This is me and my manuscript right now.
I have somewhere between ten and fifteen pages left of draft one (my best estimate is twelve but you never know for sure) but unfortunately I won't have time to really work on it for a couple of days yet. I'm still a bit stunned though that I wrote the last hundred and fifty pages within the last two months. I have never and I mean NEVER written that fast in my life. Hopefully the writing isn't sloppier than usual but if it is that's what editing is for.
Well I'm off to return to my To Do List and try not to think about my beloved and currently estranged manuscript.
Happy writing my friends :D
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
True Love Ways (In Which I Gush Over Books)
One of the things I've decided I would do this year is shop at less big name corporate stores. It's been a slow weening process. Old habits are hard to break and I already know where all the bigger stores are. They can be so much more convienent but also less interesting and more like an asembly line so I'm working on it. Slowly, yes, but I'm working on it.
The hardest one, of course, has been staying away from Barnes and Nobles. I do know where a lot of little used bookstores are but they usually have limited hours and then there is that annoying fact that when new books come out they don't have them yet. Weeks pass. Months. And they STIL don't have them.
Sigh. Lament. Break down and drive to Barny's (see I even have an endearing nick name for them, how could I possibly stay away? The course of true love never did run smooth)
Or, as I managed to do this last weekend, take a slightly longer and more adventruous trip down to Mysterious Galaxy
If I read a lot of romance or memoir or something this store probably wouldn't do me much good, but considering that my main genre is and always will be fantasty, I can feel like a good virtuous hipster and drool over new books at the same time. Here is what this trip yielded:
Heart's Blood by Juliet Marillier
--This one looks really good. If nothing else I will enjoy Marillier's stunning descriptions. She is such a beautiful world builder.
A Million Suns by Bev Revis
--The first book in this series, Across the Universe, simultamiously disturbed me and made me fall in love with it. I've been quite literally* dieing to know what happens next.
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
--It's Terry Pratchett. And it has Vimes in it. There is no way I'm not going to love it.
Drool.
Sigh.
Reach for covers, unable to decide which one.
Make a decison. Change it.
Remember that I've promised myself I would finsih draft one of my manuscript before reading any of them.
Oh yeah. My manuscript.
Lunge for my lap top and start typing as fast as I can.
So that's what I've been up to. How about you?
*Ok. Not litterally. It's a metaphor. But still.
The hardest one, of course, has been staying away from Barnes and Nobles. I do know where a lot of little used bookstores are but they usually have limited hours and then there is that annoying fact that when new books come out they don't have them yet. Weeks pass. Months. And they STIL don't have them.
Sigh. Lament. Break down and drive to Barny's (see I even have an endearing nick name for them, how could I possibly stay away? The course of true love never did run smooth)
Or, as I managed to do this last weekend, take a slightly longer and more adventruous trip down to Mysterious Galaxy
If I read a lot of romance or memoir or something this store probably wouldn't do me much good, but considering that my main genre is and always will be fantasty, I can feel like a good virtuous hipster and drool over new books at the same time. Here is what this trip yielded:
Heart's Blood by Juliet Marillier
--This one looks really good. If nothing else I will enjoy Marillier's stunning descriptions. She is such a beautiful world builder.
A Million Suns by Bev Revis
--The first book in this series, Across the Universe, simultamiously disturbed me and made me fall in love with it. I've been quite literally* dieing to know what happens next.
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
--It's Terry Pratchett. And it has Vimes in it. There is no way I'm not going to love it.
Drool.
Sigh.
Reach for covers, unable to decide which one.
Make a decison. Change it.
Remember that I've promised myself I would finsih draft one of my manuscript before reading any of them.
Oh yeah. My manuscript.
Lunge for my lap top and start typing as fast as I can.
So that's what I've been up to. How about you?
*Ok. Not litterally. It's a metaphor. But still.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Rope and Mast
Salt stinging spray, collecting on my face
A wind dried throat, burning with pain.
You grasp at my soul for your saving grace,
Mock my desperation with self disdain.
My lungs are weak like yours. They gasp for air.
My eyes, blinded by wind, squint for their sight.
While skin withers under the sun's false glare.
I can drown too in the sky's endless fight.
You chase your will-o-the-wisp, your siren.
You beg the fish-girls for a a place in their waves,
Careless that their kiss is as deadly as sin.
You flail and you rave, too afraid to save.
I will not drown whatever my life costs.
If you plunge to the depths it's you who's lost.
ps -- I hope the new background doesn't confuse you too much. I like a change of scenery every once in awhile
A wind dried throat, burning with pain.
You grasp at my soul for your saving grace,
Mock my desperation with self disdain.
My lungs are weak like yours. They gasp for air.
My eyes, blinded by wind, squint for their sight.
While skin withers under the sun's false glare.
I can drown too in the sky's endless fight.
You chase your will-o-the-wisp, your siren.
You beg the fish-girls for a a place in their waves,
Careless that their kiss is as deadly as sin.
You flail and you rave, too afraid to save.
I will not drown whatever my life costs.
If you plunge to the depths it's you who's lost.
ps -- I hope the new background doesn't confuse you too much. I like a change of scenery every once in awhile
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Posting at the Archives Today
Hey guys! It's Thursday which means I've posted over at
This week's theme is a wish list for 2012.
Monday, from L.T. Host
Tuesday, From Keriann Greaney Martin
Wednesday, from Matthew Delman
Thursday, from me!
Happy Writing!
The Secret Archives of the AlliteratiWe got a bit of a late start but we're putting together a new and improved Archives for 2012! Check out our new theme weeks so you can hear five perspectives on the same topic every week. And believe, me. We are all as different as you can get.
This week's theme is a wish list for 2012.
Monday, from L.T. Host
Tuesday, From Keriann Greaney Martin
Wednesday, from Matthew Delman
Thursday, from me!
Happy Writing!
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