by Mel | Aug 27, 2008 | Writing
Okay so I am heading off to Tassie for the next few days but it’s time to start kicking this wip along anyway. Ideally I’d love to have a first draft done by late October. Given I’m at 40 pages and the draft is likely to be somewhere between 320-360...
by Mel | Aug 13, 2008 | Writing
One revision completed. Yay. I’ve discovered that for this sort of layering, tweaking, polishing pass (rather than one where I’m still adding wholesale chunks and slashing and moving) that being able to sit for a few days solid and do it all is better. I...
by Mel | Jul 20, 2008 | Writing
Done! All done! Every last bit. Done, done, done. But hopefully not like a dog’s dinner. And it’s come in at 396 pages which is about spot on! Yay! And possibly la la la!! A final read through tomorrow for a last typo hunt and then it’s off to...
by Mel | Jul 20, 2008 | Beasties, Writing
Thanks to the orange hell cat as he is being known this weekend, I was awake at seven. So I figured (after a suitable period of blearily eating breakfast and blinking at the computer screen) that I could try and get a chapter done. And now it’s completed. Yay....
by Mel | Jul 19, 2008 | Life
Well, I got through another chapter today. I wanted to do two but somehow the day got sucked up in collecting my tickets for SF (yay), running secret errands with the VT (yay) and then you know, watching Dr Horrible (yay), learning how to use garage band to make...