Still plugging away

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

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…

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

…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!

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

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*

The joy of research

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

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?

On By Kim KnoxIn Garden, Sweat with Sven, The Colonel Says..., Writing2 Comments

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.

I made it!

On By Kim KnoxIn Sweat with Sven, The Colonel Says..., Writing4 Comments

I wrote the minimum goal for Sven yesterday.

At the start, I didn’t think I’d get anything written and at 9pm last night I was still only about a 100 words in.  I thought about closing the laptop, vegging, shouting a bit more at CSI: Miami, reading a book, but I didn’t, I plugged on.  Just before midnight I got to 770 words.

I’m glad I did now, even though the words are probably crap and I’ll have to change/cut them anyway.  I pushed myself – which is not like me – and actually got to my goal – which is not like me either, LOL.  So hopefully I’m instilling some good routines through Sweat70 that I’ll retain Post Sven.  Fingers crossed.

A good Sven-day

On By Kim KnoxIn Sweat with Sven, The Colonel Says..., Wips, Writing2 Comments

Yesterday I got over 1000 words written on Weaving Words which was very unexpected and very nice.  That was the limit on that story for the day though, LOL  I couldn’t squeeze anything more out, so I tried one of the short stories I need to finish and managed a whopping 44 words *grin*

I made a bunch of new Colonel icons to spur me on and then I started to flag.

Finally, I succumbed and read through Satin Spar.  It was better than I remembered, amazing what even a few days of leaving it alone will do, and it only a few of the loose ends needed tying up.  So… I did that.  Then I wrote a scarily easy synopsis and blurb… then oops, I subbed it.

Satin Spar is the first erotic romance I’ve written and I have my nails bitten down to the elbow.

Now I intend not thinking about it, at all, LOL

A Sven-day off

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

I had post-going-out sniffles yesterday and I’ve still got them today. So… writing wise, I didn’t get much done. I did plot out a bit more of the ending of Weaving Words. I’m still trying to get my head around how the climax is going to play out. It’s still a bit of a jumble, but I think I almost have it.

I went to bed early to read and got annoyed instead. I hate it when characters have very convenient abilities just at the right time and you as the reader had no clue of this before hand.

‘I’m just this completely ordinary, but plucky woman, who can, oooh look, handle a sword like a pro and can drive like a bank robber’s get-away-man. Didn’t I give you a hint of my convenient hobbies/skills before? No? Really? Ah, well.’

*grrrr*

Anyway this morning, I sat down and splurged words and scrabbled out just over 750 words. Which is very nice.