits to a friend of Frodo’s birthday party at the usual soft play centre. The Ent had buggered off to a town outside Mordor to met up with his friends from long ago. The centre is of course not accessible by bus 😉 so I had to go by taxi.

Frodo – who doesn’t get invited to many parties because of his disability – said he had a great time. 😀 We walked to the bus station and an hour later- with two complaining hobbits in toe- we got the bus home.

All of us were asleep by nine, lol

So absolutely no writing down yesterday 😉

Personal Writing Challenge ~ update

On By Kim KnoxIn Paladin, Personal Writing Challenge, Whiskey Straight '08, Writing2 Comments

It’s been a while since  I posted about this, though I have been updating the PWC page in the side column.

I’ve started Nano… and it seems to happen every time: something about knowing I have to get 1667 a day out come hell or high water, makes me write crap.  It just does.  I’m working on Paladin, a submission for the ‘creamy’ Ellora’s Cave theme, which has to be in for 1 Jan 2009.  I had to hack it apart last night, thicken the descriptions, the characters so that I could write the next part.  I know that’s illegal in the NaNoWriMo world, but if I didn’t I probably wouldn’t write much more on it, lol

So my Nano total so far (including days few words) is: 4384

My PWC total is 279 509. That’s 63 292 since I started about 7 weeks ago. Not bad 😀

Sven is back!

On By Kim KnoxIn Sweat with Sven, The Colonel Says..., Writing

After a long absence… Sven is back! I’ve signed up. Anything that gets me accountable for putting words in a wip is fine by me. I have the Whiskey Shot and Nano to support me too, lol. I have to plot out stalled stories tonight as my head hurts too much to write 😉

http://70daysofsweat.com/wordpress/

So with Sven comes the obligatory motivational icons. Here’s the first:

Personal Writing Challenge ~ Update

On By Kim KnoxIn Fracture, Personal Writing Challenge, Wolf-blood, Writing

Wolf-blood is creeping over 28k now, with possible another 12k to go. Maybe more.  this could be another endless, endless wip like Fracture, lmao.  I do hope not though.

I’ve had a rest from it for a few days and started a short on space demons – with the exciting working title of Demons – which is clipping along at the moment.  This one will finish.  It’s probably a max word count of 15k.  I haven’t written anything that short in a while *grin*

So my total since I started the Personal Writing Challenge on 16 September is 260 890.  That works out as 44 673 in just over a month, which isn’t bad at all *grin*