Today’s stats: titles: 1 (The Priestess Murders — a Light-Walkers murder mystery) today’s wordcount: 4,435 total wordcount: 12,015 chapters: 2 cups of coffee consumed: 11 beers consumed: 1 sleuths: 2 murder scenes: 1 corpses: 1 mostly intact, 1 dismembered dismembered body parts: 4 sets of exposed entrails: 1 suspects-to-be: 4 deceptions: 8 red herrings: 2 …
Today’s stats: titles: 1 (The Priestess Murders — a Light-Walkers murder mystery) today’s wordcount: 1,774 total wordcount: 7,580 chapters: 1 cups of coffee consumed: 9 beers consumed: 1 sleuths: 2 assistants/servants: 2 onscreen, 2 offscreen murder scenes: 1 corpses: 1 offscreen, 1 onscreen dismembered body parts: 3 suspects-to-be: 4 deceptions: 6 I’m enjoying this story, …
Today’s stats: titles: 1 (The Priestess Murders — a Light-Walkers murder mystery) total wordcount: 5,839 cups of coffee consumed: 7 beers consumed: 1 sleuths: 2 assistants/servants: 2 onscreen, 2 offscreen murder scenes: 1 corpses: 1 offscreen, 1 onscreen dismembered body parts: 2 suspects-to-be: 2 deceptions: 5 The plot, like the blood of the murder victims, …
I tried to post this last night but fell asleep at the keyboard. So. Without further ado or adon’t, yesterday’s stats for my first NaNo Day One in seven years and my first ever JuNo Day One, period: titles: 1 (The Priestess Murders — a Light-Walkers murder mystery) wordcount on story: 2,427 wordcount on notes:879 …
Dear Two Remaining Faithful Readers, I’m back. Sort of. Maybe. Long story short (too late), I have made the probably unwise choice of signing up for JuNoWriMo. It’s 99% like NaNoWriMo, except that it’s in June instead of November and it’s not affiliated with NaNoWriMo except for having gained permission to use the concept Mad …
Last night, I wrote about my hope, my not-hope, and my forever-hope, all threaded through with the discouraging guanoshow that was 2016 A.D. Today, I turn my mind and heart to lovelier things. When it came to reading and writing, 2016 was one of my best years ever. 🙂 On Reading in 2016 In 2016, …
The second half of this entry’s title was a note I emailed to myself more than 3 years ago under subject “blog not tweet.” Actually, the email’s subject line reads, “blog not twwet,” but Ima chalk that up to typo-ing. As it turns out, there are twelve emails nested under that subject, so I’m sharing …
Since my social media vacay apparently has catapulted me into random-abundant-blogging mode, and since I have books on the brain (HA HA BUSINESS AS USUAL AMIRITE), here are the titles and statuses? stati? of my finished…um…”finished” novels. Egad, I bet ya’ll thought that sentence would never end. (BUT I HAVE A MILLION OF THEM OH …
Once upon a time, there was a writer who bleached the face-framing portion of her hair and then dyed that portion pastel blue. It lasted a couple of weeks, then faded. And it continued fading from bluish into the bleached blonde until the blue and yellow combo looked decidedly greenish. But it looked kind of …
PEOPLE! IT’S ALLLLLLIIIIIIIIIVVVVVE! And that’s no accidental Frankenstein reference, either. The Dying of the Light (Legends of the Light-Walkers, #3) is a monster of a book in more ways than one. It clocks in at 156k words of story and about 550 pages, give or take a “loc” on Kindle. The book has been in …