Lane Robins (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lanerobins) wrote,@ 2009-03-31 22:50:00 |
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March 2009
So March utterly got away from me. This is beginning to sound like a familiar refrain.
I had wanted to write 40,000 words this month, but failed to calculate the difference between writing novels and revising novels. It's easy to watch word count go up, up, up when you're writing. There's no good way I've found to calculate wordage while revising.
So for my 40K goal? I got 22K written to finish up the rough draft of the Beasts.
I got 3K to finish up the Devil story, which needs a title.
And I wrote 2K in the new novel.
Then I got sick and discovered (again!) that my brain is purely incapable of thinking while coated in mucus. I'm such a wuss when it comes to colds; I retire to my bed, trailing tissues, live in my pjs, and do nothing but watch television, sleep, and be buried in cats who keep testing that I'm alive. (Can we eat her yet? Nope, not dead yet.) Did I mention I watched the ENTIRE SEASON THREE of Criminal Minds? That show is addictive. I just wish it had subtitling. Actually I wish all television shows had subtitling.
I didn't even manage much reading, but luckily what I read was choice.
Deathwish by Rob Thurman
Living with Ghosts by Kari Sperring
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Other than that I've been reading Alpha submissions--a lot of talented teens out there! Alpha workshop, for those interested, is a writer's workshop geared for teenagers, held annually in PA. I wish I'd had the option for things like that when I was a teen.
So the plan for April:
Do a lot of happy dancing! Both Sins & Shadows and Kings & Assassins are due out this month. I may explode with joy. I may also take up carrying the books with me wherever I go and accosting people on the streets. Be afraid. There was just a poll in Kansas City that asked 12 people what they liked to read, and 3 of them said they didn't read. At all. I figure this is as close as I will ever come to understanding that half-pitying, half-aghast expression that shows up on bible-thumpers faces when they start pitching religion to me.
Finish the revisions for Sylvie 2, including a new title. Dead & Gone sounded so nice, too! But the new Sookie book beat me to it. So new title to go with lots and lots of new prose. Ah, revisions.
I also need to get off my butt and finish up two short stories for the CSSF workshop deadline (April 15).
And I need to get 2 more chapters done in the new book.
Plus get the outline for the new pet project finished up so I can start working on that in my spare moments.
Don't really have a word count goal to shoot for. Revisions take precedence over pretty much everything else. But I'd still like to hit at least 20K.
Read more. The TBR shelf is getting out of control again.
So March utterly got away from me. This is beginning to sound like a familiar refrain.
I had wanted to write 40,000 words this month, but failed to calculate the difference between writing novels and revising novels. It's easy to watch word count go up, up, up when you're writing. There's no good way I've found to calculate wordage while revising.
So for my 40K goal? I got 22K written to finish up the rough draft of the Beasts.
I got 3K to finish up the Devil story, which needs a title.
And I wrote 2K in the new novel.
Then I got sick and discovered (again!) that my brain is purely incapable of thinking while coated in mucus. I'm such a wuss when it comes to colds; I retire to my bed, trailing tissues, live in my pjs, and do nothing but watch television, sleep, and be buried in cats who keep testing that I'm alive. (Can we eat her yet? Nope, not dead yet.) Did I mention I watched the ENTIRE SEASON THREE of Criminal Minds? That show is addictive. I just wish it had subtitling. Actually I wish all television shows had subtitling.
I didn't even manage much reading, but luckily what I read was choice.
Deathwish by Rob Thurman
Living with Ghosts by Kari Sperring
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Other than that I've been reading Alpha submissions--a lot of talented teens out there! Alpha workshop, for those interested, is a writer's workshop geared for teenagers, held annually in PA. I wish I'd had the option for things like that when I was a teen.
So the plan for April:
Do a lot of happy dancing! Both Sins & Shadows and Kings & Assassins are due out this month. I may explode with joy. I may also take up carrying the books with me wherever I go and accosting people on the streets. Be afraid. There was just a poll in Kansas City that asked 12 people what they liked to read, and 3 of them said they didn't read. At all. I figure this is as close as I will ever come to understanding that half-pitying, half-aghast expression that shows up on bible-thumpers faces when they start pitching religion to me.
Finish the revisions for Sylvie 2, including a new title. Dead & Gone sounded so nice, too! But the new Sookie book beat me to it. So new title to go with lots and lots of new prose. Ah, revisions.
I also need to get off my butt and finish up two short stories for the CSSF workshop deadline (April 15).
And I need to get 2 more chapters done in the new book.
Plus get the outline for the new pet project finished up so I can start working on that in my spare moments.
Don't really have a word count goal to shoot for. Revisions take precedence over pretty much everything else. But I'd still like to hit at least 20K.
Read more. The TBR shelf is getting out of control again.
