Aren’t I a girly swot? *grin*
Category: Writing
7% and Rising
The final line edits are away. Reading through the story, I do like this one, LOL It’s been with me for a while. Hints of storyline and characters chipping away at me until I had write the bloody thing, LOL
Here’s a snippet:
Cahn accelerated. She was tortured, dead. Dead if they caught her. Not thinking. Her feet pounded. The Staff roared, but she ignored it. Definitely not thinking.
The endless blue of the Attic sky shone above her. The gleam of marble caught in the fresh sunlight. There was only the promise of the hard, rocky earth far, far below.
Falling. Falling. Air rushed from her lungs. Her heart screamed—
And on the Sven front: I got about 1k written on Fracture and about 700 words on Chosen. So a good day. *grin*
5k on Fracture
Woot! I just finished up chapter 2 on Fracture. That took me about 100 words over my daily count and about 200 words over the 5k mark. So I get a reward *smirk*:
Hopefully, I’ll get The Honourable Lady finished up today/tomorrow too *grin*
:::EDITED:::
Yep I finished The Honourable Lady very unexpectedly this afternoon. My incentive to finish was to make another Reward Icon, LOL. I’m waiting on screencaps from ‘Doppleganger’. Saw that last night, and sad woman that I am I was looking for scenes I could steal, hehe
Hey, if it gets me writing, I’m happy to be this sad *snicker*
Still plugging away
The weather’s started to change, so my sinuses are in revolt. *sigh* I made the mistake of taking a Sinutab and my head went of in fifteen directions at once. I got no writing done after that. Luckily, I’d got about 750 written on Fracture and about 400 words on The Honourable Lady.
I have my word count done on Fracture this morning, despite the arrival of Grandma Gandalf who talked at me no stop, LOL Not conducive to writing rudeness with your mother going into detail about the enormous size of her beef and ale pie and glowworms in New Zealand 😉
So to give myself a reward, I made a Colonel Reward Icon for the 5k mark on Fracture. Hopefully I’ll get to post it tomorrow *grin*
The clocks have gone back…
…and did I get any benefit from it? No *sigh*
The hobbits got up even earlier and though they went to bed an hour before they usually do, they didn’t go to sleep. The good news today is that school/pre-school starts again. YAY Hopefully by the time the next school holiday swings around, we’ll have a garden finished enough so that they can work off their considerable energy there, rather than in the house. I never had their energy, both The Ent and I are convinced of it, LOL
On the Sven front: I got just over a 1k written on Fracture. Fingers crossed that I carry on at this rate and it’s finished up by the end of November *grin*
OMG, it’s away!
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*
Oops…
…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!
Weaving Words… first draft complete
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:
The joy of research
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.
Who woulda thunk it?
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.
KIM KNOX 