One of my fellow Drollerie authors, Meredith Holmes, unfortunately was in the hospital this week with a pulmonary embolism. So she was unable to participate in the Blog Tour this time around, and since she was scheduled to host Elisa Diehl, I’m going to take care of hosting Elisa’s post instead. Check it out, folks!
And also, stop by Meredith’s place and wish her well. ‘Cause hospitals are never fun, especially this close to Christmas.
Take it away, Elisa!
Those of you who know about my completed but unpublished novels will know I’ve got Queen of Souls, a Persephone and Hades story on the queue to be edited into queryable shape. So it should surprise none of you that I’m quite interested in checking out Frayed Tapestry, by my fellow Drollerie author Imogen Howson. In fact, as the cool kids like to say, her post for this month’s Drollerie Blog Tour, on the topic of dangerous writing, is Relevant to My Interests indeed.
Check it out, folks! Here’s what Imogen’s got to say.
In a bigger than normal burst of words tonight, I’ve actually finished up Chapter 6 of Bone Walker. Mostly, this features Kendis having a quiet but significant realization about the state of things between her and Christopher, one that has hit her at a less than opportune time–like these things tend to do. Which is about all I’ll say about that, because hey, spoilers!
I did actually have to do a bit of followup Googling on the whole cell phone issue, though. Wound up needing to toss off a throwaway line about Kendis taking a picture of something with her phone, and caught myself thinking ‘guh okay, can she do that with a phone in 2003?’ Survey (and consulting of ) says yes. This is what I get for the book being time-shifted back six years, and also for me never getting a phone of my own until 2006!
Anyway, chapter’s done. We’ll see if I can start Chapter 7 some time tomorrow! And since tomorrow’s also Longest Night, this should mean amusing things for my potential word count. But I also have to write a post for the Drollerie Blog Tour this month, so we’ll see!
Written last night: 238
Written tonight: 695
Chapter 6 total: 2,774
Bone Walker total (first draft): 16,734
Because I was totally distracted by Fictionwise’s shiny on-sale ebook goodness and then by Twitter asploding, I got started later on tonight’s words than I wanted, and now I really need to go to bed!
Written tonight: 216
Chapter 6 total: 1,841
Bone Walker total (first draft): 15,801
Fictionwise, as I’ve posted before, has pretty much got me right where they want me. Especially right now with their mighty end of year sale, wherein everything is pretty much 40-60 percent off. Plus, since I’m a member of the Buywise club, they have a thing going where I can get an extra 10 percent rebate for orders between $50 and $100. So I just dropped fifty bucks on the credit card tonight to stack up on the rebate goodness.
And here’s the thing: Fictionwise books you spend rebate dollars on themselves generate more rebate dollars. So I just went through five, count ’em, five rounds of book buying before I finally exhausted my rebate amount. The list of books that resulted is mighty indeed. Here they all are in their glory!
A few more words tonight than last night, which pleases me; also, there are smoochies in these words! And the amusement of trying to figure out how to describe that why yes, Kendis and Christopher are healthy young people with healthy young hormones, but in a laid-back, retro kind of way rather than a “these two are about to rip each other’s shirts off” kind of way. ‘Cause, y’know, I’m old school like that.
Also of amusement: trying to remember that since Faerie Blood was written in 2003 and early 2004 and therefore is really technically set in 2003, this means Bone Walker is late 2003 too. Which means that I need to resist the temptation to think of Kendis’ cell phone as a shiny 2009-style cell phone, because it ain’t. I could handwave it and just skip ahead to 2009, except that I do actually have a throwaway line in Faerie Blood about Kendis being five years old when Mt. St. Helens blows, and she’s 28 in that book. And I’m too much of a stickler for continuity to dismiss that. So!
Now, since an unfortunately timed text message has interrupted the aforementioned smoochies, to figure out how to get our heroine and hero off to the next scene, and finding the nogitsune. By now, I mean, ‘tomorrow’.
Written tonight: 320
Chapter 6 total: 1,625
Bone Walker total (first draft): 15,585
Only a couple hundred words again tonight, but given how erratic my pace has been all year, hey, a couple hundred words is a good thing! Chapter 6 inches along, and in tonight’s brief fragment, I do believe I’m getting an opportunity to showcase how Christopher and Kendis’ relationship will have progressed a bit since Book 1. I also just had a bit of a thought as to what’ll need to happen next as they try (and fail) to followup on what just happened to Jude… and there will be segueing into some Warder business as I bring the nogitsune on camera. Which is a bit to work into a single chapter; this may spill over into Chapter 7! We’ll see.
Written tonight: 201
Chapter 6 total: 1,305
Bone Walker total (first draft): 15,265