28 October 2006
Can I just say...
... the new series of Robin Hood on the BBC is complete and utter pants!!!
There.
I feel much better.
Please return to your scheduled blogging...
There.
I feel much better.
Please return to your scheduled blogging...
27 October 2006
And the Galley is away!
I checked through the Galley of Buying Mackenzie's Baby. Just 4 teeny tiny niggles, added some rather nice reviews I've had and zapped it into the ether.
So now I have to get back to The Balanced Blade.
Oh, and my Nano updates will be on my other blog. The essential cover is already there. *grin*
So now I have to get back to The Balanced Blade.
Oh, and my Nano updates will be on my other blog. The essential cover is already there. *grin*
26 October 2006
What to work on next...
I have my little list on the wall above the bombsite that is my desk.
I know, I know... my desk is my most valuable real estate... but my whole house lacks storage so my little corner of the Hobbitses playroom will not be an exception.
Anyway I have my Alphasmart. I am so-o-o portable right now *smirk*
So, back to my list.
I can knock two off it: Past Lies and 7% and Rising.
That left... four... or so I thought. I suddenly have a shed load more
I started The Mystic's Son on Saturday to stop me attacking my Nano story. However, I was getting too wrapped up in that, and I'd never get to my Nano, LOL
So I'm up to 2k on The Balanced Blade, which has a maximum length of 8k. A fair chunk of it should be done by next Wednesday. It's still not geling at the minute. But I can rip it apart when it's a first draft *grin*
Then it's Nano.
On the 1st December it's Guardian Angel.
There really aren't enough hours in the day... *sigh*
I know, I know... my desk is my most valuable real estate... but my whole house lacks storage so my little corner of the Hobbitses playroom will not be an exception.
Anyway I have my Alphasmart. I am so-o-o portable right now *smirk*
So, back to my list.
I can knock two off it: Past Lies and 7% and Rising.
That left... four... or so I thought. I suddenly have a shed load more
I started The Mystic's Son on Saturday to stop me attacking my Nano story. However, I was getting too wrapped up in that, and I'd never get to my Nano, LOL
So I'm up to 2k on The Balanced Blade, which has a maximum length of 8k. A fair chunk of it should be done by next Wednesday. It's still not geling at the minute. But I can rip it apart when it's a first draft *grin*
Then it's Nano.
On the 1st December it's Guardian Angel.
There really aren't enough hours in the day... *sigh*
24 October 2006
WCP... they say...
...Yes!
Just got the email from Whiskey Creek Press.
They said yes to The Third Proposal to be in the Torrid Teaser line.
Woo hoo!
Just got the email from Whiskey Creek Press.
They said yes to The Third Proposal to be in the Torrid Teaser line.
Woo hoo!
22 October 2006
I'm still loving it...
2500 words...
So-o-o-o not a bad writing day *grin*
So-o-o-o not a bad writing day *grin*
21 October 2006
And I'm still not outlining
So my Alphasmart Dana came yesterday. Plugged it to charge and went out to a Write Club meeting.
The Ent who poo-pooed my wanting one of these little gadgets, spent two hours playing with it while I was out.
And does it work?
Well, after a bit of fiddling and realising that Documents to Go wasn't working and finding out where the hell Alphaword was dumping the docs in my laptop, I added a few words to The Mystic Son... 3000 to be exact. *grin*
Words pile up, it's a little scary. Just shows how completely distracted I am by this laptop LOL
Hopefully, it'll really help with NaNo...
The Ent who poo-pooed my wanting one of these little gadgets, spent two hours playing with it while I was out.
And does it work?
Well, after a bit of fiddling and realising that Documents to Go wasn't working and finding out where the hell Alphaword was dumping the docs in my laptop, I added a few words to The Mystic Son... 3000 to be exact. *grin*
Words pile up, it's a little scary. Just shows how completely distracted I am by this laptop LOL
Hopefully, it'll really help with NaNo...
20 October 2006
And another distraction...
All right, I worked through my Guardian Angel urge by writing a thousand words and setting up the prologue... me being the Prologue Queen and all. *grin*
So I'm ready. I've grabbed 45 Master Characters, looked at the first part of the heroine's journey outline. And the idea for the sequel to The Bone Magician's Daughter hits me... ARGH!
I used 45 Master Characters to write Bone Magician. I think my naughty subconscious was waiting for me to look at it again before telling me about Rede's story. I can see him lying there, ship wrecked on the beach... *sigh* Now I'm going to have to write that scene before The Mystic's Son - see, my subconscious even supplied a title *grrr* - will leave me alone and I can get on with my NaNo outline.
Will I ever get this outline sorted?? LOL
So I'm ready. I've grabbed 45 Master Characters, looked at the first part of the heroine's journey outline. And the idea for the sequel to The Bone Magician's Daughter hits me... ARGH!
I used 45 Master Characters to write Bone Magician. I think my naughty subconscious was waiting for me to look at it again before telling me about Rede's story. I can see him lying there, ship wrecked on the beach... *sigh* Now I'm going to have to write that scene before The Mystic's Son - see, my subconscious even supplied a title *grrr* - will leave me alone and I can get on with my NaNo outline.
Will I ever get this outline sorted?? LOL
18 October 2006
It's Official...
...Buying Mackenzie's Baby is going to print!
YAYAYYAYAYAYYAY
I got the galley through this morning.
The date of release is *drum roll*
19 December 2006
I'm going to be able to hold my book, squish my face into the pages and actually smell it. *squeee*
YAYAYYAYAYAYYAY
I got the galley through this morning.
