NaNo – Day 13 & 14


Not much yesterday and about 12oo today. So I’m definitely slowing down, LOL

I’m at about 22k, but the past few days have been a rush of things, subs accepted, rejected, needing huge rewrites and two covers and blurbs to sort. Yes, excuses, excuses, I know. I don’t think I’ll get to 50k – but if I get to 40, I will be well pleased *grin*

In the post

The sub to Tor Paranormal is in the post.

With some rather lovely IRCs. So much nicer than the old ones. I’ll have to hunt out a picture. It’s Michaelangelo’s The Creation of Adam with a splash of gold where the fingers almost touch. Cool

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Forgot my NaNo update:

NaNo – Day 11 &12

It’s been slow going, mainly because I got to a dull bit, wrote through it, and realised after why it was dull and hard to write in the first place, LOL So, I have a bracketed note to myself to remember in the rewrite.

I also increased my word count to 1150 today, by going back and adding a semi-rude scene. *grin* Not fully rude, as there is a very good reason why Alesh and Varo should not have wild monkey sex. Aren’t I a bad person??

And I’m over 20k now! Woo hoo!

And off NaNo topic, but on sub topic, 7% and Rising got accepted by Samhain, and The Bone Magician’s Daughter got rejected by Berkley. So I’m getting another submission package out the door asap *grin*

Picking covers…

Time to decide on a cover for Past Lies…

I’m lucky. I get to have an imput into what goes on the front of my books. However, now it comes to it, my mind goes a complete and utter blank.

Time to trawl the web for inspiration, LOL

Oh and here’re are my nano updates for the past few days:

NaNo – Day 9 &10

So I haven’t been around for a couple of days again. But I have been writing. Honest. I’m just 4 words short of 18000. Which is extremely cool.

Got my demon attacking the ship scene done… but will have to go back to extend so I can have more of the crew involved. And liquid fire. Must have my liquid fire, hehe

So Alesh, has just reached her homeland.

Time for all hell to break loose…

Nano – Day 7 & 8


Yesterday was one of those days where I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I think I wrote 1500 words and then didn’t have the strength to make a picture and update my blogs… LOL

Doing slightly better today. Mainly because I skipped a bridging scene – which is dull and needs to have the tension, tension, tension that Donald Maass proscribes for every page, paragraph, sentence. So I got a sacrifice and a snog in 2000 words. (These two things are connected but happening miles and time apart… Honest.)

I may write more today as there be demons off the starboard bow…