… the new series of Robin Hood on the BBC is complete and utter pants!!!

There.

I feel much better.

Please return to your scheduled blogging…

Hopefully, I’ll get somewhere with this story as its been bugging me for quite a while.

And I know I’ve changed the nature of this blog. But Jarod Vae is not playing any more. He’s popped up in The Mystic’s Son, 25 years older and still just as annoying… *sigh*

I checked through the Galley of Buying Mackenzie’s Baby. Just 4 teeny tiny niggles, added some rather nice reviews I’ve had and zapped it into the ether.

So now I have to get back to The Balanced Blade.

Oh, and my Nano updates will be on my other blog. The essential cover is already there. *grin*

I have my little list on the wall above the bombsite that is my desk.

I know, I know… my desk is my most valuable real estate… but my whole house lacks storage so my little corner of the Hobbitses playroom will not be an exception.

Anyway I have my Alphasmart. I am so-o-o portable right now *smirk*

So, back to my list.

I can knock two off it: Past Lies and 7% and Rising.

That left… four… or so I thought. I suddenly have a shed load more

I started The Mystic’s Son on Saturday to stop me attacking my Nano story. However, I was getting too wrapped up in that, and I’d never get to my Nano, LOL

So I’m up to 2k on The Balanced Blade, which has a maximum length of 8k. A fair chunk of it should be done by next Wednesday. It’s still not geling at the minute. But I can rip it apart when it’s a first draft *grin*

Then it’s Nano.

On the 1st December it’s Guardian Angel.

There really aren’t enough hours in the day… *sigh*

…Yes!

Just got the email from Whiskey Creek Press.

They said yes to The Third Proposal to be in the Torrid Teaser line.

Woo hoo!

2500 words…

So-o-o-o not a bad writing day *grin*

So my Alphasmart Dana came yesterday. Plugged it to charge and went out to a Write Club meeting.

The Ent who poo-pooed my wanting one of these little gadgets, spent two hours playing with it while I was out.

And does it work?

Well, after a bit of fiddling and realising that Documents to Go wasn’t working and finding out where the hell Alphaword was dumping the docs in my laptop, I added a few words to The Mystic Son... 3000 to be exact. *grin*

Words pile up, it’s a little scary. Just shows how completely distracted I am by this laptop LOL

Hopefully, it’ll really help with NaNo…

All right, I worked through my Guardian Angel urge by writing a thousand words and setting up the prologue… me being the Prologue Queen and all. *grin*

So I’m ready. I’ve grabbed 45 Master Characters, looked at the first part of the heroine’s journey outline. And the idea for the sequel to The Bone Magician’s Daughter hits me… ARGH!

I used 45 Master Characters to write Bone Magician. I think my naughty subconscious was waiting for me to look at it again before telling me about Rede’s story. I can see him lying there, ship wrecked on the beach… *sigh* Now I’m going to have to write that scene before The Mystic’s Son – see, my subconscious even supplied a title *grrr* – will leave me alone and I can get on with my NaNo outline.

Will I ever get this outline sorted?? LOL

…Buying Mackenzie’s Baby is going to print!

YAYAYYAYAYAYYAY

I got the galley through this morning.

The date of release is *drum roll*

19 December 2006

I’m going to be able to hold my book, squish my face into the pages and actually smell it. *squeee*