Saturday 12/31/16

Exactly 1,050 words today.  Seeing as I slept much of the day (getting over this cold), I think that was pretty good.

Second story of my Horror WIP is finished, coming in about half the length of the first. 

Had a brain flash for a cool story, so I'm changing the outline to include it!  This one will be a good diversion from the more action stories; a cerebral horror tale - if I can make it work right!  Can't wait to get started on it, but I think I need a bit more rest.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Friday, 12/30/16

300 words yesterday, 600 words today. 

Been fighting a very nasty cold, so I think those numbers are good enough.  I'm starting to feel better, so hopefully I'll get my numbers up.

Anyway, my book, Darganau:  Autobiography of a Dragon, sold well over the holidays.  Things are looking up!

So time for more meds.  Keep well, all.

Wednesday, 12/28/16

Horror WIP:  1100 more words today, and lucky to get that!  My computer crashed.  Blue screen and all!  It told me something went wrong and it was restarting.  Two more restarts also failed, but there was also a msg of what went bad, and I thought it might be the video card.  After the second reboot failure, I closed it and just sat back - ended up taking an unplanned nap.  :)

When I woke up, I reopened the laptop and tried to restart.  SUCCESS! 

~blows a sigh of relief~

Several other things I needed to do, so I didn't get to work on the omnibus (though I yet might).  That work is tedious, but goes quickly, so I'm not stressing about it.

So, a semi-productive day, and I'm satisfied with it - especially after the scare!

December 27, 2016

Yeah, it's actually 1:36 a.m. on the 28th.  But I figured I'd report yesterday's activity.  :)

My main WIP right now is a collection of short stories, in the horror genre.  This project was lost, due to a housemate fudging with my computer several months ago, and it took me a bit to get up the desire to start again. 

But an idea of how to bring all the stories together (sort'a) sprung into my head, and I knew it was time to start anew!  (taking better precautions, this time).

The first story in this collection, Between, seemed to take forever to write!  I mean literally, some days I might've written less than a hundred words!  But I was hooked on the concept, and I can't say it was writer's block!  Whatever the reason, it topped off a just over 7,000 words.  When I read through it, I understood why it took me so long - it was exactly as I'd wanted it!

I didn't start the second story until yesterday, currently called Lurker in the Shadows, though that might change.  It's obviously going to go quicker, as I finished 1,000 words yesterday, and had to tear myself away from it to work on another project I've promised.

That other project is The Mountain Elves of Kali Omnibus, a collection of my published works on these elves.  It will include one novel (Flight of the Elves), two books of short stories (Stories of the Mountain Elves, Volumes I and II), and The Shen (Elven) Language Guide.

This is my first omnibus, so I thought it would be rather easy.  NOT!  After connecting all four pdfs into one file and converting them to Word for editing, there proved to be a LOT of editing to do!  Well, I finished editing the novel, all in one day!  So maybe the project won't take too much more time.  I'm planning to release it after the New Year, as soon as I can.

Well, if you took the time to read this, I thank you.  Please... all comments and suggestions are welcome!

Welcome

Starting this blog, in hopes it will spur me to more dedication to the Craft.

I'll be posting my daily activity on here, word count on my WIPs, projects I'm planning, etc. 

Please feel free to comment as you will!  :)