thinks to do: – write 1000 words – print & send contracts – email script to ardian – check page #’s to do thumbnail sketches for » Issue 2, p 5, 10; Issue 3, p18; Issue 4, p7…gosh, he doesn’t make many mistakes… – do thumbnail sketches – try to find out about arts grants – answer jason’s email – answer matt’s email – finish. the damned. pretender’s crown. proposal. – cemurphy.net newsletter – other things I’m no doubt forgetting, sigh I have written out a high-level schedule for the…
whoosh.
It has been a very busy couple of days here. @.@ First off, *thank* you to everybody who offered congratulations on the Chance deal. I’m pretty much over the moon and full of squee and also OH MY GOD HAVE I GOT A LOT TO DO AAAAGH. One of the priorities on that menu is “find a new artist”. I’ve posted the following ad in a handful of places; if you know sequential artists, please do send them my way, at least to take a look at the ad: WORK…
What Catie Did On Friday
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…
*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…