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The Smell of Hope in the Morning

We’ve come to the end of an era, my friends. Not a particularly lovely era. A dark age, to be precise. We’ve come through the night and a new day has dawned, bright and shining (and misty in Nanaimo) — a new day, and we can have hope again, because change has come. He’s human,…

January 20, 2009
The Grind

Dear gods. I have managed to neglect writing for a while. Not handwriting. Typing. I’ve handwritten some stuff but I know it’s not going to amount to many words when the time comes to type it up. I’m so swamped and I procrastinate like a motherfrakker and — well, you’ve heard this song and dance…

January 19, 2009
off to a good start

Wrote 2,681 words today. Good words, even. That’s 4x my daily goal for January (would be too simple to have a year-long daily goal of 450 words, you see). If I keep this up I’ll finish Bellica by the 15th. Sweet. Torturing characters again. It’s what I’m good at. Happiness is for wimps.

January 1, 2009
Happy New Year! (First Post of 2009)

And, because I hate myself, I’m doing getyourwordsout this year. I’m pledging 200K words. That’s just under 17K a month. Can I do it? Oh yes. I think I can. By which I mean I MUST BE FRIGGIN INSANE. Actually, though, when I looked over my word count goals that I’d set for this year ANYway, I realized…

January 1, 2009
New writing blog

This one I keep, for now, as my author blog. But my actual writing can be found at Muerta's Tears (note it is no longer at LJ). Needed a change.

December 29, 2008
New and Exciting Forms of Procrastination

1. Sleeping all day. 2. Reading again. Currently reading The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro (collection of short stories) and As Francesca by Martha Baer, a BDSM-y novel I’m enjoying quite a bit. 3. Dinner at 3 am! 4. A multitude of sites. 5. Posting in my LJ instead of writing. 6.…

December 17, 2008
Nanofail

Only got 28,274 words for November. Goal for Fimo is 25K words and the entire thing edited. Then I try to get it published. …coming shortly: Fimofail.

December 3, 2008
Half-way mark!

25,486 words done this month; 163,534 words done total. And 87% done with the book. 😀 I love how I have absolutely no control over the story now. It's fully the characters' tale to tell. I'm just typing it out for them.

November 16, 2008
Woo

Finished Part Two! And used Lares as my own personal beating toy a bit more. Always fun.

November 12, 2008
Victory!

I have now reached more words written this year in Wrimo than I did total last year. 13,465 words FTW! Yaaaaaaay!

November 9, 2008