Queen is up to 2200 words, and I’m about to put Thakkor and Alicia into the primary setting of the story. Once I get them there, the fun and romance begins 🙂
Taking another quick break, and then I’m going to write a bit more on the scene I’m working on for SOTM 17.
Then, I’m going to try to get my problem child in bed a little earlier tonight. I slept through the alarm for almost an hour this morning.
I did a little rewrite on Queen of the Isle, more or less to simplify the lead-in of the story a bit. When I read it again after letting it sit for a while, it felt too busy to me. I stripped out a walk through a city of Agreseus, putting them directly on the ship instead. I removed a couple of other relatively unimportant character elements, and I’m now back up to where I originally left off with a far tighter opening to the story.
Taking a few minutes to blow off some steam, and then I’ll decide if I want to pick up there, or pick up where I left off on SOTM 17. Probably won’t get much done, because my butthead child took a four hour nap this afternoon at daycare that ended at 8:30. Getting him into bed is going to be a nightmare. Trying to concentrate and write with a wound-up child awake is hardly optimal conditions.
Anyway, off to goof around and chill out before I get back to the word processor.
I’m alternating between writing a little on SOTM and Queen of the Isle whenever I’m awake enough and have some time. I wrote a bit on both of them the last couple of days. I’d really like to finish ( or at least knock out a big chunk of ) this chapter of SOTM before I knuckle down on Queen ( and Whispers of the Wood, if I have time ) but I do want to get into the contest, so it all depends.
May start on the next chapter of Lowborn, too. There’s even a chance that I might work on Sanctuary of the Wood and finish that, even though I started writing it for the Nude Day contest.
But, Queen and SOTM have the front burners. Just thought I’d drop a line. Work is still trying to kill me, but I’m at least getting in a few paragraphs on something a day. Trying to get into that habit if at all possible.
Well, I ended up in the ER Sunday, so I didn’t get to finish the chapter. Then work has been a nightmare ever since. I’ll just have to see if I can squeeze in a little writing time before the weekend. If not, I’ll pick up where I left off then.
Right now, I need sleep. Oh well. I guess I did need to put back a little money to fix the heat in my car, so the hours will be worth it when that time rolls around.
I’m at about the halfway point of SOTM 17, and I’ll be moving on to the next scene after this little break.
Things are going pretty good, and the new direction I’m contemplating for how the books are going to progress seems to be giving me motivation. I think I’d sort of boxed myself in with the original plan, and opening my mind to some flexibility is tearing down those walls.
Think I’m going to have to put in a trouble ticket for those internal server errors that keep popping up. It had calmed down for a while, and I thought that perhaps upgrading to the new WordPress had fixed it, but no such luck. It’s getting bad again, and it’s ridiculous. I’m paying for service here, and the server is throwing errors all the time. Time to be a complainer :p
Okay, off to my little break, and then back to the chapter. I’d like to be almost done with it before the day’s overwith, and the scenes I’m working on might just get me there 😀
