Once is enough to make me attack
Here’s today's progress on my modern pseudo-noir young-adult mystery with murder, medical blackmail, pop culture myth-making, missing persons, and a digital Hail Mary that's become an international sensation:
Project: Princess X
Deadline: January 1, 2014
New words written: 1988
Present total word count: 12,790 words
Things accomplished in fiction: Do NOT try to out-maneuver a girl on the phone. It can only end in tears ... and you working for pretty much free, probably.
Next up: Coffee with the new guy. May doesn't know it yet, but he already believes her crazypants story. She doesn't have to try so hard to convince him. But if she knew why he's coming along for the ride, she really, really wouldn't like it.
Furthermore: This might actually be the best word count I've managed on this project yet. It's not fantastic, but it's ... well, it's traction, at any rate. Maybe I'm finally finding my footing.
Things accomplished in real life: Daily jaunt around the neighborhood with the dog; paid some bills; went grocery shopping; went to lunch; not much else.
Yardwork other: After two weeks straight of rain and miserable hot temperatures, things cleared up yesterday - so the yard is now mowed and the hedges are all trimmed. Well, most of the yard is mowed. But the garden and the beds desperately need to be weeded, and I need to trim/edge everything so it looks tidy. Right now it looks like the mess it well and truly is. Oof.
Garden other: The heat and rain cost us some of the tomatoes, and some of the beans, I think. Everything else seems to have weathered it all just fine. I hope.
Animal-related other: If there's anything more charming than a happy dog rolling around in the grass then I just don't know what.
Number of fiction words so far this year: 113,275
Project: Princess X
Deadline: January 1, 2014
New words written: 1988
Present total word count: 12,790 words
Things accomplished in fiction: Do NOT try to out-maneuver a girl on the phone. It can only end in tears ... and you working for pretty much free, probably.
Next up: Coffee with the new guy. May doesn't know it yet, but he already believes her crazypants story. She doesn't have to try so hard to convince him. But if she knew why he's coming along for the ride, she really, really wouldn't like it.
Furthermore: This might actually be the best word count I've managed on this project yet. It's not fantastic, but it's ... well, it's traction, at any rate. Maybe I'm finally finding my footing.
Things accomplished in real life: Daily jaunt around the neighborhood with the dog; paid some bills; went grocery shopping; went to lunch; not much else.
Yardwork other: After two weeks straight of rain and miserable hot temperatures, things cleared up yesterday - so the yard is now mowed and the hedges are all trimmed. Well, most of the yard is mowed. But the garden and the beds desperately need to be weeded, and I need to trim/edge everything so it looks tidy. Right now it looks like the mess it well and truly is. Oof.
Garden other: The heat and rain cost us some of the tomatoes, and some of the beans, I think. Everything else seems to have weathered it all just fine. I hope.
Animal-related other: If there's anything more charming than a happy dog rolling around in the grass then I just don't know what.
Number of fiction words so far this year: 113,275
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Jul 14, 2013 05:41AM
Ooh, I didn't know you were working on a YA novel (I'm reading this blog late). I'm so glad, and keep at it. As a bookseller I read widely and some of the best stuff coming out is to be found in the YA department, so I'll be putting this on my calendar of upcoming-books-by-authors-I-already-love-to-read TBR list.
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