Final tally. Got into a small snag. I know where I was last chapter, I know where I want to go by the end of THIS chapter, but had to find some way to transition between the two.
Jenna (Whiskey) is feeling her oats, and is beginning to realize she has some pull with the pack of Sanguire youngsters she’s fallen in with (though she still doesn’t know that’s what they are.) She’s throwing her weight around with the leader and it’s going to result in some unpleasantness soon. It wasn’t until I lay down for a nap that I figured where the scene was heading.
After the next couple of scenes, the original writing will be completed. The next 25 scenes are strictly edits. Maybe I will be finished by the end of next week!
I succumbed to another organic mocha today. Ugh. I hate being allergic to dairy and too much of a purist to ask for soy. Ah, well. I’ve got four days to recuperate before I head back to the Grind (*snicker*) for more writing. I’m going to meet my friend, Steph, there. Haven’t seen each other since . . . last March? Sheesh. And we live in the same city!
As promised. . .
2363 words today, chapter seventeen complete. I’m leaving early tomorrow morning for another round at Urban Grind. I think I’ll go for chai or green tea this time . . . my tummy’s not pleased with the mocha today. (For the record, it never is. Doesn’t stop me from torturing myself every once in a while.)
(And I just discovered my caps shift doesn’t work with my iJournal on this iBook. Bummer. I’ll update at the website.)
LOTS been happening here. Mostly work. But this next month is supposed to be slower than molasses so I’ll have some extra days off. Not good for the paycheck, but fantastic for the RA recuperation and writing!
Obviously, from the first paragraph, you can deduce that I have an iBook now. It’s a few months old (my wife’s. We replaced hers,) but fine and dandy for me! I’ve actually gotten writing done after work!! WOOT! Part of my problem has been an inability to wander off to Coffee People and write—my new Palmie, while nifty in the extreme, doesn’t have a Dvorak keyboard driver for the keyboard. No Dvorak, no type, no writing. It’s been the cause of a year’s worth of dead time. By the time I arrive home at work, I get too comfortable and nothing gets done unless it’s my day off.
That’s changed, though. When I’m positive I’m going to get off work on time (or early! SQUEE!) I bring the iBook to work and hit the coffee shop on the way home. It hasn’t doubled my production by any means, but 500 words two or three days a week is better than none.
Right now I’m drinking an organic mocha with a touch of cayenne pepper in it. Not at Coffee People, my favorite place to be, but at the Urban Grind in the Pearl District. Yesterday I went to CP after work but it was packed (misty rainy weather brings out the coffee drinkers.) So no writing cuz I went home. Today’s a day off, and I figured I’d check out the local hot spots with wi-fi and get some writing done.
Rewrites on Born of Silence are going well now. I’ve added over ten chapters of new material and have three more new scenes to write before another spate of editing only. I’d like to get these three scene written this weekend (or the lion’s share anyway) so I can whip through the edits. A couple of weeks ago I blasted through four thousand words in a day.
Castle Walls is up for edits, too. I’m nearly through with them. The publisher wants to add a paragraph or two at one point and I’ve been mulling over the options there. This WILL be done and sent back by Friday. I’m not sure what happens next as far as editing goes. It’s due out sometime this summer.
After that, who knows. On Azrael’s Wings is still calling, but I think I may reread Iditarod. My publisher may be interested in it and it seems that a lot of folks are asking about a book.
Went to see Varrakai!, a Cirque du Soleil act here in town. Very nice. We sat third row to the side. The set was marvelous and the acts were terrific. Lots of aerial acts, though. Had I really paid attention, I would have gotten seats further back. We ended up with cricks in our neck from constantly looking skyward.
What else?
Went bowling for the first time in a dozen years. It was a department outing. Only went for two games before it got too much for me. My highest score was 108. I would have done better, but the ol’ body was starting to rebel. My thighs were killing me and it messed up my already messed up foot for a couple of days, but things are back in place and muscles no longer aching. The boss let me go home early the day after and I slept a solid three hours that afternoon!
My wife is sicker than a dog right now. She went to Seattle to visit her sister and niece. The kid’s sick and passed it along. The wife spent last night on the couch in the living room to avoid infecting me; she was up and down all night. I’ve spent the morning in the bedroom with the iBook and decided to get out of the house for a bit. (She had a fever last night but it may have dropped some today.)
All right. Enough dithering. Time to get some writing done. I’ll try to post a bit more regularly, at least to mention word counts. (Promise, jrosestar!)
I’ve been published for about six years (off and on as I swapped around publishers.) I’ve always been pretty much a POD name, unfortunately. I know that there were some specialty book stores that ordered my titles for their shelves, but not in my town.
I found a website called BookFinder.com . . . On a lark, I plugged in my name. Came up with both PD Publishing titles. So I clicked one. Then I frantically back tracked and clicked the other.
BOTH of my books are at Powell’s! The King of bookstores! Here! In MY town! Mere blocks away!
Good gods! I have to go to Powell’s tomorrow just to be able to see my books on the shelves!
1187 words at the moment. I’m going to can it for the rest of the day. It took a while to figure out how and where Reynhard Dorst would approach Whiskey. They’ve had their initial shock of meeting, and now I’ve got to wade through their conversation. Then chapter eleven will be complete and I can start on the next section of edits…
...which should be durned easy. I’ve got the next five scenes in the bag, really. Just a matter of reading over what’s there and making slight corrections for the new direction of things. Following that are two scenes that are heavily edited before I swing back into virgin territory. I expect to get a large portion of the easy stuff out of the way by tomorrow night.
Tonight we have dinner reservations at a fondue place. Our 18th anniversary is tomorrow, but we weren’t sure I could get it off. It’ll be fun.
Not much of one, really.
Spent yesterday doing some errands and not much else. I have four glorious days off to recoup some of my losses. Woot!
Added a link to the left called Recent Interviews. It’s a direct link to an interview I gave Nonny at Evolution.
Off to reread Born of Silence edits and reacquaint myself with what’s going on there.
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