Monday Musings

4 days

30,000 words

I'ma gonna pass out now thankyouverymuch...

But dang, do those words rock!

I reverted to my editing as I write method rather than just writing and fixing later. I'm not that kind of writer. Plus it pisses off my future self.

Going to crash now...hope everyone's writing is going rockingly!

Progress

Yesterday I wrote how I spent an inordinate amount of time on chapter 1 of my new very dark Regency story.

In 3 days, I managed a polished words. I'm rather impressed. It's not as much as I'd have liked, but then I also did other things. Slept, ate, BBQ'ed, family time. It was all good.

Friday Guest: Wendi Zwaduk will be here with her newest release My Immortal, a contemporary paranormal being released from Total-E-Bound. Don't forget to stop on by!

Thursday Progress

I'm having a great week. Writing wise at least. Won't talk any other-wise, it's not worth the headache.

It's been hugely busy, sleep has been of the past, but I'm so pleased with what I've accomplished I don't care. I'll crash this weekend, and believe me it'll be a crash.

Editing, writing, rewriting, when it works, it works. I wrote 15,000 words between last week and this week. All words I intend to keep, that work with the story, movie scenes along, and are so very lovely to look at.

I also rearranged my office area after convincing a screenplay writer friend that she needed an office space to focus on the writing at hand. I was so passionate about that, then looked around mine and realized I needed to clutter. ahh, breathing room.

Now if only I could move the wood stove from the living room to the office, I might actually use it in winter!

Complete!

I've finished my Germany-set story! OH, happy day, I love it when things are finished.

OK, it's finished as in done but not finished. I haven't gone over it again, not the whole thing. Gotta trim some words, and I think tighten a chapter towards the end - it's missing something and I suspect it's the H/H.

Last, I have to figure out the word count. I know how many words it is, but publishers have a variety of formulas that don't make much sense to be, but what do I know.

Yes!

No that's not a 'yes!' someone wants to publish me, it's a YES I managed to trim Warrior Heiress to the necessary length for Ellora's Cave's anthology. Phew. For a while, I added more than deleted, but it's amazing how a sentence can be retooled to eliminate 3 or so words. Do that with enough, and all those words add up until I'm doing the dance of joy and giggling to myself. Luckily, no one saw me.

Tomorrow, it's back to writing.

The Warrior Heiress

Seems I've decided. Might change, you never know. I'm finicky like that.


I also need to cut 40 more words from the story. I'm submitting it to Ellora's Cave for their anthology series, and since it's a short story it has to be between 10K and 13K words...I had 14, 237. I've cut and cut and cut and still need to cut 40 more words. It's rough, let me tell you.

I've read through the story twice already, and need to leave it be for a day or so before going through it again. I really love it, and would hate to be rejected solely on the basis that I didn't follow their rules.

Today is the more mundane aspects of daily life, chores. Tomorrow, word cutting. *Sigh*