Writer Wednesday

And because Facebook keeps changing stuff around, I missed this message from Pretty Hot. If only Facebook and Goodreads and WordPress stopped updating/upgrading stuff that doesn’t need to be touched. Now, things might be easier to post with the right profile on Facebook, but a bit of warning would have been nice. Sigh.

About the Hastings story! Since I’m still so deep into Quests and that will take me back to the Southern Kingdoms and I haven’t heard from betas about Kaylyn yet, I think I’m going to stick to Silvery Earth for the month of June. July would be the vampires month anyway, and I’m sure it won’t take long to write a short story before the deadline. In case you want to write something with the theme: the Battle of Hastings in 1066, check the guidelines here.

About Quests, Book 2 has already 19K of story that was  already in Book 1 from another point of view or two, and it’s just the beginning. So I hope it will be as long as Book 1 (46K) which will make the POD version with both books around 90K. Hopefully. The beauty of writing without outlining means I have no idea how long the story will be.

Considering that I had only three characters in mind and no idea of what happened to them, I’d say I’m not doing badly. And adding a fourth character in search of a story allowed me to continue with Book 2. So, definitely not a short story, and hopefully the two books can be enjoyed separately.

Which, of course boosted up my wordcount this month. I have written around 65K, making up for the lack of writing in March. So no “time of great forgetting” in sight for me, and I obviously have no trouble restarting, but if you do, please check how to do it, courtesy of Dean Wesley Smith.

Much like David Farland, I can proudly say that I inspired myself into becoming a writer. I guess I was lucky I grew up in the age of the typewriter and had no distractions. No internet with everything and its opposite, no confusing rules, anything. My critical voice never really developed!