Finally
Hooray, it's finally cooled down. Last night the temp stayed around 27-28 degrees all night. Not good for sleeping. But now we have lovely cool evening with breeze. And it's meant to be nice for the rest of the week. Only two days of which are left before I have five...
Helping out
Today is my official writing day off. Just as well because I am mostly brain dead from the heat. So I have no metrics but I do have this - Terry Pratchett has donated $1 million to Alzheimers research and there's a campaign for the fans to match his donation. Terry is...
Trust the girls
You know, writing and the way your brain puts together a story can be endlessly intriguing. Like today. I came back to a scene that was stalling a few days ago, to tweak it because I tweaked an earlier scene. And this is a scene I wrote the start of maybe three or...
Focus
I may have mentioned before that my girls in the basement can be slightly contrary. They want to play all over the place and don't necessarily care about my views or plans. Like today. Today I'm standing in the shower (a frequent book-puzzling-out location for most...
Speedy
Well, today has been a good writing day. Which you can see from the below. But this book is weird. Even though it's coming fast, it's not like Wolf where I knew where things were going and kind of had the book playing in the back of my brain at all times and could...
Phew
The work week is over. I know it was still only a four day week but working a Friday throws me right out. Though today it was so hot that being in the office in the airconditioning was not so bad. My air con at home is harder to get to a comfortable balance. I usually...
Snoozing needed
Ugh. Slept terribly last night thanks to the orange cat and the very loud cicadas and loud people driving in my street and traffic noise and general mugginess. Finally fell asleep about six I think, then woke up at 9. As in when I'm meant to start work. Oops....
Go forth and be awesome
Today is the International Day of Awesomeness so we should all go out and be awesome. Or stay in and be awesome if it's as hot as it is here. So a big AWESOME to talented Aussie writer Alison Stuart who won a EPPIE for her historical romance By the Sword. Yay! Edited...
The metric system
Let's see if this works. Progress - Witch 1 New pages - 9 pages Other additions - 5 pages when Mel realises a character she thought appears in the next book is needed in this one. Information which may have been useful earlier. Intriguing things - Stubborn and...
Fits and starts
If I can do more three more pages today, I'll be at 30k. Yay. Not quite as much as I hoped for this week but better nothing given the general tiredness factor. I've been trying to write this book mostly linearly but haven't quite got the feel of the world right or...
