Just finished the fifth chapter of Lowborn a minute ago. Like Secret, I’m going to let it simmer for a couple of days before I start the first-pass edit.
On that note, I’m going to wade into said edit on Secret this evening. I’ll figure out where I’m going next after that… Or perhaps in the middle of it, as I sometimes feel like taking a break from editing to write. We’ll see.
I’m working on one of the last scenes of Ch. 05 of Lowborn now. I’ll probably finish it tomorrow night, considering how relatively smooth it’s going. I’m still only writing a few paragraphs at a time, but with only a few minutes between the spurts. That just seems to be what’s working right now. Still miss cranking out half a story in one sitting, but oh well. I’ll take what I’ve got.
I’ll probably work on the first-pass tweaking of Secret of the Wood after that. Should have been enough time passed with writing on a completely different story for me to catch stuff in that by then while I’m painting the world in a bit brighter colors and strengthening the Earth Day theme.
My nerves probably look like the hair of one of those wishing trolls right now. The boy has been a holy terror all weekend.
I’ve managed to get about a third of the way through that sex scene in Lowborn, but it’s been a paragraph at a time all day. That’s about how long I have before I have to scream about something else, and then it’s a half an hour or more before I remotely have the presence of mind to type another paragraph and start the process again.
I may have to take a day off work soon to relax before I lose me bleedin’ mind. Hate to do it, because I’ve had to take off so much already this early in the year. I did have a lot of extra time left at the end of the year last year, though *shrug*
Maybe I can make it until my next scheduled vacation in April.
He’s finally winding down, so maybe after he does, and I wind down, I can get back to writing.
I’m a couple scenes into Lowborn Ch. 5 now, and it’s flowing well. Just hit a naughty bit, and figuring out the transition from the previous scene into it. Writing that will fill out a good bit of this chapter. Only about every other chapter of this story has any detailed sex, though it’s constantly going on in the background. You’ll understand when it comes out *laugh*
I should imagine that I’ll have quite a bit of this chapter finished before the evening is over. Once it’s done, I’ll see whether I feel like jumping into another story, or rolling along with this one.
Going to wait until at least Monday evening before I start the first-pass tweaking of Secret.
Off to the store.
I flipped through my remaining focus stories in progress, and Mindblind is what’s singing to me. As soon as I opened it up and read through the brief introduction of the current chapter, a way to resolve the plot block in my head popped up. I wrote that out and finished the scene, so it’s ready to keep on rollin’.
Heard back from the editor who gave me such a good impression read on Forever of the Wood, and she’s on board for Secret as well. More good news for me and my readers. Her insight into Forever made it a much stronger story than it started out.
Now, back to Mindblind 🙂
A little later… Actually, I ended up fiddling with some coding stuff until the young one finished winding down. Finally got around to inserting a new table into my database, though I went with the one for cover images instead of new releases. Easier data set to deal with.
I’ll see about creating a test page to read that data next. I need to dig into both my old code and the forum code to hammer out what’s necessary to pull this off.
Odds are that the first version will be quick and dirty. All I’ll do is see if I can suck the data out of the table and display it in simple text format.
The next task will be to actually show the cover image pop-up as it will appear in the final version. I’ll probably put it up as a preview at that point, using the new cover for Secret as the example.
This page will be the one that pops up when you click on the cover image link from umpteen places on the website. There will also be a cover browser that will let you navigate through all my story covers, probably showing the story information for what’s inside that cover. It might even be an alternative to browsing the story listing, depending upon how much room I have within the template once I start playing with that.
Okay, now back to Mindblind.
