I have just wrapped up CAULDRON BORNE (or whatever it’s going to be called) at an unusually short 103,000 words. This is the first time I’ve ever had a book come in short (the Walker Papers are supposed to be 110K), but it’ll no doubt grow a bit in revisions, and perhaps it coming in a little short makes up for PRETENDER’S CROWN being 180K. :) This means I am *officially* done with the last four years of Insane Writing Schedule. My next book is not due until JUNE 2009.…
Author: mizkit
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THE QUEEN’S BASTARD topped the Locus Bestseller trade paperback list for August 2008. How wonderful and surprising! How grateful I am to everybody who bought a copy of the book in May! (Which is when the list is compiled from, I do believe.) Well! Isn’t that a cheery bit of news! Don’t I feel more like writing now than I did twenty minutes ago! :)
WOOT
I have just reached THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND WORDS for the year. And now I am going to go watch the X-Files movie to celebrate! YAY! ytd wordcount: 300,100
attempting to psych myself up…
I got up a couple minutes after 7 and wandered in to my office to start writing. Felt drowsy and considered going back to bed. Then the garbage men came and I had to run and put the garbage out, and then I thought, well, maybe I just need some fuel, so I had breakfast and checked my email, and, well, now I’m blog posting and am not feeling especially interested in working on my book. I think I’ve entered the Novelist’s Event Horizon. I’ve got just a bit over…
a wash, or not
Today was, by all appearances, an utter wash. I slept really poorly and was too tired to think, so after sitting at the computer for an hour and writing 67 words (two of which were “CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE”), I went back to bed for two hours. I finally dragged myself back to the computer, not at all full of confidence, at a quarter after 3 this afternoon. I figured if I could get a thousand words done it’d be enough. Yesterday, after all, was a 6K day, so it’d even out…