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November 30, 2009

Hey. Guess how many words I wrote today? NONE! HAHAHA! THAT'S RIGHT, NARY A SINGLE SYLLABLE OF FICTION, SO THERE. Ladies and gents and everyone else, I'll have you to know that every single Draft Zero in my queue has officially been composed. And this morning I sent "Reluctance" off to its editor (squeaking in under deadline, BOOYAH), which means that my deadline list is looking MIGHTY FINE.

Of course, any minute now editorial feedback and rewrites are going to come down the pike for...

Well hot damn.

Here are today's stats for the fabulous urban fantasy adventure about a neurotic vampire/thief and her wealthy blind client, now with Bonus! Cuban drag queen and military intrigue:

Project: Bloodshot

New Words Written: 4985 (Some added last night; only about 4000 today)

Present Total Word Count: 94,570 words

Goal: Draft Zero by December 12 -ACCOMPLISHED









Things Accomplished in Fiction: Wrapped it up, baby. Wrapped up all of it. This, ladies and gents and all others, is a Draft Zero.

Things...

November 27, 2009

Here are today's stats for the fabulous urban fantasy adventure about a neurotic vampire/thief and her wealthy blind client, now with Bonus! Cuban drag queen and military intrigue:

Project: Bloodshot

New Words Written: 6680 (YES. THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' 'BOUT)

Present Total Word Count: 89,685 words

Goal: 95,000 words by December 12









Things Accomplished in Fiction: Raised a little hell. Not literally. This time.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Day-job work; further adventures of...

A few things for which I am thankful (in no particular order)

Warm dry home; helpful, hot husband who smells good; fat black cat; swimmy blue fish; wonderful editors; a marvelous agent; amazing publishers; super-cool boss; the Eden Moore books earning out; Boneshaker continuing to do well; distant family having a good time without me in better weather than I'm presently experiencing; a secret clubhouse that serves the world; friends who swing by with goodies today; friends who would totally swing by with goodies today if they were in town; friends who a...

November 25, 2009

Here are today's stats for the fabulous urban fantasy adventure about a neurotic vampire/thief and her wealthy blind client, now with Bonus! Cuban drag queen and military intrigue — and yes, I'm making an early day of it:

Project: Bloodshot

New Words Written: 2594 (not great, not bad)

Present Total Word Count: 83,005 words

Goal: 95,000 words by December 12









Things Accomplished in Fiction: Argued extensively with a seeing-eye ghoul.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Day-job work; went to the ...

November 24, 2009

I give you stats for the dirigible/pony-express story with zombies, the Goodnight-Loving trail, and a 19-year-old Union veteran who's stuck with a mechanical foot.

Project: "Reluctance"

New Words Written: 2885 (uh oh)

Present Total Word Count: 7525 words

Goal: 5000 words by November 29









Details: Aw, crap. Way too long. Will shelve it for now, and try to fix it next week.

[:: headdesk ::]

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November 23, 2009

Today has been packed with work, and yet I feel like I've hardly gotten anything done. Mondays are like that sometimes. Sometimes we realize we've been wrestling with plot bunnies all day and haven't actually done any of our dayjob work, so we must break for the afternoon and take care of that while the husband is off being a ninja all evening — since dayjob work pays the bills and our boss is super-cool and all.

Or maybe that's just me.

Anyway. In between fretting over fiction and worrying o...

At Long Last: or, But I STILL Love PBS

A very nice man from Noffke towing company has just removed the Doom Sentra, which I've been driving for about eight years. I'm sad to see the wee white car go — almost illogically so, given that it is, at the end of the day, just a piece of machinery … one that has given me a great deal of grief over the last year. But it was a piece of machinery with my own comfy butt-print worked into the driver's seat, and I'll miss her all the same.

As some of you know already, I donated the vehicle to ...

"Reluctance" Progress

Here are today's stats for the dirigible/pony-express short story with zombies, the Goodnight-Loving trail, and a 19-year-old Union veteran who's stuck with a mechanical foot.
Project: "Reluctance"
New Words Written: 2483 (not bad)
Present Total Word Count: 3992 words
Goal: 5000 words by November 29





Details: I'm totally going to overshoot this one. First draft will probably top out around 6K, but I can cut it down later. It always takes me a couple thousand words to really find my footing...

November 20, 2009

I've been dreadfully slack lately, tied up in my own neuroses and plot tangles; but I'm finally back on the fiction pony and I actually have some word count progress to report.

I realize it seems like I'm making an early day of it (and indeed, I might well get a little more work done before the afternoon's over), but I'm leaving soon to go play back-up writer at a coffeeshop in front of a TV crew. It's gonna be fun, but that's all I'm going to say about it for now — because the television p...