Cherie Priest, with whom I am currently embroiled in an unofficial but still inspiring “who’s written the most words this year” contest, writes at damned near the exact same pace I do, and furthermore, apparently has a mental metric system a lot like my own. As posted today/last night/whatever (this time zone thing is a you-know-what in the ass), she defines what constitutes a “good” day’s writing, in her opinion: Marginally Acceptable — 1000 words Fair — 2000 words Good — 3000 words Glorious — 4000+ words I’m beginning to…
Tag: writing
hooooooleeeee…
I just got the unfinished painting for the cover for Chance #2. OH. MY. *GOD*. I donno when I’m going to be able to show it off (not for a while yet, because the comic’s going to *preview* at San Diego, and *launch* in September, rather than launching in July as previously thought), but OH MY *GOD*. Responses from the handful of people I’ve shown it to have been: “Um. Jesus Christ”, “oh NICE”, “super hot”, “oh my GOD”, and “I’d buy that,” which I correctly interpreted as “I’d hit…
close enough
4700 is close enough to 5K. Maybe I’ll go for a walk in the lovely April evening. I posted my books I’ve written meme thing the other day and then through a fit of WordPress/LJ crossover stupidity deleted it, so if you missed it and are interested, or commented and wonder why I haven’t answered, it’s because I killed the comments with the accidental delete. Bah. ytd wordcount: 157,000 miles to Minas Tirith: 268
trying something new
Yesterday, after spending three days slogging through genuinely not very good writing, I did something I’ve never done before while writing a book: I gave myself permission to skip the hard part. Mostly I don’t do that, because mostly if I skip a bit when I come back to that part I’ve forgotten that I /did/ skip something, and I’m really pissed off and it’s not any easier to write it than it would’ve been in the first place, but with added bonus of being pissed about the whole thing.…
Books I Have Wrote
(Um. Reposting this because for some weird reason, LJ ate the post. This is not the first time this has happened. Does anybody have any idea if it’s even *possible* to retrieve a post that LJ has wiped out? I mean, I have no particular attachment to the post itself, but there were comments on it, not all of which I’d responded to yet (ie, yes, mony, you *have* known me a long time, and stuff like that)…) (…oh, I bet I know what happened. I edited the entry on…