Well, let’s see. What have I done today? I admired the absolute torrential downpour of rain, which rained like a rainy thing until it suddenly stopped and sunlight broke over the cathedral: I went to lunch with Ted, and did a wee bit of shopping. I have not done any writing. But there was something else that happened, um, what was it. Oh yeah: I GOT A COMIC BOOK CONTRACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my GOD I have been sitting on this for TWO MONTHS waiting to tell people. My agent, the unbelieveably…
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*collapses*
Email from der agent indicates der editor has only minor revision comments on HANDS OF FLAME. I’m so relieved I could cry. That trilogy has been the hardest thing I’ve ever written. I wrote at *least* five books worth of material. I rewrote HEART OF STONE three times before it got bought, and a fourth time to editor spec. I had to throw out two thirds of HOUSE OF CARDS and rewrite the remaining third in revisions. I tore HANDS OF FLAME apart six times before I got it right,…
good grod.
Jeri Smith-Ready, a fellow Luna author, reached the 300K wordcount goal for 2007 that I fell a bit short of. We were discussing it in her comments and she said, “Yeah, but you wrote 400K in 2006, right?” And yeah, I had. And then out of curiosity I went and looked up the wordcounts I’d achieved over the last five years. 250K in 2003. 305K in 2004. 300K or so in 2005. 400K in 2006. 269K in 2007. That’s a million and a half words. 1,524,000, to be more or…
fan mail
I got fan mail this morning. There are nicer ways to start off a day, but not many. :) It was posted to an old “currently working on” tagged entry, and that reminded me I hadn’t done one of those entries for…ages. :) So I thought I’d do one before I went to work, because, as you know Bob, it’s better to do aaaaaaaanything else than go to work. :) January 2008 (200*8*!) WiP: Writing: THE PRETENDER’S CROWN (Inheritors’ Cycle, Book II) Revising: THE PRETENDER’S CROWN proposal (turning in tomorrow,…
and, at the end of the day…
Actually, at the end of the day (which it very nearly literally is), I *did* make a lovely dinner, did a fair bit of triage on the office, which has only half as many boxes in it as it did this morning, got some more laundry done than what Ted started, got the kitchen sort of clean, *and* I got 1300 words written. Oh, God, and I just popped my back and it popped in exactly the same place it did this morning when it went out, and I think…