The top of the hill
Ta-da I have reached the half-way point (well, figured as halfway in my average first draft page count)! Hopefully it's all downhill and picking up speed from here to the end. Progress - Lily New pages - Seven Intriguing things - More magic Annoyances - all very talky...
Every little bit helps
Despite tired brain and slight headache from new glasses, did a bit of a word sprint after dinner and came up with some pages. Progress - Lily New pages - Four Intriguing things - Worldbuilding Annoyances - Too tired to write more Linear/non-linear - Linear (sort of,...
While we’re talking about noises
Ha, all that soundtrack stuff has reminded me that I wanted to blog about audiobooks. Because I generally like listening to something while I drive or sit on the train or knit or sew etc and it isn't always music I'm in the mood for, earlier this year, I decided to...
Argh
For some reason blogger ate the first version of my "The Sound and the Process" post after saying it was published. And now that I've republished it, it doesn't seem to want to let me set the time to before the audiobook post or alter the audiobook post's time to...
The sound and the process
Heidi is doing a series of posts on preparing for Nanowrimo and has just done an interesting one on making the soundtrack for your book. I too am a soundtracker, which I've talked a bit about previously here. When Heidi said her soundtracks are around 100 songs, my...
Reporting in
Well, I didn't quite get 2000 words. I think it was about 1800. Eight and bit new pages and had to delete about a page and a half, so net gain of seven. Slow going though, took me hours. These characters keep doing unexpected things that require figuring out. Still...
Late late late
I appear to have slept in after staying up a leetle too late reading An Echo in the Bone (the new Diana Gabaldon). Which I thoroughly enjoyed even if it does have ye big old cliffhanger ending and it will be too long until the next book. Yesterday I also bought the...
Contrasts
The grey cat had one of her seizures last night and giving her a cuddle afterwards made me think about my characters and personality types and nature vs nuture. The grey cat is a rescue kitty. I got her when she was about three months old from the Cat Protection...
Playing nicely with others
Finally got the pages done after a day mostly spent wedding dress shopping with a friend. Lots of pretty frocks were seen but she didn't discover THE dress, so there will be more wedding dress adventures in the future. Fine by me. I like looking at the pretty frocks....
Melodrama
I have a sneaking suspicion that my heroine is being melodramatic inside her head. Right now, the muse keeps throwing up songs that belong to her soundtrack and they're all pretty much tragic heroine/lonely ingenue songs. At least, on a positive note, at least three...
