…is one. hundred. thousand. words on this book*. It is not done yet. I have at least two more chapters and possibly as many as five or six. That’s fine, whatever, I don’t care. But hitting 100K feels like a milestone I would never reach. I have revised this book six times to get this far. I have thrown out at *least* fifty thousand words. This is the worst way to write a book EVAR. However, with the exception of one scene which is acceptable in concept but needs work…
Author: mizkit
a weird writer thing
So I have no problem being in the same room with someone who is reading one of my books. You know, a properly bound book and all that. If they laugh I want to know what bit they’re laughing at, but that’s no big thing. However. I. Cannot. Stand. To be in a room where someone is reading an actual manuscript. My parents are down to visit and to proof TQB. They’re downstairs reading it. I don’t even like being in the *house*! I want to run away! Blee! Blee!…
:)
I have just received the following email from , who was proofing THE QUEEN’S BASTARD for me: TBQ I’m not worthy…..I’m not worthy I’m gobsmacked. Yay! *\o/*
oh, wow, hot *damn*
Thanks to my very clever husband and my very clever friend , I have just come up with something *brilliant* for the end of this book. I don’t even know if I’ll get to *use* all of this (oh yes I will because it makes such good doom) but *damn* that’s sexy. *Damn* that’s sexy!
Great!
I left the house today to work at a cafe in pen and paper. Transcription has netted me around 2K words (far more than I wrote) with another couple pages still to transcribe. I may do this again tomorrow. I was not, for the record, asking about whether people would follow the blog because I anticipate some kind of hideous, horrible thing happening because LJ has been bought. I don’t imagine much will change at all, and can at least wish that if things do change they will perhaps change…