I’m at 25k words for NaNoWriMo! That’s the halfway mark as far as the rules of the event are concerned. I broke 25,000 yesterday evening after spending the day doing laundry and watching a few documentaries on the Iraq War, totalling about 370 minutes of film. (If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been in a real documentary-watching kick.) The thing is, I don’t like to write new content Continue reading →

Woohoo! I doubled my word count since yesterday! I had had 8,579 and now I’m up to 17,379! I went ahead and posted it to NaNoWriMo since it’s a quarter of midnight and I wanted to make sure this got on today’s rather than tomorrow’s. What I find fascinating is that with all that I’ve typed up, I’m not even done with chapter three yet. Of course, there is a prologue to this book so Continue reading →

I also thought about entitling this post “My husband loves to code too much” but decided against it. After all, messing with the webpages is his hobby, and who am I to deny him that bit of happiness even if he does spend too much effort on what essentially four or five people see? At any rate, he has been playing a lot with RSS feeds, SMS uh thingies, and since yesterday he Continue reading →

Well, in about fifteen minutes (as of the beginning of this post), it’ll be the start of NaNoWriMo. I already have some notes and outlines figured out to get me started on my book. No maps for this book so far, however. I’ll get to work on those probably next week though there won’t be much need for too many maps for this one. I’ve spent the past couple days working out plot details and Continue reading →

I suppose that the break I took yesterday from seriously working on the novels did my arms a lot of good. I started typing up chapter sixteen today and finished it just now. So here is chapter sixteen for your consideration. I’m debating about going ahead and typing up chapter seventeen too. After all, I’m not tired yet, and my limbs seem to be functioning just fine. My left shoulder, Continue reading →

After much pain in my left arm (and eventually the right), I have finished typing up chapter 15. Whee! Now I need to let my arm rest a while. It’s covered from bicep to palm in goat wrap. I’m thinking that reading sounds like a good way to give my left elbow and wrist a chance to recuperate. My right wrist could use the time off too. The problem with trying to give my joints a Continue reading →

I’m a little obsessive when it comes to keeping track of the finer details in my novels. I get so irked when authors suddenly change someone’s eye color inexplicably between books or forget how many windows are in a room or even what year it is within the text. I’m a stickler for consistency, and while I may not be the most consistent person (that’s a laugh), I at least strive to Continue reading →