Kimberly Sue Iverson's Blog, page 61

Starting in on paperbacks

Going go be working on my Dark Illusionspaperbacks today. I need to get those back into print as soon as I can. About to get started on that.

Word count I started the day with: 45,745

Word count I ended the day with:47,509

Total for the day: 1764 words

Hit my goal with room to spare.

Totally hit my goal.That’s without any editing shortcuts either. I did a thorough edit.I sent Daughter of the Red Planet to Creech Enterprises with 45 minutes to spare. I’m exhausted so this will be a quick note mostly. I got my newsletter out, and will be taking the weekend off. Also had a great day of writing with Anora so I had a lot of works. I’m halfway through the book now and I started April 6th or so? Super happy.

It’s fortunate that I bumped up my editing goal too. That gives me the...

Progress – and reached my goal!

Today I didn’t get as many wordsas I would’ve liked. I’m still happy – anything is something! – about it though. I retraced my steps, tried to work out a few things, and then ended up deleting paragraphs so I could just rewrite them instead of trying to work them out. Made it easier, but it did set me back on words. That’s fine. Not every day is all peachy.

OnDaughter of the Red PlanetI am going through my final read through. I have to reach page 158 today – did it! – and then 237 tomorrow, a...

Gonna make it quick

Making good progresswith the novel. Can’t help but think it’s because my fingers were starting to hurt from the other keyboard. I don’t have gigantic hands so for me trying to type on the bigger keyboards, it stresses my fingers.I’m getting an adapter for the older keyboard to use it. The keys aren’t as high, and the buttons don’t have to get pressed so hard. I do have a decent one I bought (I mentioned it before) for this computer, but I am going to try the other keyboard for a bit to see th...

Just under what I like, but I’ll take it

Always a bit sluggishon a Monday. I was reading the last part I wrote last Friday, and I couldn’t grasp where to go. Then I realized it was because I needed to switch the POV. Another character has been working his way into the scene here and there (he’d actually been in the very first part of the novel, just not physically). Story picked up pace after that. I only had just over 30 minutes to write anyway though so I didn’t getquiteas many words as I may have wanted.

Just under my 1000 words...

Starting to get answers

We’re finally getting answers.And as typical, the way the answers are being given in the story, isn’t the way I had it planned in my head. Or not planned, but maybe I should say, how I expected it to go. I expected the information to come in a much different way, different person as well.

Well, surprise surprise, the story didn’t go the way it was supposed to go. Random thought that crosses the mind: gotta do my newsletter today, lol. So I’ll cut this a bit shorter than I wanted to. Not much...

Tired, but that’s a good thing

Good numbers today. I was able to start on time (almost) so that helped me loads. I got a good advancement in myDaughter of the Red Planetediting too. I have to edit at least ten pages every day to hit my end of the month goal.

I have one month of give in that time in case something happens with Jeanie and sets her editing back, or in my life and sets my editing back. Otherwise I won’t hit my August publication date. So that’s why I’ve given myself until the end of this month to finish up. It...

The plot thickens

Had some very interestingideas hit me for the Guardian of Life series last night. I’m excited to implement it. I swear I’d seen something similar in a movie, but can’t find anything so maybe it was an art drawing. The closest I found to my idea was the “dinobots” in the latest Transformers movie. Love those movies.

Either way, my idea will be different from those. Even if I can’t find out if my idea was used somewhere, it’ll be unique to my story for how it comes about. We’ll just say it’s li...

Word count only again.

Not much to say. Working onDaughter of the Red Planet.

Word count I started the day with:33,455

Word count I ended the day with:34,695

Total for the day: 1240words

Just the word count

Not much to say. Working onDaughter of the Red Planet.

Word count I started the day with:31,857

Word count I ended the day with:33,455

Total for the day: 1598words

Current Book I’m Reading –

Stephen King – Pet Sematary