Boy, have a girl finish up 300+K words in early August and finish four years worth of intense writing schedule and she just feels all light and floaty and cheerful about the world! Imagine that! So, let’s see, what do I have to do now? – do my revisions on CAULDRON – spellcheck it – turn it *in* – write the WENDEGO HUNTS proposal, & I might as well come up with a new title for it right then, ’cause they don’t like that one – write the IMPERATOR’S HEIR…
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I AM DONE!
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.…
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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…