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…
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…