I’ve just finished the rough draft for HOUSE OF CARDS. It came in at 473 pages, longer than I initially expected, but still with plenty of room for revisions without worrying about going too far over. That’s my fourth manuscript for delivery this year. I’ve got one more due, and if I am extremely, extremely talented and give up sleep and Christmas, I’ll turn a sixth one in right at the very end of this year or very early next year. This ties in nicely to ‘s recent post regarding…
I love my life. :)
My strenuous day today: I got up a trifle later than intended, but was at the computer shortly before 8. By 12:30 I had written 3400 words and gone through email to get the remaining inked pages for Chance. I showered and dinked around online for a bit, then went down into Cobh with Ted so I could go to the bank. I must digress for a moment on the topic of Irish banking. Or at least, banking with AIB. We opened our account in Athy. In order to move…
Ho Lee
Ho Lee Cow, boys and girls. I’ve got a comic book. No colors yet, no letters. But Ardian just sent me the last of the inks, and I decided I’d post the first five pages, from roughs to inks, for people to see. I’ll probably add colors and letters when I get ’em. This is pretty goddamned cool. :) (Mom and I were talking about how comic book scripts are written, and I explained that I write out all the panels the way I imagine then, and she sort of…
pro-cra-sti-naa-aa-tion!
Today has been the kind of day where I’ve never really gotten dressed. I mean, I am wearing clothes, but they aren’t recognizeable as the sort of thing you might be willing to leave the house in. Consequently, I haven’t. I should probably do some laundry tonight. I’ve finished chapters 27-29. The book is 444 pages long and 103 thousand words or so. I have 3-5 chapters left. says if I write a chapter tonight, she’ll do 20 things on her to-do list. I’m going to write about the con…
gaaaah
I forgot how hard this was. I have not been eating at all badly today, but holy crud, 22 points is just not a lot. Even 27 with WPA is … gaaah. And I haven’t had dinner yet. Gaaah!