More of Sarah’s fault! Well, okay, not really, not entirely, because I’m on the same mailing lists she’s on and it’s been announced all around, but: Harlequin is starting a new line of fantasy novels, full-length books (100-150K), with romantic subplots (which most novels have anyway), which they’re going to start publishing in 2004 as trade paperbacks, one title a month while they see how it goes, and maybe more titles a month after that. They’re taking open submissions. I don’t HAVE a 100-150K fantasy novel! (Actually, I do, but…
Author: mizkit
writings
A chapter and a fraction of US edited today, and 1250 words written on Angles. My wrists hurt. Hnf.
hnf.
So in a fit of pissiness I ordered a swimsuit off speedo.com, since, yes, apparently NO ONE COULD EVER WANT TO BUY A SWIMSUIT OFF-SEASON, wtf is that all about, anyway, so now I guess I get to wait and see if it fits. Hnf. In other news, I completely forgot I was going to get up and go to the gym this morning, and consequently didn’t. And Lucy is about to fall off the computer monitor. *pushes her back* There, now she’s not anymore. Sherilyn is worried that my…
spurred on
Spurred on by my sister’s encouragement, plus some gushing email from another friend who’s reading Angles, I wrote 2900 words tonight and am now at 21000 or so total. Nearly at the halfway point for wordcount! Slightly less than halfway through the story — I believe the halfway point is somewhere between 7500-10K words out, whereas the wordcount halfway point is a mere 4000 or so words out. Still, I should reach halfway in wordcount by Thursday, I think (I have to edit more US before I can write more…
nice photo
This is a _very_ nice photo of Elijah Wood (Frodo), taken by Viggo Mortensen, who plays Aragorn.