I am a writer. I wrote my first novel in 2011. I’ve started 14 more since then, finishing about half of those. One of these days I’ll actually try to find someone to publish them (or just do it myself). Onward!
(If anyone would like to be a beta reader, feel free to drop me a line).
I’m still doing it! Just not posting as much about it.
This time around, I’m writing sci-fi/cosmic horror, roughly based on a half remembered book I last read more then 15 years ago. Good times, no? Once this is all said and done, I’m going to have to go back and take a look to see how far I diverged.
It started with an idea from an annotation on the Darths and Droids webcomic of all things:
A mysterious figure drops an overdue book in the library’s after-hours returns slot. Long overdue. 90 years overdue. It’s a book about the occult, and contains incantations and recipes for drastically extending life. The borrower’s last known address is that old “haunted” house on the hill outside town. Someone need to go investigate to recover the overdue fees…
Take a few hours outlining by hand (which I never used to do, but am starting to see the value of) and a month of crazy nights…
Magical number 7.
My goal is to write 2,500 words again this year, but with two kids (1 and 3) running around, time is somewhat lacking…
Sixth time’s a charm?
So far, I’ve done and won NaNoWri every year since 2011. Can’t stop now.
Let’s see if we can keep over the 1,667 word per day minimum again.
Last year I had a two week old; this year, I have a one year old. I’m honestly not sure yet which is more distracting!
This year, I’ve been going for 2500 words per day (I know). It’s an intense pace, but I’ve done it so far. And, if all goes well, I’ll be done before Thanksgiving. Of course, I won’t actually stop then…
Writing Excuses 10.8 writing prompt: Sketch out the events before and after your dead-drop scene from last week and three weeks ago.
What is in the packages?
Black powder mixed with something that will create lots of smoke. It’s an attack on the temple. When the packages are put into the flames (unopened, as is tradition), they will burn through and explode. As small as they are, it won’t actually cause much damage, but that’s not the point. Rather the point is to create confusion (especially with the smoke) so another agent can sneak into the temple and steal something.
Writing Excuses 10.7 writing prompt: Pick one of the dead-drop characters from the exercise two weeks ago, and turn them into a secondary character. Now take one of the characters with whom they interacted, and write the same scene again, but from this new character’s POV.
My master is not always the brightest of men.
Not in all regards, not in all things.
But he paid for my mother’s transition, when there was no pressing need that he do such a thing. So far as I can tell, he didn’t even know what he was paying for.
And for that, I shall be eternally grateful.
