New Year, New Novella

I spent yesterday plotting out my WICKED submission...

Then I opened a new word document and started writing and what came out is nothing like what I'd started with...I love it when that happens!

So, I'm going to type like mad for an hour and I'll be back to post my word count.



Bleh....not as many words as I would have liked. Maybe later today...

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.

It's Progress Anyway....

Sometimes I wonder why I outline.

I've been working on the "snowflake" (see Randy Ingermanson if you want to know how to use his method to outline a book) for a time travel. It's set locally, although I've changed all the places and names to protect the guilty (and keep from getting sued).

So, after 6 days of tinkering with the outline and working out plot points in my head, I picked a title. Mojave Moon.

Then, I put my fingers on the keyboard and started to write. At the end of the heroine's first scene, I have a huge sonic boom and "flash" my heroine shoots 65 years into the past. Oh! Wait...the hero was supposed to come forward in time. So...I rewrote the scene...sonic boom, heroine shoots 65 years into the past. Shit.... Oh, well, wait...

Immediately the entire story line jumped into my head ~ there's still a few little gaps, minor details, and the clincher -- it's bloody backwards and now I have to do lots more research.

Le sigh.

So, word count is at 797 -- doesn't seem like much for all that work~

Thank GOD it's done...

At 25,115 words ROP is DONE! Sweet Jebus typing the end was better than an O. Okay, so it wasn't better than an O but it was a pretty close four hundredth.

This story pushed every boundary I had and features my very first semi what what scene.

So let's do a count, from the last time I checked in on the Tuesday the 6th at 2:49 am I have done a total of 2921 words. *faints*

So from October 31st, I've written a total of 10,336 an average of 1477 per day.

Whew. Go me! So I get 24 hours from the time this is posted to rest and recuperate before I hit the next story! Hope everyone else is out there rocking!

So very, very, very close!

I have 2806 words left. So close and yet so far. I should be done by tomorrow if I get up early enough and then it's edit time.

This story has pushed me in every way imaginable but I'd like to think I'm a better writer for it. :-)

Last time I checked in on Sunday, November 4th I was at 18753 so I've written a total of 3441 so that 2 almost 3k should be snap! Go Emma! It's your birthday! Go Emma

Here we go...

This is my post from October 31st and for some reason I forgot to publish it. Le sigh. Okay so today is November 3rd @ 12:16am and I am at 17155. My original word count was 17k but I've gone past that and this book is only about 2/4ths done. Le sigh. Le sigh. Super, super le sigh.

So since the 27th I've written a total of 4515, an average of 645 a day. 5 workd under my goal.

Today: I wrote 2350.

I'll check in tomorrow.

So I'm thinking the projected word count may be 25k. We'll see.

It's 11:02pm on October 31st. A day after I was supposed to check in.

My word count right now is 14,779. I started at 12,641. So it's a total of 2138 an average of 534 words per day. Le sigh. Come on Emma. Get it together. Tomorow I'm logging off of the internet. If I was brave enough (which I'm totally not) I would uninstall Yahoo i.m.

Instead I'm going to follow my own damn advice and get some discipline. If I can do it with one of my great loves (food) I have do it with the love of my life, writing.

Wish me luck. Call me names. Harrass me. Any little thing helps.

Inching Along

The past couple of days haven't even been "typically" productive. And the next two don't promise to be either since, as usual, my husband and I waited to the last minute to plan tomorrow night's Cub Scout Pack Meeting (he's the Cubmaster) and of course, it can't be anything simple, but something that requires us (which realistically means me) to run around picking up this thing and that thing and then a ton of assembly/preparation.

And then yesterday was Halloween, which took a chunk out of my writing time as well. Oh, and I also have to help my husband and son get ready to leave at the buttcrack of dawn on Saturday morning for Rocket Camp in the desert, which means making sure they have food, camping gear, etc.

Le sigh!

So, here's the wordmeter for Carnally Yours as of last night:



Given what's on my plate today (errands, office for meetings, more errands, picking up kids from school, getting my son to build his rocket, cook dinner, help husband assemble stuff for the Pack Meeting, cry, etc.), I am not going to give myself a goal of more than I usually accomplish in an average day. So, that's 500 words.

Wish me luck. I'm pretty sure I'll need it!

Le sigh...

So I'm at 10464, a big whopping 154 words since I checked in last. Le sigh. That's all I can say. I need a change of scenery but since California is burning to the ground and I'm asthmatic going outside is not the best of ideas. I'll check in either tonight or tomrrow morning and hopefully my news will be better. :( Yes. I know I suck and not in that magically delicious way.

Em