So I still haven't finished the Shannon novella. I know how it all ends, but finding time to actually write it seems to be hard at the moment. I'm determined to make a push this week to get a first draft done even if it's crappy. My endings are never great the first time round, so I should probably stop using "it'll be crappy" as an excuse not to ( Read more... )

How's the week been? I have done no writing yet. Work has been busy and I've been co-opted into helping run a Cambridgeshire-based Etsy team, so my evenings have mostly been spent figuring out what the hell I'm supposed to be doing for that. I'm still hoping I can finish the Shannon novella this weekend, and I've decided that if/when I do, I'll be ( Read more... )

Ugh. Monday. Ugh.

Anyway, how are we all? Hopefully everyone had good weekends and did things they enjoyed. My goal this week is to finish the Shannon novella. I think that's perfectly doable; I just don't know what I'll do with it when it is finished. I hate the idea of doing nothing with a finished story, but I'm just not confident in it at the ( Read more... )

How has the week been? I've made slow progress on Phantom Fears, but I do think I can finish it either over the weekend or next week. I've been torn this week between "this is okay, I can do something with this" and "this is shit and I should stop right now." I'm still kind of on the fence, but I'm determined to just finish it and then get some ( Read more... )

I finally settled on Phantom Fears as a title for the Shannon novella, as it has some double meanings I quite like. Here's a less talky-than-usual snippet.

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How was the weekend? Mine was writing-free, but that's not unusual for me really. I did finally decide on a title for my Shannon novella (it's not great but it's a title, dammit) and had an idea for another story set in the Urban Wolf world featuring completely different characters. It's not much, but I'll take it ( Read more... )

And I have failed to meet my word count goal this week, having added a paltry 400 words to the Shannon novella so far. I suppose I could make it up over the weekend, but we have so much house-unfucking and snake-rehoming to do, I'm not betting on it. I think it's partly because I'm a little bored of the scenes I'm currently working on (or maybe ( Read more... )

I keep hoping I'm going to have written action scene for Wednesday and so far it's just talky stuff, but it's getting to the action I think.

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I'm tired because I stayed up too late looking at new vivariums for Ket and I'm grumpy because work. Blah. But! I did manage to get 1k written on the Shannon novella, so I'm feeling pretty happy about that! I have no idea where I'm going to squeeze in this week's word count as most of my evenings are already accounted for. I think I'm going to have ( Read more... )

How's the week treated everyone? My "350 words a day" plan has worked quite nicely so far and my Shannon novella is now at 5k. I'm not sure if I'll have time for 350 words today because work is manic and I have fifteen perfume orders to prep this evening, but the weekend is looking good and leisurely. So I plan to keep going with this and maybe ( Read more... )