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What’s Next?

Dec2

As the post-nano emotional hangover fades, I’m looking at December and trying to figure out how to harness all this energy.

Without, of course, burning myself out.

So, what I have is:

  • Edally Academy begins posting on about January 15. By then I need:
    • at least the first 8 installations edited, cleaned up, and second-drafted
    • a web page created
    • at least one ad ready
    • at least three teasers done

  • January’s not-quite-a-nano project is Rin & Girey. By then I need:
    • to finish and smooth out the outline and figure out what, if anything, I need to change in the current iteration to make it go better in the outline.
    • to decide where it ends.

  • I have two submissions to get done in early December:
    • Superhero Romance for Good Mourning
    • 713/Kazka Oress

  • I need to wrap up and send Alder by Posts in one giant mailing of apologetic doom.
  • If I finish the submissions by the 10th, I am going to spend 15 days re-writing Addergoole Book One from the 10th-Christmas. To do that I need:
    • to finish the outline

This would leave me time for a Giraffe Call (it really would). The question is: is there interest? The last one brought in very few prompts and no $ at all. And while I love doing them, if you guys don’t like them too, there’s not so much point.

So, that’s my December and January. What about yours?

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Nanowrimo is over

Dec2

First words of Friday:
“A year is enough. They’ll have moved on to someone else in that time. And besides…”

Last Line on the 30th:
“I have been, from time to time.”

(This: He nibbled on her ear tip. was almost my last line, but then I got ambitious and wrote another 100 words)

I wrote 2,341 words on Friday and 1,770 words on Saturday, bringing my Inner Circle total to 25,312 and my total total to 85,967 (It loses about 100 words in nano validation but those are MS Word numbers).

And it’s done. Well, Nano is done.

What to Do in December and Possibly January will come later today.

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First and Last Words: In which I am stretching these chapter titles

Nov29

(Chapter titles are imperative verbs: Kneel, Duck, Thrust, Come, Hold, Choose, Agree. Each title covers two chapters, one from each POV (there are two protagonists with parallel but different stories), and is the first word of that chapter.)
(It’s either really dumb or really clever or both)

First Lines: Laces were laced, buttons were buttoned. The tunic was deceptive in its simplicity; if it weren’t embroidered in monk’s-tears, she could wear it under armor in the ring.

Last Lines: “For a year.”

“A year is enough. They’ll

(I was having trouble getting to sleep, okay? 😉

21201 words on Inner Circle, bringing it to 81,856 total words.

At this rate, I should be able to get to 25,000 by the end of tomorrow. (84K total)

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First & Last Words: In which I am glad for buffer

Nov28

First Line: Valran coughed and took a wild gamble. “Whaddefuc, ma’am?”

Last Line: …but tonight was an entirely different sort of combat. She slipped the fifteen omeh into the vest and let Vinroth dress her.

(in which I figure out their underwear and loosely guess at their currency)

I wrote a whopping 1350 words yesterday, bringing my Inner Circle total to 18357 and my total total to 79012.

I’m still on track, however; at the rate I’ve been going (an average of 2294.6 words/day on IC; an average of 2912.5 words/day all told), I’ll still get to 25K on Inner Circle by the end of the month!

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Just What I need for Writing

Nov27

Guys guys guys it’s a law generator!

(Link via Seventh Sanctum, which also has a zillion awesome generators)

“The penalty for a courtesan fighting in public is a small fine.”

“The penalty for stealing a hunting bird is a warning.”

There’s also a superstition generator!
“An artist happening upon a certain white flower in a grove of maple trees is thought to predict a death.”

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First and Last Words: Yesterday

Nov27

First Line of Yesterday was a whole paragraph: His hands worked quickly enough that Taslin had only reached for a washrag before Vinroth had already sponged her off, getting the soap off her body and scrubbing carefully at a few raw places where she’d gotten sand embedded in cuts.

(Vinroth needs a better name, I don’t like that one).

Last line of the night: “I think I’m just going to tell you to say ‘what the fuck?’ because it will sound less absurd than continuing to say ‘ma’am’ when what you clearly mean is the other.”

I wrote 2035 words yesterday, bringing the IC total to 17,007 and the total total to 77,662.

Wow.

I also spelled granddaughter “granddather.” Twice.
And I accidentally played with a trope, which was fun.

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