Oop. Crap. Turns out I had chapter 20 in the complete manuscript twice, so I’ve actually only got an 87K ms. Well, oh well. I’ll see if edits today add any more to that, and then she goes into der mail.
writing, editing, etc
A _mere_ thousand words of writing both today and yesterday: the synopses for the second two books. I twiddled a word or ten in the synopsis for the first book, but it’s basically fine the way it is. So that’s cool. The end’s in sight. :) ytd wordcount: 97,400
AAAAAARRRRRRGH
AAAAARRRRRGH. The GOD DAMNED DOG just ate half the batch of cookies I made while I was on my walk. I even pushed them back on the counter to where I thought she couldn’t get them, but she’s been good about not taking stuff off the counter and so I wasn’t really worried about it. But she ate TWENTY FIVE COOKIES. And then she peed on the carpet when I yelled. AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGH.
HAH.
The Hands of Fire synopsis is finished. HAH! Now I have to edit, and possibly rewrite the original synopsis for HoS, and et voifuckingla, I’m DONE! It can all go in the mail! If I’m very, very efficient, it’ll go in the mail tonight. If not, tomorrow morning. HAH!
not dead!
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…