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Wednesday WiPs
Isn’t that such a beautiful sunset? 😉
Hmm…first Wednesday WiPs update of the year. Yet another holiday managed to curtail the writing, but that’s okay. It’s a new year and another new beginning (or blank page).
Here’s the word counts:
Dreaming of Dragons: 2,106/50,000 (0 words-but it does seem that I’ve found where I should start the story. Hopefully it’ll start rolling for me now.)
His Heart’s Home: 5,975/50,000 (again 0 words. That’s okay. I’m taking a little break from the third Home book. I’ll start up again when Derek starts singing to me.)
To Hell with the Devil: 11,365/30,000 (526 words. Arch-the hero-has really been pushing at me to finish his story. He seems to think it’s by far the most important one I have going.)
Where the Devil Dances: 27,142-finished (1,911 words and our adventures with Eric and David are finished for now. I have a plan for them though and as soon as I work it out, I’ll let you all know.
That gives me 2,437 words for the week. I’d give you the totals from December and the entire year of 2007, but that file happens to be at home. 🙂 So next Wednesday, I’ll give you those stimulating numbers.
Hope you all are having a great day.
Wednesday WiPs
Wow…it’s been a while since I’ve posted my updates. lol. Of course, the last couple of weeks have been screwed up anyway. 🙂
Where the Devil Dances: 25,231/30,000 (2,504 words)
Dreaming of Dragons: 2,106/50,000 (413 words)
His Heart’s Home: 5,975/50,000 (0 words)
To Hell with the Devil: 10,839/30,000 (2,377 words)
That gives me a total of 5,294 words written on these four stories. Being sick really kicked my butt last week, so I didn’t lift a pen or did anything remotely like writing. 🙁 But that’s okay. I’m feeling a lot better and getting back into the swing of things. The next week will be busy, but I’ll squeeze in as much writing time as I can.
Hope you all have a great day.
Wednesday WiPs
Another Wednesday. This week is moving faster than I thought it would.
I submitted Home of His Own to LSB. Just waiting to hear back from them on it. So as soon as I get the news, I’ll let you all know.
Went through my first set of edits for Out of Bounds, my April release from Samhain. Not bad. Didn’t leave me shaking my head wondering why my editor ever agreed to publish the thing…lol.
On to the word counts:
Dreaming of Dragons: 1,693/50,000 (31 words) –I do have more written out, just haven’t gotten to type it in yet.
Where the Devil Dances: 22,727/35,000 (1,477 words)- I’ve dropped the word count down because I believe we’re getting close to the end and I know it’s not going to hit 50k.
His Heart’s Home: 5,975/50,000 (2,547 words) Have lots more written out along with poems/songs for each chapter…or I hope that’s how it’s going to work out.
That gives me 4,055 words for the week. I wrote 22,364 words in November which added to my previous total gives me 348,577 words written from Jan.-Nov. I don’t remember how much I wrote last year. I might have to go back and see if I can figure it out.
Hope everyone has a great day.
Wednesday WiPs
I got Home of his Own back from one of my cps. Good suggestions. I ended up adding about 1k to the story to fix a problem. Sent it back and we’ll see if I get any more strong suggestions to fix. 😉 Actually I don’t mind the suggestions for the most part. If they make the story better, I’m more than willing to listen to them.
On to the WiPs:
Where the Devil Dances: 21,520/50,000 ( 3,850 words)
Dreaming of Dragons: 1,662/50,000 (404 words)
His Heart’s Home: 3,428/50,000 (0 words)
To Hell with the Devil: 8,462/45,000 ( 1,534 words)
Giving me a total of 5,788 words. I think I’ve figured out what my problem with DoD is. I think I might have started the story in the middle. I’m going to keep what I’ve written so far, but go back to before the scene I’ve written. There are undertones in that scene that I’m not understanding between Mordred and George. They are having some issues and I need to know what started those issues. We’ll see if I can straighten it out. 🙂
Hope everyone has a wonderful day.
