Not dead! Wrote the House of Cards synopsis yesterday in a smashing under-two-hours, thanks to my Amazing Plot Machine Husband, to whom I said, “This is how far I’ve gotten in the book,” and sketched out to him to the midway point in the book, and then he took all my idea bits and shook them around and gave me back an overall story arc. Then he shook my idea bits around some more and gave me the story arc for the third book, which is tentatively titled Hands of…
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god almighty.
God Almighty. 25 days of writing, 34 days of elapsed time, 73.8K words, 358 pages of manuscript and a 90K wordcount by 250wpp, and the book is DONE! Tomorrow: synopses. Thursday: edit and send. ytd wordcount: 95,300 (heh heh heh)
writing
Well, I was going along great guns, blew through 2500 words this evening after 2500 earlier today, and was about to blow through some more, and then Chantico, who probably had to go outside and whose signals I’d probably missed, chewed a hole in the slipcover Mom made for our couch, and then peed a little on the floor when I yelled at her. *sigh* So now I’m grumpy and don’t feel like writing any more. OTOH, every 1000 words tomorrow is 10% of the remaining total, so that’s pretty…
while walking…
While walking, I decided I should learn how to write romance novels. This means, of course, reading romance novels. Jai and Sarah have both pointed me at some pretty good romance novelists in the past, and I suspect I ought to read more of them. In my copious free time. Silkie wants me to write the second book in the Old Races trilogy now. I’m not sure I think that’s quite fair. :) Maybe in March. :)
joyful dance!
I do the dance of getting $13 back from the IRS! Hey, it’s a piddly amount, but the last two years I’ve had to pay thousands of dollars, so ANY refund looks really good to me! I also do the rather less joyful dance of the personalized rejection letter from Thorndike Press for Trapper’s Daughter. Thorndike’s one of the houses I had hope for, so, well, drat, but at least it’s a nice rejection letter. Actually addressed to us and actually signed by the editor, which is a big improvement…