So I just did a guest blog/author introduction on Joshua Palmatier’s blog, discussing the links between fantasy and horror. Click on over, and let me know what you think.
Many thanks to Joshua for the opportunity. 🙂
OLD News
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96960 / 95000 words. 102% done!
And that’s it, folks. Zero draft of the Work in Progress is complete. 😎 And despite all my worries, it’s a hair over target word count, while still well enough within the target range to allow for either additions or deletions in editing/rewrites.
Time for some serious celebration. By which I mean a little junk food and a nap. I’m a real wild child.
81845 / 95000 words. 86% done!
Chapter fourteen was a monster. Really, really tricky to write–in part because the entire chapter is more or less one long conversation with a lot of plot points revealed. (And no, it’s not a Scooby-Doo-esque "the villain taunts and reveals all" scene. The villain’s not even in it. 😛 ) But it was a raving pain the ass to write.
How, exactly, did I manage to screw up my ankle on a damn in-home pedal exerciser?! That’s like cutting yourself on a freaking pretzel!
Oh, wait. I’ve done that. 😕 (Drew blood and everything, and yes, I have witnesses.)
Still shouldn’t have happened, damn it. It’s not like 20 minutes on a pedal exerciser is precisely an intense, injury-prone workout. 😛
72339 / 95000 words. 76% done!
I’m pretty much precisely on course here. Twelve out of sixteen chapters is 75%, and I’ve got 76% by word count.
Which would be great, if I didn’t have a number of short chapters ahead of me. I was actually hoping to be ahead on word count by now. 😳
Well, we’ll see. Not like it’s a disaster if I don’t come in precisely where I wanted, long as it’s not too far off…
