Milestone after milestone today. One: I hit the tipping point. Tomorrow’s chapter is 100% Bonus Chapterage. Two: I hit 25K on the book. In fact, I broke 26K, but it’s the 25K that’s statistically significant. Three: I hit 100K words for the year. Also, bizarrely, I wrote exactly the same number of words today as I did yesterday. I don’t remember ever doing that before. ytd wordcount: 100,300 miles to Minas Tirith: 170.5
tipping point
I’m aiming for 3K a day writing, but I’ve been doing (thanks to word wars) more like 3500. Which isn’t a lot more, but it adds up to an extra chapter a week, so if I continue with it, that’ll cut an entire week off the writing time for the book. Anyway, I’m almost at the tipping point–I’ve gotten 2/3rds of an extra chapter written so far, and while I probably won’t actually roll over into the sixth chapter until Friday, the fact that I’m on the cusp is sort…
contest winner
Holy crap. Only three people entered the TPC give-away contest, but they did a bloody fantastic job. In the end, I’ve chosen the one with my favorite suggestion for Belinda, although some of the other casting ideas were inspired. So the winner is Thao Nguyen from Facebook, who gave the following cast for THE QUEEN’S BASTARD: Belinda – Michelle Trachtenberg Javier – Kyle Schmid Lorraine Walter – Tilda Swinton Eliza Beaulieu – Natalie Portman Lord Drake – Eric Braeden Marius Poulin – Henry Cavill Sacha Asselin – Paul Walker Sandalia…
books! contests! books!
I have received in the mail a small box of A FANTASY MEDLEY and a large box of THE PRETENDER’S CROWN. The TPC contest is still open for about four more hours, so if you want to cast THE QUEEN’S BASTARD as a way to potentially win a copy, you should hasten to do that. Many people said “Gosh, I could do this with the Old Races or the Walker Papers”, and so, because there will be no more Negotiator books, I will give you the opportunity to win a…
i cannot brain, i has teh dum
There’s a…like a center of gravity. A vortex, but that’s not the word. Not counterweight, either. Where you’re the person or thing which causes other things to be drawn to it, so change can be affected. There’s a word for that. I will send a copy of THE PRETENDER’S CROWN to whoever can come up with the word I’m looking for. *Argh*. *shakes brain in frustration* eta: I think got closest to what I’m after first, with ‘fulcrum’. A fulcrum point from which everything else swings. I think that’s ……