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Think of the Kittens

Y’all need to buy more books.

No, you have to understand. I want to move into a larger place and foster kittens from the Humane Society, so y’all need to buy more books.

See? Kittens! Just like these! Think of the kittens!

You wouldn’t want a perfectly nice cat taking up with the wrong sort for lack of a good home, would you?

So there you go. Buy a copy of Knight Errant. Buy a paperback, and get the Kindle version free.

Here’s Queen’s Man.

Here’s Captain’s Boy.

Do it for the kittens.

Three Thousand and MEH

Yesterday I wrote three thousand words. I don’t even remember what about. I felt like the story was moving at last.

Today I worked and stayed late for site council and went out to fetch “fast” (it was not fast) Chinese food for dinner and came home and did homework, and now my story won’t move.

Often I forget why I don’t write more. Turns out this is it, or at least part of it. Without the determination to win a challenge like NaNoWriMo, when I’ve had a busy day doing EVERYTHING but writing, I...

Pain in the Butt Only Higher Up

I’ve been having a pain in my side for a few days now. Trying to take a deep breath is asking to get stabbed, and I can’t even lie down because it makes it worse. I’d about convinced myself that somehow I’d cracked a rib or something–I mean, that happened to Eve in one of my books and I researched it a lot and it felt just like what it felt like for Eve…

Writers. Give us half a chance, and some of us will be utterly convinced we’re dying.

I mean, it COULD have been a collapsed lung, right?

But i...

NaNo 2013: Day Thirteen

1852 words today. It’s no way to catch up (I don’t have enough days left to catch up by less than two hundred words a day!) but at least I’m not falling another day behind. And the farther I get from the beginning, I expect the easier it will get to be. I’m pretty sure that’s how my books usually go.

I really hope that’s how this book is going to go. Just write, write, write, till I have a flipping clue where it’s going, then end it. Or something.

Vaguely possible I’m already beyond coherent th...

Thought I’d Lost It

I’d thought I lost it. As I struggled with my words these past few days, I really started to think I’d lost it. That I’d run out of writing.

You’d think I’d know better. I’ve written how many books now? I’ve actually lost track unless I stop to count on my fingers. I know I’ve published four so far.

But when the words don’t want to come, the doubt will.

However, whatevs. I wrote about five hundred words on my lunch break today, and I actually like most of them. With luck I’ll write a bunch more...

Things I Did Today

Things I did today:

Grumbled a lot at my NaNo, but still wrote about 2k.
Ate more caffeinated cookies than I probably should have.
Looked at rearranging the TDP site in anticipation of Kit Campbell’s Shards being released.
Took a Spanish test. (91%. Good enough, though I’d better stop screwing up before I lose my A.)
Yelled at the kid every time she got extremely loud, hanging out in the kitchen while the roomie baked caffeinated cookies and I was trying to NaNo then to do homework.
Chased the new...

A New Addition!

I have a new cat! His name is Earl. I mean, Duke.

Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl, Duke, Duke…

Yeah, I keep singing that.

Today we went to the volunteer orientation at the Humane Society. We signed up for the other classes we want–dog handling, to be followed by dog walking, fostering, and cat care. The cat care class was this afternoon. At the end of it we found ourselves in the cat adoption room, looking at all the sweet kitties. On a free adoption weekend. When I’d promised the child last week...

NaNo Day Whatever

It’s going to be okay. It is. I decided to burn down the village, so it will go better now.

Destruction takes up lots of words.

I’m just tired and not feeling well, so I will get another bit behind. But I will not give up, and I will get this done, and it will be awesome.

Or I’ll burn something else down.

In other news, caffeinated cookies are da bomb, and my roommate’s pretty darn cool.

NaNo 2013: Day Two

Made wordcount again. I just have to keep telling myself it doesn’t matter if I’m getting the characters’ voices wrong. Writing is how I’ll figure that out.

Yes, my first drafts are often more like elaborate outlines. I’ve known that for a while. And sometimes, they’re a map to what I don’t want to do. Whatever I’m writing, mess or meanderings or good stuff, what I’m doing is important. It’s not like thinking about this book for much of five years has gotten it figured out, so I might as well...

NaNo 2013, Day One

This morning I started right off typing, but I only got to 104 words before I had to go to work. Then I came home, made dinner, did a few other things that really needed doing, joined my friends in my Friday night chat that I rarely miss for about the last seven years…and then when that was done I got to typing.

1682 words in one counter. 1700 in another. Either way I’m happy. Favorite bit written today?

“The kindling binds a Keeper’s sword to his soul,” Kez said as Hiro ran the cloth up the si...