The date of release is *drum roll*
19 December 2006
I'm going to be able to hold my book, squish my face into the pages and actually smell it. *squeee*
Past Lies has a release date
10 April 2007
6 months and counting down... *grin*
6 months and counting down... *grin*
17 October 2006
I really should be outlining...
I should be sorting my outline for Alchemy so I'm fully prepped to start writing on 1 November and NaNoWriMo. I should be.
So what am I doing?
Daydreaming about the lead character of another story, building more and more of him as I wander around the house, walk to school to pick up Frodo, type away in an ideas document. It's a contemporary with the working title of Guardian Angel. He's still a little two-dimensional as I haven't meshed him with the other characters yet.
So now I'm in a dilemma. Fantasy or contemporary for NaNo *sigh*
And today my first royalty cheque for Buying Mackenzie's Baby plopped onto the door mat. *grin* That Alphasmart will be mine... Mwhahahahaha.
So what am I doing?
Daydreaming about the lead character of another story, building more and more of him as I wander around the house, walk to school to pick up Frodo, type away in an ideas document. It's a contemporary with the working title of Guardian Angel. He's still a little two-dimensional as I haven't meshed him with the other characters yet.
So now I'm in a dilemma. Fantasy or contemporary for NaNo *sigh*
And today my first royalty cheque for Buying Mackenzie's Baby plopped onto the door mat. *grin* That Alphasmart will be mine... Mwhahahahaha.
15 October 2006
Dracula was here...
We visited Grandma Saruman at the weekend and fitted in a trip to Whitby.
I was supposed to go on a school trip to Whitby when I was ten. Decades later... not saying how many... :-P... I finally made it.
Frodo and Samwise enjoyed tramping around on the grass in the Abbey carpark and then running along the beach at Sandsend.
It was a bleak, foggy, surprisingly warm day.
No sign of the Count though.
12 October 2006
Frodo's review
We had a good review today.
Not like the last time, where it was all doom and gloom and can he please leave their school and never darken their door again... ;-)
We know this year will be the decider of whether he can stay in this particular mainstream school. Depending on the review next March, he may have to go to a resourced school. But it'll be resourced within another mainstream school. Which is much better for Frodo and his expanding social skills. That was our concern about him attending a special school, with children with much more complex and severe problems than him.
What the experts currently think is that his delay and learning difficulties are caused by his lack of language. This little bit of information gave me hope today. Previously, it had been suggested that he was globally delayed - that language and learning difficulty were equally behind. But with the hope that if his language delay is tackled then he will be able to learn and progress.
Which is cool. *grin*
Not like the last time, where it was all doom and gloom and can he please leave their school and never darken their door again... ;-)
We know this year will be the decider of whether he can stay in this particular mainstream school. Depending on the review next March, he may have to go to a resourced school. But it'll be resourced within another mainstream school. Which is much better for Frodo and his expanding social skills. That was our concern about him attending a special school, with children with much more complex and severe problems than him.
What the experts currently think is that his delay and learning difficulties are caused by his lack of language. This little bit of information gave me hope today. Previously, it had been suggested that he was globally delayed - that language and learning difficulty were equally behind. But with the hope that if his language delay is tackled then he will be able to learn and progress.
Which is cool. *grin*
09 October 2006
The things I do to live up to my blog...
I'm having trouble with the middle of Alchemy. I hate the middle of books. Hate planning them. Really hate writing them, LOL
So instead of working out what happens.
I polished Past Lies. It's looking okay. I'm going to leave it for a bit longer and have another stab at the end.
And I finished the first round of edits on Nimue's Price. That needs another read through too.
Now you can see what desperate lengths the middle of a book has driven me to... ;-)
So instead of working out what happens.
I polished Past Lies. It's looking okay. I'm going to leave it for a bit longer and have another stab at the end.
And I finished the first round of edits on Nimue's Price. That needs another read through too.
Now you can see what desperate lengths the middle of a book has driven me to... ;-)
05 October 2006
I'm leaving it to stew...
Past Lies is going to sit on the hard drive for a few days, then I'll print it out and give it a proper read through.
I'll probably have Saturday morning with Samwise, while The Ent takes Frodo swimming. So we'll be off to a Aztec theme soft play park. Samwise can exhaust himself and I can read, hehe
So today is the first planning day for Alchemy. Eep
I'll probably have Saturday morning with Samwise, while The Ent takes Frodo swimming. So we'll be off to a Aztec theme soft play park. Samwise can exhaust himself and I can read, hehe
So today is the first planning day for Alchemy. Eep
04 October 2006
Just got to write the immortal words...
...The End
Cool!
03 October 2006
Light bulb moment
So, I'm on the finally final scene of Past Lies... and then one line pops into my head (want to say frond... way too much Stargate watching in my life, *sigh*).
And then it hits me. How the end can be achieved and how it ties into the rest of the book. It had been sitting there the entire time. Waiting for me to notice. It was a complete d'oh moment, LOL
I love my subconscious. Does tonnes more work than I do *grin*
And then it hits me. How the end can be achieved and how it ties into the rest of the book. It had been sitting there the entire time. Waiting for me to notice. It was a complete d'oh moment, LOL
I love my subconscious. Does tonnes more work than I do *grin*
02 October 2006
Chugging to the end
The end of Past Lies is in sight. YAY
Just about 2.5k to write and then the final-edit-run-through type thing, to make certain that it all ties together and makes sense...
...fingers crossed.*grin*
Just about 2.5k to write and then the final-edit-run-through type thing, to make certain that it all ties together and makes sense...
...fingers crossed.*grin*
01 October 2006
Still here, still writing
See above *grin*
