Happy New Year, everyone!
Writing on SOTM and Sanctuary, and they’re both coming along well. Dabbling with a few other things as well. Writing throughout the day, so something is always moving at least a little.
Also getting a lot done behind the scenes in prep to launch new content on the website. Still 8 days left in my vacation, so I’m hoping to get a lot accomplished on top of getting plenty of sleep for once *laugh*
Up to 3K words on Sanctuary of the Wood, and about to reveal the main plot that I’ve only been hinting at so far. Right after that comes some fun in the story that I know I’m going to enjoy writing.
Doing well. If this keeps up, I might have this one done ( or mostly ) before the Valentine’s contest finishes. That will be a load off my mind 🙂
Probably going to write the next scene of SOTM this evening. Not much more left in this chapter, and as I said, there are several scenes I pushed into the next chapter that are all but written in my head.
I’ve been looking at a story I started last year as Les called “Violet Valentine” as well. I was at a sort of sticking point, and never finished it, but I think I may have an idea to continue it. Once I’m at a good point on Sanctuary, I may very well see about entering that in the Valentine’s contest. Also have a couple of chapters of a story called “Jackin’ Jill” that I’ve been sitting on for a while as I worked on other things.
And, of course, I’ll finish Lowborn one of these days.
Other than that one day, I’m writing every day on something or another. Keeping moving and motivated — excited about what I’m writing. That’s key to production for me.
We’ll see what this evening brings 🙂
P.S. Figured out what I did with the legalese pages. Real boneheaded maneuver. Still have to get around to restoring them.
EDIT: Woot! I nearly forgot that the underlying software keeps track of revisions. All I had to do was go back to the revision before I screwed up and restore it. Legalese page now working properly again.
Just wanted to wish everyone a merry Christmas ( or, whatever type of holiday wishes you find appropriate 🙂 )
“Sanctuary of the Wood” is coming along nicely. I’m hoping I’ll be ready to post a teaser for SOTM 18 by next weekend at the latest. Working on a few other things as well. I’m writing daily again, and that will likely continue next week, even though the rumor is that it’s going to be a hell week at work.
As I expected, getting excited over the next Wood story got me moving. It’s just the way I am. Sometimes, I need a boost from something else to get my juices flowing so I can work on other stories that may have stalled. No one thing gets done in a hurry, but at least everything moves. With my muse being the way it is, I just have to take the inspiration and motivation however I can get it.
Probably do the coding on the new subsections of the sidebar menu at some point today or tomorrow. That’s the test bed for expanding them for new content sections. Working on the website when the environment in the house isn’t conductive to writing is another way I keep forward momentum flowing, and there’s usually at least once during the day where that’s the case.
The next story in the Magic of the Wood series is underway. With such a long-standing tradition, I start the annual Earth Day entry pretty early, to make sure that I finish it on time.
Working on SOTM too. Right on the verge of being close enough to done to post a teaser on the forum. Hoping that having the next Wood story moving will help me with my motivation. A lot of times, having another story going will do that.
Yet another Friday off coming up, and this week hasn’t been nearly as bad as the few previous, so maybe I can get a run going. Crossing my fingers.
The young one was actually in a mood to pay attention to me today, so I spent a lot of the day with him. It’s a rare thing. He’s autistic and usually spends most of his time off by himself, not really interested in playing with anyone else.
I got a little more written, but not much. Hoping next week is slow at work so I’m not knocked out the whole time, and can get some writing done in the mornings/evenings.
Did a little more behind the scenes work on the website, updating some of my administrative utilities to get ready for upcoming stuff. Everything went off without a hitch, so at least my coding hasn’t gotten rusty since I did any serious work on it.
Ideas flowing, even if the words on paper aren’t. I think I’m going to change some things in Ch. 07 of Lowborn… Again *laugh* I was at a bit of a roadblock that wouldn’t let me get to the ending I wanted the way I wanted with what I’d written. That’s exactly why I changed it last time, but this route only went a little farther than the previous.
The good news is that I won’t be backspacing as much. There are still a lot of good scenes in there that can stay. I’ll really only be changing the last scene of the chapter, as opposed to rewriting it compltely. Then, I should be able to move forward. I’ve been fiddling with this story forever. I’d really like to get it out there. I want to get this one out into the wild before I start on the sequel to Blackhawk Hall.
