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Book Two Typed!

It’s three in the morning, and I just finished typing the second novel in my fantasy series! It’s 276 pages long (pre-editing) and 133,884 words (again, pre-editing). It’s just slightly shorter than the other two completed novels in the series, but that’s not a big deal. When hand-writing the whole mess, I was actually afraid it may end up being longer since it felt that way. I might’ve rushed the Continue reading

Halfway point

I’ve hit the halfway point in typing up the second novel in the Solennelle & O series. I come to this conclusion based on the fact that there are 480 pages written in notebooks and I’ve just typed up to page 243. I’m taking a brief break mostly just to let my neck get back into a more natural position. Typing from the notebooks means looking to the side all the time as I type to read what’s written on the page. It gives me a kink in my neck after a while, as you can imagine. Still, I’m happy to have gotten to the halfway point. I don’t guess I’ll have this ready for publication anytime soon though. I’ve been far too distracted by watching war documentaries, reading manga, and crocheting. The sinus trouble thanks to the spring isn’t helping my typing much either. The headaches brought on by sinus pressure just behind my eyes make me not want to stare at a monitor all that long. Still, any progress is good. A couple more Tylenol means a couple more chapters. Maybe I’ll get another chapter churned out tonight before joining the ill husband in bed.

Second Time’s a Charm

The third book in the Solennelle & O series has been published…sort of. It’s up on Lulu.com but it’s not accessible via public means. It’s up there only so I know it’s uploaded and in working condition so I can get a copy to edit from. It’s not even technically done. This will be the only copy where there are no quotations heading each chapter. I simply didn’t have the time to find Continue reading

131 pages

Looking at 131 pages of 10-pt Times New Roman font with 0.5″ margins could be pretty daunting, but now that I’ve finished editing all 131 pages, it’s not so looming. Of course, it’ll take a while to make all these changes on the computer. I have noticed there are more corrections in the early part of the document than in the latter parts, but that’s probably because I had really gotten Continue reading

Typing typing typing

I just finished typing up the contents of the first notebook for my second novel, Two’s Company, Twenty-five’s an Army. It’s in three notebooks, one of which is only half full. It’s a total of 480 pages, though those pages aren’t the full-sized notebook page of 8 1/2″ by 11″. These are more like 5″ by 8″. Small pages. So there are 192 pages per notebook, and with the first one typed up, Continue reading

NaNoWriMo 2009 is over!

I won! Well, technically, I won NaNoWriMo several days ago, but I figured now that the event is over, I need to officially declare that. I’d post an icon with official NaNo art on it to declare that I won like I did last year, but uh, we recently wiped my computer and I don’t have the settings for my ftp program set up to allow me to upload images to our server. It happens. Still, I’m a little Continue reading

50k? Check.

Well, some of you may have noticed that my NaNoWriMo word count bar graph to the left of the posts has gone over 50,000 words for this year’s writing event. Woohoo! I did that late last night prior to attempting to go to bed only to get up, play Phoenix Wright games for several hours, and then finally conk out sometime around four. Since getting up, I’ve beaten the game I Continue reading

Wordsplosion

I spent about six hours crocheting today. Yeah, my one day off before an eight-day stretch into the end of next week and I spent most of it playing with yarn instead of writing. It wasn’t necessarily that I didn’t have ideas to write down, but I felt like crocheting. Now I’m trying to break 30k words before midnight so I’m still roughly in the same vicinity as last year’s tally for today: 31,899. The thing is, I don’t think that I’ll be even able to attempt to keep up past tonight, however. The total for November 12 last year was 40,173. With work tomorrow all afternoon and evening, there’s no way I’ll be writing over 8,000 words! It stays pretty ridiculous after that too: 45,624; 52,362 (2 days in a row) then jumping up to 61,598… Well, you get the picture. I obviously had a word explosion last year around this time that I simply will not be able to match this year. After all, last year I was working only 15-20 hours a week. This year, I’m working full-time plus all the other random stuff I do for work. Add to that not feeling particularly well for the past week or so, and there’s no way I’ll be able to do more than simply average 1000-2000 words a day on most days. Today, I’ve written about 4,000 words and hope to write more before the day’s out. That’s on a good day ’cause I’ve been off all day. That’s not happening again until the 20th. :/ Oh well, I’m gonna see if I can finish off chapter six real quick then try to get closer to the real plot of the story before too long. I had this problem with Book Two: too much lead-in for the actual action. Madness. At any rate, have a fun night!

Plotlines

I’ve still only just written half of Book Four’s prologue, half of its chapter one, all of chapter two, and nothing else. While that doesn’t seem like much to me, I at least take consolation in the knowledge that I have a pretty good outline and a really good sense of where the story is going. Yet even with my awesome outline and my keen sense of direction (excepting being inside large Continue reading