Title: Blade and Bone
Words Total: 4900
Words Today: 694
Reason for stopping: The first draft is done. It's a very drafty first draft but it's done.
Wordage I liked: "Tell me why I shouldn't destroy every bone in your hands. Why I shouldn't slit your wrists and leave you to bleed out on the floor."
His gaze traveled her robe-covered body. "You could do that before I stopped you?"
She pulled the bone comb from her hair, burying its point in the table and grabbed his hand again before he could react. His hands grew cold beneath hers.
Things to discover: What my Alpha reader thinks of it.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Progress - July 13, 2011
Title: Blade and Bone
Words Total: 4206
Words Today: 906 (403 at Little Bean/503 tonight)
Reason for stopping: Little Bean - I needed to pick up my CSA share. Since a friend was meeting me there, I had to stop. Tonight - I think I'm approaching the end of the first draft and my brain is too tired to work it out tonight.
Wordage I liked: As he tried to wrench his hand free, she let the smallest trace of her power slide along their connection. She focused it on the knuckle of his little finger, twisting the joint until it swelled and purpled.
Things to discover: What Alya is going to do.
Words Total: 4206
Words Today: 906 (403 at Little Bean/503 tonight)
Reason for stopping: Little Bean - I needed to pick up my CSA share. Since a friend was meeting me there, I had to stop. Tonight - I think I'm approaching the end of the first draft and my brain is too tired to work it out tonight.
Wordage I liked: As he tried to wrench his hand free, she let the smallest trace of her power slide along their connection. She focused it on the knuckle of his little finger, twisting the joint until it swelled and purpled.
Things to discover: What Alya is going to do.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Progress - July 10, 2011
Title: Blade and Bone
Words Total: 3300 (For some reason, the program gave me the wrong number last time.)
Words Today: 423
Reason for stopping: I need to work out a few more things before I can go on
Wordage I liked: Alya stopped and rose from the chair. Taking up the candle, she lit all the others so the room held no shadows.
"Why?" Toreel asked from his place near the door.
She returned the candle to the dressing table, then turned to look at him. "I need to see your face while we talk."
Things to discover: The truth
Words Total: 3300 (For some reason, the program gave me the wrong number last time.)
Words Today: 423
Reason for stopping: I need to work out a few more things before I can go on
Wordage I liked: Alya stopped and rose from the chair. Taking up the candle, she lit all the others so the room held no shadows.
"Why?" Toreel asked from his place near the door.
She returned the candle to the dressing table, then turned to look at him. "I need to see your face while we talk."
Things to discover: The truth
Friday, July 8, 2011
Progress - July 8, 2011
Title: Blade and Bone
Words Total: 3366
Words Today: 637
Reason for stopping: Finished a scene and I'm getting hungry
Wordage I liked: The signet ring flashed in the candlelight as he tossed it to her. She caught it in her free hand, glancing at it to ensure it was hers, before placing it on the table.
He raised an eyebrow. "From its condition, I would think you wear the ring often."
Alya kept her eyes on him as he took another step closer. Nothing about this felt right.
Things to discover: What the prince really wants from Alya. What Alya won't do.
What I discovered: Writing seduction scenes in a public place is like reverse voyeurism. Even sitting with my back to the wall, I get nervous that someone will read over my shoulder.
Words Total: 3366
Words Today: 637
Reason for stopping: Finished a scene and I'm getting hungry
Wordage I liked: The signet ring flashed in the candlelight as he tossed it to her. She caught it in her free hand, glancing at it to ensure it was hers, before placing it on the table.
He raised an eyebrow. "From its condition, I would think you wear the ring often."
Alya kept her eyes on him as he took another step closer. Nothing about this felt right.
Things to discover: What the prince really wants from Alya. What Alya won't do.
What I discovered: Writing seduction scenes in a public place is like reverse voyeurism. Even sitting with my back to the wall, I get nervous that someone will read over my shoulder.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Progress - July 6, 2011
Title: Blade and Bone
Words Total: 2237
Words Today: 203
Reason for stopping: Finished a short scene and I needed to pick up my CSA share
Wordage I liked: Rumor had it Prince Chard enjoyed the finer things - beautiful women, rich food, anything exotic or one of a kind. Rumor didn't tell the whole story.
Things to discover: What the prince wants. Why Toreel needs to hide from the prince. What Alya won't do.
Words Total: 2237
Words Today: 203
Reason for stopping: Finished a short scene and I needed to pick up my CSA share
Wordage I liked: Rumor had it Prince Chard enjoyed the finer things - beautiful women, rich food, anything exotic or one of a kind. Rumor didn't tell the whole story.
Things to discover: What the prince wants. Why Toreel needs to hide from the prince. What Alya won't do.
Long time gone
I'm finally writing more regularly. I discovered a coffee shop a few blocks from the bus terminal with good coffee and cake, tables, sofas and an atmosphere that my muse enjoys. (She also likes the root beer they sell.)
I'm taking a page from a number of other writer's blogs and will post progress reports on whatever I'm currently writing.
See the next rock for the first of these.
I'm taking a page from a number of other writer's blogs and will post progress reports on whatever I'm currently writing.
See the next rock for the first of these.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Plans
Ah my poor neglected blog. I'm sorry to have been away so long.
It's a sign of my lack of writing (and a few other things that have been taking my energy and attention.) One of my plans for this year - which is still to be named - is to be a more consistent blogger. And to do that, I need to actually be writing.
To get back into the routine of daily writing, A Writer's Book of Days and I are keeping company again. I will be practice writing daily using the prompts in the book. So far, I've done the WP both days this year.
My goal for January is to work on my fiction three days a week. I'm going to work on a YA piece I began but didn't finish in time for a recent anthology.
So, if anyone else is still reading this, there will be updates much more regular. Writer's honour.
It's a sign of my lack of writing (and a few other things that have been taking my energy and attention.) One of my plans for this year - which is still to be named - is to be a more consistent blogger. And to do that, I need to actually be writing.
To get back into the routine of daily writing, A Writer's Book of Days and I are keeping company again. I will be practice writing daily using the prompts in the book. So far, I've done the WP both days this year.
My goal for January is to work on my fiction three days a week. I'm going to work on a YA piece I began but didn't finish in time for a recent anthology.
So, if anyone else is still reading this, there will be updates much more regular. Writer's honour.
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