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Wednesday WiPs…
Second, I’m starting to work on edits of Out of Bounds, a contemporary that will be coming out in April next year at Samhain. I’ll give you a quick sneak peek at it on Friday. Woo-hoo!
So on to the WiPs I have going (or at least the four main ones…lol):
Home of his Own: 38,753/50,000 (232 words)
Dreaming of Dragons: 652/50,000 (0 words)
Devil’s Addiction: 30,436/50,000 (263 words)
Where the Devil Dances: 9,079/50,000 (1,921 words)
That gives me 2,416 words for the week. Bit slow, but I did do edits on Understanding Forgiveness as well. (which can be found at Aspen Mountain Press..release date Oct. 19th)
I wrote 33, 804 words during the month of September and added to my running total gives me 281, 613 words for the year so far. I slowed down a little as the end of the month got closer.
Well, I hope you all have a great Wednesday.
Wednesday’s WiPs
Well another week almost over with. And another month close to being done. Yikes! Why is it flying so fast? I don’t think I’m having that much fun. 🙂
I thought I’d give you an idea of how many stories I actually have going at one time. There are four that I’ll be working on more than the others. Those four will be in dark red. The other four are ones I work on when I hit a wall or snag in the other four. Those will be in blue. 😉
Here you go:
Home of his Own: 38,521/50,000 (2 words)
Devil’s Addiction: 30,173/50,000 (332 words)
Where the Devil Dances: 7,158/50,000 (1,302 words)
Dreaming of Dragons: 652/50,000 (652 words)
Which gives me a total of 2,288 words for the week. Not bad. Have to do more work on Tony’s story and DA, but all in all, pretty decent total for me.
Here are the other four:
The Scarab Beetle: 8,358/50,000
Kouchou: 2,710/35,000
To Hell with the Devil: 5,304/45,000
High Line: 8,471/50,000
Like I said, the last four are ones I work on when I hit a snag on the first four or when I’m somewhere without computer access, so I write in my journal. But they also are ones I’ve just started which is why the word counts on rather low on them. 🙂
Hope you have a great day.
Wednesday WiPs
Wow…September is half over. Where did it go? Ugh! Haven’t accomplished nearly everything I wanted to get done. Too many irons in the fire, I guess. Might need to scale some things down, so I can get at least one story done this month…lol
Here’s the word count:
Home of His Own: 38,519/50,000 (2,289 words)
Devil’s Addiction: 29,841/50,000 (0 words)
Where the Devil Dances: 5,856/ 50,000 (2,451 words)
Giving me a total of 4,704 for the week. Though I did type in what I’d written out of The Scarab Beetle (paranormal story about step-brothers) and that netted me 8k or so of words, but it doesn’t get included with the three main stories. I do keep a total of all the words I write during a week (Mon-Sun) and then add them all up for a monthly total. Yeah, I’m weird that way. I guess I like to see that I’m actually doing something and getting stories written. 🙂
We’ll see what I’ll be working on in the next day or so…lol Have a great day.
Wednesday WiPs…
I did accomplish some other writing tasks though. Wrote up and sent out proposals for three books. As soon as I hear anything about them, I’ll let you all know. You will all be happy to know one of the proposals was for Dreaming of Dragons, the second book in my Dragon series and yes, a majority of the story will be about Mordred and George. Though Kael and Hugh will play roles in the story as well. 🙂 The other two proposals are for paranormals. I’ll tell you about them later…lol. Depending on what I hear back.
So for this week’s update:
Home of his Own: 36,230/50,000 (1,960 words)
Devil’s Addiction: 29,841/50,000 (126 words)
Where the Devil Dances: 3,441/50,000 (1,987 words)
That gives me 4,033 words written over the week, but I have to admit I’ve been doing a lot of writing on several other stories that I don’t list here. If I listed every story I work on over the course of a week, there would be about ten or twelve up there. At times, I have a serious case of Attention-Defecit Disorder when it comes to my stories. So, when I say I’ve only gotten 4000 words written, add another 4k or 5k to that spread out over all the stories. 🙂 It’s just these are the three that I’m really focusing in and trying to finish sooner rather than later.
I hope everyone has a great Wednesday.
Wednesday WiPs….
Wentworth Miller is so very yummy. Though I’ve never watched his show…lol.
On to the writing updates. It’s been an all right week for me. Didn’t get a ton done like I had wanted to, but still progress was made. I heard back from one of my cps and worked on The Vanguard to polish it up, incorporating her suggestions and comments. Hoping to hear back from the other two by the end of the week, so I can get it done and submitted by next week. 🙂
Home of His Own: 34,270/50,000 (1,171 words)
Devil’s Addiction (formerly The Gypsy Devil): 29,715/50,000 (2,175 words)
Where the Devil Dances: 1,454/50,000 (1,379 words)
This gives me 4,725 words for the week, but that doesn’t include the nightingale story I started on Sunday or the brother’s story from Out of Bounds (which I’m hoping to have news on soon.)
Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday. 🙂
Wednesday WiPs…
Wednesday already? Wow. I have to admit this week is flying by. I’ve accomplished one thing so far and that’s to finish Vanguard. 🙂
So I managed to write a little on Tony’s story, but ended up just watching tv last night. Gave myself a little break. Don’t worry. I planning to dive head first into that story and get it done as soon as possible. I really want to get it out for everyone.
Here are my word counts for the past week:
The Vanguard: 70,830/55,000 (5,566 words in the week)
Home of his Own: 33,099/50,000 (591 words in the week)
The Gypsy Devil: 27,540/50,000 (0 words in the week)
Where the Devil Dances: 166/50,000 (166 words in the week)
So that gives me a total of 6,323 words since last Wednesday. Not a great number, but it works. 🙂 Tony’s story moves to the top of the list and gets most of my attention. WtDD’s count will go up as I get deeper in the story. TGD will end up being something I work on when I’m just not in the mood for either of the other two. I haven’t given myself a deadline for that one yet.
I hope everyone has a great Wednesday.
Wednesday WiPs
The winner of Steph’s contest yesterday was Cathy. If you stop by here, can you email me at chase.ta at gmail dot com. Thanks. Oh and let me know what format you’d like it in, so I can have Steph send it to you. Thanks for posting yesterday.
Now for the word count report. No work done on Tony’s story, I’m afraid. Just didn’t click right for me this past week, but I promise I’m going to knuckle down and work on it, starting today. 🙂
The Vanguard: 65,264/55,000 (5,060 words for this one)
The Gypsy Devil: 27,540/50,000 (4,448 words)
Home of his Own: 32,508/50,000 (0 words)
Which gives me 9,508 words for the week. I’m only around 18k from finishing Tony’s story, so it won’t take me that long to do it. 🙂 Plus I’m probably 5k away from finishing Vanguard. Hopefully both can get finished by next week. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Hope everyone has a great Thursday.
Wednesday WiPs
First off, Understanding Forgiveness has been contracted. Aspen Mountain Press accepted my short story to be included in an anthology with a few other m/m authors. (Who at the moment I can’t think of…lol) It’s scheduled for an October release. 🙂 So as soon as I get a title for the anthology, I’ll let you all know.
And Liquid Silver Books is planning on releasing No Going Home in print. I don’t have any other information for everyone at the time, but as soon as I know more about this event, I’ll be sure to post it…lol. Trust me, I’ll let everyone know.
My word counts for this week are pretty good, except for Gypsy Devil. Didn’t work on that one at all this week.
The Vanguard: 60,204/55,000 (11,052 words for the week)
Home of his Own: 32,508/50,000 (1,595 words for the week)
The Gypsy Devil: 23,092/50,000 (0 words for the week)
So that gives me 12,647 words written for the week. 🙂 That’s always a good thing. The word count for the week is actually a little higher because of some other things I wrote, but since they are on stories that I’m not focused on at the moment, I don’t count them.
I hope everyone has a great Wednesday.
Wednesday WiPs
Happy Wednesday, everyone. The week’s speeding by. Been busy with a ton of stuff, but I have managed to write. 🙂
The Vanguard: 49,152/55,000 (3,536 for the week)
Home of his Own: 30,913/50,000 (3,482 for the week)
The Gypsy Devil: 23,092/50,000 (2,399 for the week)
So that gives me a total of 9,417 words for the week. Which is really good since it was spread out between all three stories. 🙂 Plus I did a little work on the Flash Fiction stories I did for the last two sundays at SEx. Those should be interesting stories once I focus on them. But I’m only roughly 6000 away from my goal for The Vanguard and actually I’ll probably end up going over that word count. Not a bad thing.
Hope everyone has a great Wednesday.
Wednesday WiPs
So how has everyone’s summer gone so far? Mine’s been good. I’ve enjoyed it, though I’m not enjoying this heat at all. Ugh! Definitely makes me long for that Ice Palace Lisa had on her blog yesterday. (She also has the next excerpt to her free blog story up today. Check it out.)
Now for my WiPs. I have to say I did pretty good on The Gypsy Devil. All right on The Vanguard and not so good on Home of his Own. But that’ll change. 😉
Home of his Own: 27,431/50,000 (so no progress on this story)
The Vanguard: 45,616/55,000 (2,287 words written)
The Gypsy Devil: 20,693/50,000 (7,216 words written)
That gives me 9,503 words in a week. And again, I’ve written some other stuff like the Flash Fiction and the little scene for Monday’s Poetry train. Since I keep track of how many words I write, I also have a count of how much I’ve written in July. 39,694 words which is the biggest count this year.
But the good news is I’m only 10k away from my goal for Vanguard. Hopefully that won’t take too long to finish up. As soon as I finish one of the main three I’m working on, I’ll be starting Dreaming of Dragons, the second of my Dragon books. This one will feature Mordred and St. George. 🙂
Have a great Wednesday everyone.
