ARGHGHGGGGGGGGHGHGHGHGH!
Category: Writing
Hack Slay Fest continued…
The hack slay fest is done. And the following 17 pages aren’t as bad as the first 10. *grin* I think I need to go back over the first bit again and take out even more.
Then I have to change it for the target publisher and write the end.
Hack Slaying is so much easier *sigh*
Hack Slay Fest
Taking a break from Heiress, I attacked 10 pages of 7%…. and took out almost 1000 words LOL I’d info dumped all over the place. And it sagged. God, my writing’s improved over the last year!
Unusual subject matter
Heiress has taken a odd turn. Well, what was vaguely implied has just jumped to the foreground and is ready to slap you about the face with a big wet fish. *grin*
Whether it will fit the target line, I don’t know. But it has to be there.
Ho hum.
7% and Rising
Just read through this novella. Yup. Major rewrite, LOL
Buying Mackenzie’s Baby
…now has its own link… here
And I’m not the bottom of the page any more. Yay
Contracts
Printing out the contract for Nimue’s Price and tomorrow morning.. well, this morning… it will be in the post.
Posted the first extract in the Samhain Cafe Yahoo Group… hmm… now having doubts about whether I could have put up a different piece. It’s hard because Nimue’s Price is only a novella. I only have 16000 words to play with. Well less than that. Extracts are usually from the first half of the story, I think.
It is about Sex and WMDs – but it’s hard to illustrate that without giving the whole story away, LOL
The next novella: 7%
Getting Nimue finished and subbed and accepted *still grinning*, has pushed me into finally finishing 7% – an extreme time travel novella. I’m almost at 13000 – and have been for a while now, LOL
It needs a bit of reworking, the ending – which will change slightly – and that’s about it.
It’s the distraction I need from writing Heiress, LOL
Just saw the date. Samwise is 22 months old today *grin*
Abacus Dreams
Teebee made a sale yesterday. Abacus Dreams made her her first 80c on Lulu.
Make Teebee some more money, go download it. It is a really cool story.
Plus you learn how to play the Elephant Game. *grin*
Picking Excerpts
I’ve written about 100 words on Heiress, mainly because I’ve been trying to collate intriguing excerpts to post about the web. I still haven’t chosen them all for Buying Mackenzie’s Baby yet.
It’s hard! LOL
Erm… not that they’re aren’t intriguing… They are. Mack’s Alpha all the way. And the sex…
All right. I’ll shut up now.
Anyway, on a good note, a friend got a revision request not a rejection *grin* She is so close to selling. Fingers crossed for you, AF.
And I’m going to be in an e-cookbook.
I know. You’re thinking. Kim… Cooking?? Someone’s let her near food?
But a huge, massive and heartfelt thank you to Jennie Andrus for sorting out my recipe, LOL She’s single handedly putting the thing together. By Friday!
Her non-cook book, Dragon’s Birth, is out on 28 February… here
Buy it