Archive for April, 2003
1011 so far today. Nap, shower, put away laundry and maybe I can get another 500 words or so. When I finish this scene, I'll have Chapter 17 of Born of Silence completed. Watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets DVD last night. I think the best part was the scenes that were cut. [...]
1020 words today. I actually started on the scene I’ve been ruminating about rather than work on more world building. Since I’ve finished the master level world building Dare at Forward Motion, I’ve gone to the Journeyman level and started anew. That means an additional 6k words on the Sanguire or on other plots and [...]
1247 words today. Brings my week total to only 5272 cuz I didn't write for three days. However, my daily average is only 350 words in the hole since I had some overflow, so it doesn't look all that bad. No more slacking, regardless of work schedules. The crisis has appeared to pass, so it [...]
Graveyard only sucks when you have to go back to swing shift two days later. Yesterday, I did nothing but try to stay awake after 4 hours sleep so I could be up in time this morning. Get to do it again Thursday morning since I work graveyard Wednesday night. Woo hoo . . . [...]
So, I looked over the last scene I wrote. Alle ist gut. Then I check the outline to see what's next. No problema. (How's that for mixing languages? Heh.) But as I prepare to work on the next scene I notice something is missing. It's time for the Council to get together. Bethany knows of [...]
Hah! I knew it! (But then, isn't everybody's boss a dork?) Last night he called work and had me get hold of the supervisor that was working tonight. Wanted her to come in at 7am instead of noon. Which left no supervisor working tonight. I didn't realize it at the time he called. Wasn't until [...]
I've been asked about what the hel it is, so here's the skinny. The Sanguire Encyclopedia is basically my world building tool for Born of Silence and all the other odds and ends. The main goal here is to have an easy to search database for those sudden questions three books later. (Wait! Did Elisibet [...]
W00T! 22,381 in 21 days! I had a couple of rocky parts when Castle Walls came in to be edited, but so far so good. Of these words, I’ve completed five chapters for Born of Silence and will finish a sixth one by early tomorrow. Six chapters in just over three weeks is a major [...]
1545 words on Born of Silence! W00T! PLUS I finished all of Castle Walls edits and sent it back to my editor. Yeah, baby! Who’s yo daddy?
There appears to be someone on the streets of Portland that looks like me. Whoever it is hangs out between the South Park Blocks and Pioneer Square. A couple of weeks ago, I was enroute to Coffee People, my favorite writing haunt. It was raining and I was standing underneath an awning a few feet [...]
. . . nibbling on my arm. Amber's not a lap kitty by any means. So she has a wooden chair next to my office chair where she hangs out (since I'm mean and won't let her on the desk.) When she wants attention, she'll swat at my arm and, if I continue to ignore [...]
You are a narrative writer. Usually a writer ofstories rather than poetry, you grew up readingShakespeare’s less popular and heard of plays–like King Lear or the Henry series. Yourwriting contains a certain order andorganization–be it chronological or otherwise.If you are to write poetry, it has to convey alogical (or perhaps unreal) story with somesort of [...]
Just over a thousand today. Thank the gods for the Sanguire Encyclopedia! I got three hundred words in when I realized Margaurthe was commenting on the general structure of Sanguire society. And it occured to me . . . "I have no clue what she's talking about!" So I had to research it. LOL! I [...]
Only 769 words today. About two hundred of that is the last of Castle Walls edits. The rest I did at Coffee People on Born of Silence. I’m having difficulty slipping from a medieval fantasy to contemporary vampires (go figure!) I had the same problem the last time I went through CW. Took me three [...]
Final count – 239 total. I know, I know. Not a grand. But I claim extenuating circumstances! My editor finally got Castle Walls back to me for the next round of edits and that’s how much I’ve added throughout. I’ve only 60 pages left to go (from 188.) I’m still in advance of what I [...]
