I did it, too!!!!

Bye, ladies! I'm off on vacation with my husband until next Saturday night, but I hope ya'll had a great Turkey Day; and to also wish Cyn good luck with the rest of November and NaNoWriMo. :)

Hi all! Sorry I've been scarce. Congrats on all nanowrimo work!

The revision of "The Daily Grind" is difficult. I've just submitted "A Singular Being" to Critters with the hope of sending it back to ANALOG eventually.

That's the news, good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.

I finished.

Well, not the entire novel, but as of this morning and after twenty-five days of work, I have 51,648 words under my belt. I wrote damn near 4,000 words this morning.

It's an understatement to say that I'm pleased, really pleased. Everything's falling into place in the book, too-- I have the denouement all planned out (that was a nice epiphany in the car!), and everything else that I've wanted to write will be coming out in the next few weeks (months?).

I'm looking forward to relaxing about this, too. Hell, I might even give myself Sundays off! ;) NOT looking forward to all the editing I have to do, though.

Now it's time to pump up Cyn. Go, Cyn, GO! :D

I just saw a preview of "Stranger than Fiction." It is so good! A must-see for writers. I really related to it. If you get a chance please go see it. I'd like to hear what everyone else thinks of it.

I worked all last week for my husband so he could catch up on all his backwork (he has his own business that he runs from home), so I didn't get a chance to get over to NaNoWriMo until this morning. I love the layout and the way your excerpt is presented in bookform! So, even though I'm not getting the little banner or anything when I'm done (and hey, I started early, too), I went ahead and uploaded an excerpt, and also put down my stats for six days' work (I keep a running daily record at my personal blog). Anyone interested can go read it (it's under Athena_Workman).

Parentheses much in that last paragraph? ;)

Cyn, I read a lot of your excerpt, too. Sounds like a good one! How is your writing going?

The past few days for me have been pretty good, but as I approached the 30,000-word mark, it was really like pulling teeth, going from establishing the story to the need to really get things moving; at the same while not wanting to give too much away too early. And I'm not used to writing this way-- not doing much editing, not going back and cutting huge chunks that don't work just so I can keep up my total, etc. There are already several things that need major changes (specifically, I'm going to change one character's overall demeanor), and I suppose when I'm done with the first draft I'll go back and make those changes.

But all in all, damn, it's good to get back to writing just straight-ahead horror. Also, it's nice to have that feeling back: the one where you're in the grips of a story, and you walk around a lot thinking about it, planning it. Makes me feel like I'm my old self again. :D