Wednesday WiPs…a day early
I know that I’m a day early on my WiPs update. I wasn’t able to get the next installment of Where the Devil Dances done for today, so I thought I’d switch the days around. Tomorrow will be the story. All of you who come for the story, please stop back by tomorrow. I promise it’ll be up. 🙂
So this past week was good. I finished Home of his Own. It’s with my critque partners and hopefully I’ll be able to sub it soon. I’m now working mostly on Dreaming of Dragons..though it doesn’t look like it from the word count…lol. I’ve gotten more hand written. Just haven’t had the time to type it in. Also, I’ve started working on the next Home story, His Heart’s Home.
Home of his Own: 61,261/50,000 (4,762 words-finished)
Where the Devil Dances: 17,670/50,000 (1,231 w0rds)
Dreaming of Dragons: 1,258/50,000 (69 words)
His Heart’s Home: 3,428/50,000 (3,428 words)
That gives me a total of 9,490 words for the week. I also did a little work on a sequel to Understanding Forgiveness and the second in my sports series from Samhain. But mostly it was just finishing Tony’s story.
Hope everyone has a great day and I promise the next installment will be up tomorrow. 🙂
Wednesday WiPs
The Vanguard is listed as coming soon at SiN (Liquid Silver’s forum). Just the blurb has been posted at the moment, but I’m planning on getting an excerpt up soon. 🙂 I’ve added lots more to it, so I hope you all enjoy the new version of it. I think I might have told you before that Anne Cain is doing the cover for it. I can’t wait.
I have a different plan for Where the Devil Dances when I get done with it. We’ll see how it works out. And I’ll tell you more about that the closer I get to finishing that story.
Now for the word counts:
Home of his Own: 56,499/50,000 (1,094 words)
Where the Devil Dances: 16,439/50,000 (1,657 words)
Dreaming of Dragons: 1,189/50,000 (537 words)
Devil’s Addiction: 30,582/50,000 (0 words)
That gives me a total of 3,288 for the week. I hit my word count goal for HohO as you can see. I tend to think anything over that mark is a bonus for me. I’ve stalled a little on DA, but that’s okay in a way since I left the guys in the middle of having sex, so I’m sure they’re happy…lol.
With DoD, I haven’t decided if what I’ve written so far is going to be the beginning or if it’d fit better in the middle of the story. Guess the further into it I get, the more likely I am to figure that out. I went back and re-read HBD to get the feel of the characters again. I don’t usually read my stuff after I finish writing/editing it. Mostly because I’ll go through and see all the things I could change to make the story better or different.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday.
Wednesday WiPs
Happy Halloween, everyone. Hope you enjoy the night. 🙂 Whatever you do…whether it’s partying and dressing up. Taking the kids out or just staying home and watching scary movies.
I’m usually the one handing out candy. C runs to his office after buying the candy and has me hand it out. But I’m making him do it tonight for a while since I’m meeting a friend for dinner after work. 😉 We’ll see if he remembers today is Halloween…lol.
Well, as for writing, I pretty much only focused on two stories and I’ll be honest, if I didn’t have to write installments for you every Tuesday and Thursday, I’d probably only have worked on one.
Home of his Own: 55,405/50,000 (12,669 words)
Where the Devil Dances: 14,782/50,000 (1,432 words)
Dreaming of Dragons: 652/50,000 (0 words)
Devil’s Addiction: 30,582/50,000 (0 words)
For Tony’s story, I followed him and Brody from Wyoming to Los Angeles. Then we headed to St. Louis and back to Wyoming. Now they’re in Tacoma, Washington. Oh, the joys of a bull rider.
Not sure how much I have left, though I’m happy I went over my word count. There was a time there when I wasn’t sure I would. 🙂
Wednesday WiPs
I thought I’d tell you where I went this past week (Wednesday from Wednesday) That’s the wonderful thing about writing is I can go visit places without having to worry about traveling. Or I can do things without worrying about getting injured…lol.
I spent quite a bit of time in Wyoming. Tony and Brody finally decided they wanted me to visit them. I re-read what I had written and found where I went wrong. (At least I hope so.) I ended up deleting about 1k of what I’d written and started fixing it. We’ll see if that does it.
