Outlined...

Well, I probably got well over 2000 words written at the library, but they were by hand and didn't add any words to my story(ies) -- but they were necessary. Since Mojave Moon ended up "backwards" from my original outline, I needed to do some more thinking on my hero's GMC. I got what I needed (yay!).

Then, because my Alphasmart was almost out of juice and I wasn't sitting in my usual corner by the plug-in, I outlined a quickie I'm hoping to submit to Ellora's Cave by 1 Jan. It's tentatively titled Ruby's Tuesday (or Tuesday's Ruby or Ruby in the Sky instead of Diamonds...)...it'll be my first romance with BDSM elements...so I'm hoping for a catchy title to come to me before I have to submit (no pun intended there-- LOL)

So, no new word count thingy....yet...

Update: Got some comments from my CP and started incorporating, so I added a few words...

Done

So I got my Untitled story finished. It finished at 19,365.

I'm checking in.

My last check in was Wednesday, November 14th @ 12:24am, so I'm checking in a little less than 48 hours later.

I started with 13,389 and have 19,365 so that gives me a total of 5976 an average of 2988 per day. And a total of 13,181. WOOT! An average of 2197 per day.

Untitled - COMPLETE


Untitled - EDITS


And my SVEN up to date as of today


I'm thinking of today and tomorrow off and hoping back on the horse tomorrow. *shrugs* We'll see.

Productive, but not with NaNo

Well, I got stuck into the third round of edits for Valentine's Beast. I had to stop because the lappy almost died on me, but I did get halfway through. So that's cool.

Oh, and I finally got my November newsletter done and emailed last night!

Now, I hope you all...

Finished!

With the synopsis, anyway.



Since I cut a little here and there to get it down from 1750 to about 1550 before I reached the end, I reckon I wrote a little over 500 words. Considering everything else I had to do today, not bad!

All by myself today, so...

Here's where I'm at right now:

Not sure how many words I added today, but man... I'm totally into this tale.

And I really, really need to thank this wonderful, most awesome band.

You see, right now I'm in the thick of things. A sequence of bad things are going to get this novel to the end. And although I knew what had to happen, the order in which it should go was starting to feel a little murky. So, this morning after I dropped my daughter off at school, I stuck the headphones into my ears and played their album A Beautiful Lie.

During three of their songs -- From Yesterday, The Story and R-Evolve -- it all just came to me. Honestly, I kid you not.

Their music is my muse for today. And for that, I thank them.

xxx

Today, I...

...wrote a big chunk of the synopsis for Unbridled. And though I didn't quite finish, as I was putting the Cornish hens in the oven, I had a mini-breakthrough and realized how the ending should go now. Woot.

Here's the meter:

Unbridled Synopsis

Plodding along...

Well, the words just flew out of me a few days ago, then plodded out of me yesterday. I got some new words down but not as many as I would have liked. Perhaps today I'll make better progress. I'm still shooting to be done with this story so I can submit it by the end of the month --Here's hoping!

Update: After 1.5 hours of writing time today


So...I made some progress. This is all the "writing" time I have today. The rest of my free time today will be spent critiquing and proofreading. But, tomorrow is Library Day...I should be able to get in a good crunch of writing in the afternoon.

Checking in

Well, the hubby was sorta home today. But I did get some writing done. :)

Here's where I'm at now:



Going well, but I really have to get my notebook out now.

Bad Jackie. Bad!

I didn't work on Unbridled at all today. Instead, I wrote 1,200+ words of my contemporary project. And I'd write more if I didn't have to get dinner on the table and homework done. I'm so loving this story again.

Going Greek

Unstuck (Sort of)

So, QB chatted with me yesterday and helped me solve my plotting dilemma. Thanks, QB! Of course, having got out of that one, I immediately fell into another. Sigh...

Here's a screen shot of the spreadsheet I'm using to try to replot the book:

The color coding identifies the point of view for each scene: pink for the heroine, blue for the hero, yellow for the villain. There is a fourth POV in the book, but I haven't got to that point yet. When I do, her POV will be coded lavendar.

My goal for this week (what's left of it!) is to hammer out the scene goals, motivations, and conflicts, the plot elements handled in each scene, the location of each scene, and then identify the major turning points. I'm not normally a very structured plotter, but because large chunks of this book are written and some of them can probably stay with tweaking, I need to see the whole thing laid out before I can tackle the rewrite. Plus, I need to know how it all fits together to write the synopsis.

