Author of spooky, fantastical and swoony fiction and blogger of high strangeness.
Administrative note: the house is much improved, but there’s still a lot to get done, so expect this week to be light on updates. Meanwhile, I stopped letting the house be an excuse to not write, so here’s a word count, albeit an anemic one: Today’s word count: 315 Total: 70,713 And here’s a snippet […]
Read More »Today’s word count: 709 Total: 70,398 The snippet: The buzzer rang, cutting her off as they both looked out of the kitchen toward the door. “Hold that thought,” he told her as he went to see who was there. He couldn’t detect any signs of life coming from the other side of the door, and […]
Read More »Today’s word count: 696 Total: 69,424 The snippet: Hannah looked up at him and felt a profound sadness that she tried not to let show. Why couldn’t she feel so strongly for this guy? He was cute, and sweet, and funny, and best of all, uncomplicated. She thought of all the baggage that Alek must […]
Read More »Today’s word count: 293 (filled in some transitions to finish up a couple of scenes) Total:68,728 The snippet: Alek stood back and watched as she bounced him and did her best to sooth him, until his angry cries subsided into hiccups and sniffles. “Is he gonna be okay?” she asked. “He’ll be fine. Just keep […]
Read More »Today’s word count: 543 Total count: 68,435 Today’s snippet: He remembered the day it all changed, when he knew he was and would always be a doctor. He and Esme were on the prowl, strolling the streets of Berlin. Hunting. They stepped onto a busy street just in time to see a boy get struck […]
Read More »I have a confession: I haven't written anything on Dominion in over a week. There's really no excuse, other than that my mojo has been seriously off since my dog had a seizure last Sunday night and we rushed him to the animal ER. Pete's fine (though possibly epileptic), but that event set off a […]
Read More »I’ll spare you the daily word count and just tell you that I only wrote a total of 2,721 words on Dominion this week. Monday and Tuesday, I didn’t produce any words of actual story, but I did go over the outline and ended up adding several scenes. Yesterday, I didn’t write at all, using […]
Read More »First, my writing progress for the week: Day Project Wordcount Saturday Dominion of the Damned 572 Sunday Dominion of the Damned 0 Monday Dominion of the Damned 0 Tuesday Dominion of the Damned 1134 Wednesday Dominion of the Damned 922 Thursday Dominion of the Damned 0 Friday Dominion of the Damned 2001 Total 4629 […]
Read More »I ended up being too scatterbrained yesterday to get any editing done, but today I made good headway on my novelette-length short story, Dream Child. Among other things, I settled on a new title to replace the working title, and that new title is Hungry Child. I think that sounds a little more ominous, don’t […]
Read More »Instead of posting my word count daily, I’ll try to reign myself in to a weekly report. Here’s this week’s progress (so far) on Dominion of the Damned: . Daily Word Count . Date: Project: Word Count: . 5/9/2011 Dominion 549 . 5/10/2011 Dominion 780 . 5/11/2011 Dominion 1007 . 5/12/2011 Dominion 1273 . 5/13/2011 […]
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