I went to Morley (haven’t decided what state that’s in…lol) to help Eric and David with a stalker. Of course, I think I’m making things worse before it gets better. 😉
I headed down to Memphis to see if a NASCAR driver and his movie star lover can make a relationship work. This story is one I work on while I’m in line at stores or the bank. It’s the easiest to pick up and set down at the moment. (It’s the second book in my sports series. The first book will be out in April from Samhain.)
So here are the word counts:
Home of his Own: 42,736/50,000 (3,333 words)
Where the Devil Dances: 13,350/50,000 (1,235 words)
Dreaming of Dragons: 652/50,000 (0 words)–though I’ve been hearing whispers in the back of my mind from Mordred and George, so I can see the word count starting to move soon on this one.
Devil’s Addiction: 30,582/50,000 (0 words)–I sort of left Beng in the middle of having sex with Daniel. Poor Daniel isn’t sure who he is. I’ve changed his name three times. Hopefully, this is the last name for him. 🙂
High Line: 23,968/50,000 (1,565 words)—just so you know what I have done on this story. ‘High Line’ is a racing term for when a driver takes the higher part of the track in a turn or when he’s passing someone.
So this week I’ve done 6,133 words. The thing is I’ve always set myself a goal of 2,000 words a day and lately I have been falling woefully short of that. Though I do get days where I’m inspired to write and get a ton done. Or I’ll write a little bit on two different stories to make up the total I want to reach.
In another news, Liquid Silver has contracted The Vanguard (expanded version) and Anne Cain will be doing the cover for that one. 🙂 I can’t wait to see what she comes up with.
Have a great Wednesday. 🙂
Wednesday WiPs
I thought I was on the road to recovery, but it seems today is worse than yesterday. Ugh! I really just want to go back home, curl up under my blankets and totally forget about the outside world for a while.
Didn’t do much last night except watch Transformers again. Still a fun movie. 🙂
So on to the WiPs. Didn’t get a ton more added to any of them since I was sick over the weekend.
Home of his Own: 39, 403/50,000 (260 words)
Where the Devil Dances: 12,115/50,000 (1,486 words)
Dreaming of Dragons: 652/50,000 (0 words)
Devil’s Addiction: 30,582/50,000 (146 words)
That gives me 1,892 words for the week. Not bad. 🙂
I hope you all have a great Wednesday.
Wednesday WiPs
You’ve probably noticed the newest covers on my books section in the side bar here at my blog. 🙂 And it might be all screwed up like it is on my computer screen here at work, but I promise when I was doing it at home, they all lined up perfectly…lol.
So yes, I do have a book coming out from Samhain in April of 2008. It’s called Out of Bounds and is the first in my Love of Sports series. I figured since I haven’t talked much about it, I would post the blurb for you all to read. This one is about a professional basketball player who falls in love and has to make the decision on whether to come out or lie.
Professional basketball player, Kasey Johnson, likes guys, but he keeps those longings out of the public eye. Kasey’s secret is safe until he meets a nightclub owner who ignites a passionate inferno in his body.
Ingram Fletcher owns Liverpool, the most popular gay club in Phoenix. He’s lusted after Kasey since they first met a year ago. Unsure of Kasey’s preferences, Gram has never made a move, but a kiss in a crowded club starts Gram wondering if a relationship would be possible.
After a romantic weekend together, Kasey and Gram realize that what starts as simple lust can blossom into love.
This blurb might change over the course of edits, but at the moment, it’s what I’ve got. Kasey happens to have a twin brother, Garrett, who is an openly gay movie star. I’m working on his story next. He falls for a recently ‘outed’ NASCAR driver. It hasn’t been contracted yet though. So I’ll keep you posted on that one.
On to the word count updates:
Home of his Own: 39,142/50,000 (390 words)
Dreaming of Dragons: 652/50,000 (0 words)
Devil’s Addiction: 30,436/50,000 (0 words)
Where the Devil Dances: 10,629/50,000 (1550 words)
That gives me a total of 1,940 words for the week. Hmm….not great, but I have been working on other stories that I haven’t listed here. Like Garrett’s story, High Line. And a few others. I do have probably about another 1k written in long hand for DoD, just haven’t gotten around to typing it in.
Hope you have a great Wednesday. 🙂 Happy Hump Day.