So, does this method work? I have no idea. But I guess I'll find out!

Quick Check In

I'm going to toot my own horn. I am proud of myself. I set a goal and I'm seeing it through. WOOT!

So I last checked in on the 12th at 2:32am. A little under 48 hours ago. When I check in last I was at 8365. I didnt set another goal but my ultimate goal was to have this story done by 11/14 and right now I'm at 13,389. 1611 words from finishing! WOOT! WOOT!

I started with 8365 so that gives me a total of 5024. WOOT WOOT! And average of 2512 per day!

And brings my handy dandy SVEN o METER to...




Untitled


I plan on getting this sucker done tomorrow and polish till it shines and sent off by the due date! WOOT! WOOT!

Checking in a little earlier today

Not sure what happened, but I've met my target by 11:30am. The words were just zooming out of me today.

So, here's what it looks like now:



Crossed the 40k mark. Yay.

Now I've got this afternoon to work on the second edits of Valentine's Beast.

Write on! :D

Moving Right Along...

I got NO writing done yesterday, but did get a new refrigerator instead. Our old one was rattling and moaning as if it was possessed. Luckily it held out just long enough...

Today, I threw myself right back into the story and it's moving right along -- lots of mystery -- I'm really enjoying this. And it's fun to do research as to what existed back in 1943 (not only objects but expressions). I have to be careful my "research" doesn't shadow my writing time...

Frustrated!

So, I wrote myself into a corner in Carnally Yours, which currently sits at 20,800 words. Knowing I must whip Unbridled into shape ASAP for the Golden Heart, I started working on reoutlining yesterday. And promptly worked myself into another corner.

The problem I'm having with Unbridled is balancing the competing needs of the story. On the one hand, there's the sub-plot, which is what brings the hero and heroine together in the first place. Without the sub-plot, there'd be no romance. On the other hand, I can't let the sub-plot overshadow the romance.

So, what I'm finding is that the sub-plot is keeping the hero and heroine apart in the partial, but I need them to be together because the romance is the main plot and should develop first. At the same time, I can't figure out how to make the story develop in a logical, step-by-step fashion without developing the sub-plot in the partial.

Argh! I may just give up and put the story in the Magical Mulch Pile under the bed. I'm out $50 for the GH entry, but maybe I'd rather be out $50 than nursing a massive headache.

Checking in for Tuesday:

Very happy.

Left it mid-chapter, in a fun spot. ;)

More tomorrow.

Exhausted but damn it feels good...

I'm checking in twice tonight. I set a goal of getting to 8 or 9k tonight and I made it to 8365. I started at 6184 so that gives me a total of 2181. WOOT WOOT!

And brings my handy dandy SVEN o METER to...




Untitled


I've hit the halfway mark! Woot! Woot! Go Emma! Go Emma! I'll be by in the morning to encourage all of yall in the morning after I get some sleep!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and SVEN check in. I HEART SVEN

Le sigh. Why am I stuck? Seriously. Okay so I'm going to watch The Simpsons and then turn the TV back off at 8:30pm and try it again.

Right now I'm at 6184 so since my last check in on Saturday at 3:49am and it's been less than 48 hours since my last check in.

Started off the Untitled project at 4012 and I'm now at 6184 for a total of 2172.
Untitled



I checked the numbers twice and hot damn came up with the same number both times.

Since the 4th of October until today I've written a total of 12,508. HOT m-f'ing DAMN! In a fricking week! A week! WOOT! WOOT! A total of 1787 per day. Damn Sven, do you know much I love you@

Into the (writing) Groove

Yep. It's the start of a new week. I've got 5 new and very shiny days ahead of me...

Of course, one of them is now gone, I've gotten some edits, I need to get my newsletter together, and there are a million other things to deal with. Still.

Here's my progress so far this week:

I've decided that it would be fantastic if I could get about 5k written each day this week.

Progress...not so much

It's been a slow weekend but I expected that with having kids home this weekend. I did get 20 pages of The Right Moves edited yesterday, and I got the third novella plotted, but the issue with Novella One is still plauging me. I'll figure it out AFTER I wrote novella three though and give the old subconscious time to work. Am I the only one who relies on that part of her brain?

SO now it's time to write and I'm going to try for five pages today on the third novella whose name I haven't decided on yet. LOL