I had a good day yesterday… and managed to sort out an interview for Enchanted (one with a difference *grin*). I also started the third part of the Snowflake for Alchemy. I’ll be able to write character sheets tonight.

Just finished my alotted 250 on Reluctant and added another… 1200… to Merlin.

It’s scarily easy writing at the minute.

It can’t last!

The Merlin novella rattled along this morning and is at 1900 words. Really pleased with that. I plotted it last night and, with the joy of the subconscious, managed to put in a lot of the myth… with a very different twist *grin*

I added another 400 words to Reluctant. That’s at 22k. Double yay.

I also, in a fit of madness, signed up for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Going to use it to get a serious portion of The Alchemist – now known as Alchemy – written.

Hopefully, this will all go to plan and I’ll have a serious wedge of words by the time December rolls around. *grin*

After yesterday being as hot as July, I have a stinking cold.

I think it’s my body’s way of saying that is so wrong in October. Anyway, it’s seriously interfering with Reluctant. It’s not easy writing sexy sizzling scenes when your nose is streaming, your throat’s raw and you just want to sleep.

Saying that, I did get the scene started. Which is cool.

Alchemist seriously distracted me yesterday. On the way to pick up Frodo, I was chatting into my dictaphone like a mad woman. Shame street noise obscured half of it. LOL. But a character that popped up on the first page is now integral to the plot. He’s the antagonist and he’ll be my favourite sort… Attractive, sinister, ambigious. Oops. Sounds like my hero too. Never mind. It’ll keep the heroine/protagonist guessing *grin*

And it’s based on the Byzantine Empire. I’ve always wanted to write about there. Way too influenced by Yeats at school.

Forgot to say…

The editor at Enchanted asked me to do an advert for The Billionaire’s Seduction. *squee*

It’ll be in the October 15 Issue. I know it’s six months off. But it’s a start!

Still waiting to see whether the course will develop into something that I want to go to…

But I did my homework this morning. Not the homework set… but it did seem to be fluid. So I started Alchemist, the story I planned to write after Reluctant. I have a rough outline and idea of the characters. Though a new one just popped out about 400 words in 🙂

After Relcutant, I’ll probably Snowflake the thing. Though I seemed to have used up my joy in the Snowflake with Exploding. Which is a shame. Can’t seem to get into it again. Maybe it was Reluctant. That’s mostly character and emotion over a few days.

Exploding does exactly what it says on the box.

Only got about 300 words down today… but I do need to plan the next bit out in finer detail. Honest.

Also my night course is starting. *grin* Building fictional words. Twenty weeks. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get the next fantasy sorted out – ready to write after Reluctant… Wow it almost looks like a plan.

Well, back to reading through Exploding Mule, while my subconscious ponders and plots.

I read through the first 20k of Reluctant.

Surprisingly, the first three chapters are okay *grin*. Four and Five are getting there. Now it’s the joy of the middle. I hate the middle. I know I have to push everything forward to reach the ‘black moment’ or whatever other term you want to use. But middles drag. And the worse place of all is the middle of the middle. Argh.

Plus the fact that it’s about 20k of angst and sex…

It’s a tough job, isn’t it…?

Woo Hoo

Two short stories are in the October issue of Deep Magic!
Hopefully, I’ll be able to post these on the website at some point in the future. Deep Magic is a PDF download ezine. http://www.deep-magic.net/

Oren’s Blade
A feud taken to a knife edge…
It’s the second half of the story that appeared in the September issue. Vote for me! Please…

His Favourite
A demon-possessed doll with OCD *grin*

Anyway, back to Reluctant. I think it’s about to get very interesting…

Coming up to the mid point of the current wip. Which is cool. Realised yesterday that there’s going to be a lot more naughtiness with this pair than I was expecting. I think if I pushed it, the book could be Romantica… but I’m going to stick to Sex with Angst. There’s nothing quite like it *smirk*

Also got my credits page done for the website. Could be launched next week. Depends on sorting the images out. I don’t have much arty software, so I’m going down a very convoluted route to shrink good images to the right size.

It’s going to look great… mainly because I didn’t design it.

And another 1100 words joins the ranks.

Not bad. Considering I had a horrendous day with the two small monsters. Nope. Not going there. This is a blog about writing. Though today I began to wonder whether I went temporarily insane when I decided to have children…

Got a bit more of the website sorted. The extracts are up. The short, though maybe not sweet, About Me Blurb is done. Weird trying to describe yourself in 200 words or less. I deliberately made it short. My stories are the interesting bits. They are. Really. Go read them. Next April you can buy one.

That’s not getting old *grin*