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March 8, 2013
March 2013 DC Drunk Solicits In Three Sentences Or Less…SPOILER-Y REDUX!
If you somehow are able to avoid the internet at all times, and don’t know when happened in Batman Inc. #8 then…SPOILERS…
And it’s because of whiners and spoiler alerts that I wasn’t able to title this post as I wanted to. Here was the original title:
MARCH 2013 DC DRUNK SOLICITS IN THREE SENTENCES OR LESS…DEAD DAMIAN REDUX!
BATMAN 18. This is great. Very sad. If I’d had more to drink already I might even shed a tiny little tear. I’ll miss you Damian…for however many m...
Lit Reactor, Comics Reviews, Other Stuff…!
A new piece of mine went up on Lit Reactor if you missed it, it’s inspired by the Orson Scott Card/DC thing, but it’s mostly an open discussion about where you draw the line between creator and what they create. Head on over and retweet/comment at will!
I wrote a few reviews for CBR this week. I really liked A+X #5, especially Kathryn Immonen and David LaFuente’s hilarious (and gorgeous) Doop + Iron Fist team up. $3.99 is still really expensive for two 10-page short stories, but it was pretty...
March 7, 2013
Novel Madness – Day 07!
Still not feeling great, and had to go back to my outline a bit today and rework some things, but at least got something down! Onto tomorrow, in which I plan to write THOUSANDS OF WORDS!
Today’s Word Count: 606
Total Word Count: 3,209
Favorite thing: badass tattoos!
Inspirational image for today’s writing:
March 6, 2013
Novel Madness – Day 06!
I wasn’t feeling well last night when I got home from everything I had to do, so I didn’t write and thus didn’t post an update. Today was not much better and I’m going to head to bed early, but at least I got a few words down between horrible things like…preparing my taxes. Yuck. I need to have a few really big word days here…any minute now!
Today’s word count: 452
Total word count: 2,603
Favorite thing for today: The stone!
Inspirational image for today’s writing:
some of you know exactly what th...
March 5, 2013
More Awesome THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING Reviews!
Two new blog reviews went up today for THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING – both rate the book 4.5 stars.
The first is from THE PREEMINENT LITTERATEUR and TGWWBK was the first book read in her Theme Month for March – “GIRL SQUARED.”
Caitlin sums it up as: “My love for this book has been like a stick of dynamite with a long fuse. It snuck up on me, and now I am eagerly awaiting sequels and movies.”
The second review is from Miranda from ON THE NIGHTSTAND and she sums it up as “everything [I've] ever want...
March 4, 2013
Novel Madness – Day 04!
Crap. I really hoped to get a good 3k down (which should be about my daily goal). Huge fail. 
I’ll try again tomorrow.
Today’s word count: 240
Total word count: 2,151
Favorite thing: A terrible Star Wars joke that is deliberately terrible.
Inspirational image for today:
The Girl Who Would Be King Awesomeness…
The lovely Tim Hanley recently gave THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING a fantastic review over on his blog Straightened Circumstances saying “The story never goes where you think it’s going to; it’s always darker and more exciting than you’d expect.”
And over on A.A. Omer’s blog TGWWBK gets a nice review and a 5/5 star rating!
We’re also up to 45 reviews on Amazon (US) and have 5 stars! Pretty awesome, kids.
In other badass TGWWBK news – a TGWWBK superfan has purchased every single thing related to the...
March 3, 2013
Novel Madness – Day 03!
A lot on my plate again today finishing a Lit Reactor column, recording 3 Chicks with Sue, editing and prepping 3 Chicks, reading the script for a friend’s graphic novel so I can give him notes (woo!), plus one of the only nights of TV I find myself interested in – Girls! The Good Wife! The Walking Dead (the missing exclamation mark is not a mistake there…the show is better but still fucking hit and miss). So yeah, again, not enough words put down on “paper” but I’m...
Novel Madness – Day 02
Today was another disappointing day from a word count standpoint, but I made awesome headway on fleshing out my outline and I’m pleased with a lot of the ideas that came from it.
Today’s word count: 521
Total word count: 1,429
My favorite thing in today’s writing: Well, it was a structural breakthrough, which is not so fun to list here, but I will say something that helped that structural breakthrough was the song “Buried In Water” by Dead Man’s Bones. Which, if you hav...
March 1, 2013
Novel Madness – Day 01
I’m starting off with between 5 and 10k already down, but just for my own ease I’m going to start counting at zero. Today I had a lot of other writing due (comics reviews, woo!) and some big developments (that were awesome but time consuming) as well as a friend’s band to go see…so not as much time as I hoped for, but that’s the way it goes…excuses, excuses and all that noise.
Today’s word count: 908
Total word count: 908
Favorite thing created: The Phantom
Inspirational Image fo...
