In the defiant spirit of Cherie Priest - who likes to write things in her blog such as Things accomplished in fiction and Things accomplished in real life, I thought I might bring these two items to the table for today's blog post as I really like the way her blog publicly flaunts information such as: Project: Fiddlehead
Deadline: September 15, 2012
New words written: 1669 (it’s a start!)
Present total word count: 1669 words
So bearing that in mind, Mr Smith's kinda goes thus:
Things accomplished in fiction: rewrote chapter two of Turn the Lamp Down Low which brings me to a much better place than I was yesterday (in which I wondered why I was crucifying myself over something so small). I had to get to chapter seven of the book and then backtrack somewhat to get this right so it took a little longer than I really wanted to due to the amount of research involved. I say research, but creating a world from scratch and a magical ceremony that doesn't really exist that's weirder than what actually goes on in real life are not things that drip off my tongue easily. Actually, that's a lie - they drip off my tongue very easily. Putting them into sentences that other people want to look at is another matter entirely. Time to go forwards in time again now and hope I don't ever have to do that to myself again. (Dear other writers - is this normal?)
Things accomplished in real life: decided to rebrand the site here with the publishing company logo in the background (that's the Twin Earth sun/moon icon type thing that's suddenly appeared) and clean up some other scraps that were bugging me. Listened to the rest of Peter May's audiobook version of The Black House (which is very highly recommended from this quarter) whilst I took the wrappers off my page at about me. Not really necessary to make it live agan for any reason, but not doing any harm either. Next up - proofing the magazine and signing her off for print which will push me a good few hours into the evening. Then I had better get started on the next one - or at least have a clue as to what's going into it. Watched John Carter DVD that I stole off the kids this afternoon too. Good movie - don't believe what you hear on the grapevine, it's great fun. Note to self - remember to phone your mother... maybe. Is that enough for you?
Project: Turn The Lamp Down Low
Deadline: August 27th, 2012
New words written: 1,765
Present total word count: 7,342 words
I might have to rework the deadline on this. That date seems a bit close for the word count I was working towards but it might work out. Let's see where we are at the weekend. Just trying to keep focus on publishing in November as promised - to nobody but myself obviously, but still...