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It's almost time for NaNoWriMo and this year, I'm not participating.
Thank goodness for that.
Last year's NaNoWriMo book (Museum of Impossible Artefacts or Ghosts of Folding Time or whatever title I left it at) is still an unholy mess of time travel, ghosts, giant robots, abandoned streets, sinister future people, the grim reaper who isn't the grim reaper but does a really good job at being the grim reaper, ghost ships, zeppelins, kidnapping and disappearing houses. I should pick two of the above and start again with the thing and maybe I will, but not on Tuesday in particular, and not to be completed within 30 days. And hey, for fun, tell me which two of the above I should pick and run with. Or not. Or maybe I'll just keep them all.
Off to the Twisted Tales House of Fear event at Waterstones tonight. Maybe it'll inspire me.
7 Comments on Not NaNoWriMo, last added: 10/29/2011
I haven't done NaNo in a few years, and doubt I'll return. It's a rush--of insanity. While I can sit down and hammer out a book in 30 Days, it doesn't necessarily bode well for that book...
I haven't participated yet and don't plan to start.
Besides, at the rate you've been churning out the literary goodness this year, do you really need one month of frenetic writing? Looks like you've got 12.
At the beginning of December I promised myself I'd delve into the second draft of 'The Museum of Impossible Artefacts' in January and near the end of December I promised myself I wouldn't. Of course, being a contrary sort (and struggling with my WIP short which started funny and has meandered into blahville), I've printed the first twenty pages of the book, retitled it and am staring at the empty page. But at least I have a title, right?
Reason for title change no. 74: Although the museum appears in about the first 70ish pages, I realised midway through writing the first draft that the location didn't work and will be changing it to another venue this draft.
New title is 'The Ghosts of Folding Time'... for now. Not certain I like it. We'll see. At the moment its purpose is to add a spooky, ghastly feel to my dystopian time travel book. Like having a haunting tune playing in the background, I look at the title and it reminds me to slide the book into darkness. Oh no, that sounds as if I'm posing. Scrub those lines from your memory. Like now.
And talking of books, I spent a couple of hours on Sunday night chatting online to Eric Reynolds about Theatre of Curious Acts, and it looks as if the release date will be September. Oh my goodness. Who needs to exercise when you can keep doing the happy dance.
8 Comments on WIP Wednesday - The Happy Dance, last added: 1/6/2011
I haven't blogged since Monday, now what's that all about? Oh, and while we're pondering, who stole my week off? Seriously. One minute it was Monday, then I did some twittering and added a few status updates to Facebook, and then it was now. Huh!
Now that, I suppose, is a slight lie. I did complete a 400 word short story (go me!) based on a nursery rhyme (WTF me!). And I did scratch about 3,000 words closer to the end of my book. Someone slap my wrists. I so should have completed more than that. Roll on next week. Back at work and I swear I'll get far more done. Or, I hope I'll get far more done. There's something about being pressured for time that brings out the best in us. Us as in me and you.
On the reading front. I'm reading something I can't talk about (or well maybe I can, but I won't, but it's something I'm stoked about) and then I need to beta read a friend's book (that's my Christmas treat to me), and I have books by Simon Bestwick, Gary McMahon, Jeremy Brooks, Louise Bohmer, Barry Napier, Nate Lambert, Rio Youers, oh and thanks to the postman this morning, Aaron Polson's Loathsome, Dark & Deep. Along with two other books by Aaron hiding on my Kindle, and short story collections featuring Mr McMahon and Mr Bestwick, and other mags/anthologies with friends stories in. Oh good lord, and that's not including all the books in my to read pile by people I don't know.
My new years resolution should be 'I will not buy or download any books until my shelf holds only dust mites'. But we all know, resolutions were made to be broken.
12 Comments on Who Stole Time?, last added: 12/13/2010
I haven't read anything for a couple of weeks and that annoys me, what with my tbr pile growing ever higher.
But if the "something I can't talk about (or well maybe I can, but I won't, but it's something I'm stoked about)" is what I think it is, then you can. Talk about it, that is. If it's not what I think it is then I don't know if you can. Okay? Just so we're clear. :)
I think for every book I read off my pile, I buy two more (or three). I just figure I can't die until I read them all, so at this rate I'll live forever.
Simon Marshall Jones' has revealed the cover of my chapbook 'Nowhere Hall' over on his blog. It's by Daniele Serra and is gorgeous. So excited and I can't believe I get another awesome cover. Luck can't keep spinning my way. I've printed the cover out and pinned it to my inspiration board.
Finally opened the file for 'The Museum of Impossible Artefacts' today. Okay, I've opened it on other days, but today I actually added words. Phew! I wrote myself into a corner on the 30th while trying to get as many words as possible down and I think I've just about crawled out. Gosh, it was dark in there. I'm hoping to finish the first draft this week (I'm off work - yay! Supposed to be Christmas shopping - boo!), and maybe then I'll write a short story and edit another. Or I may just twitter the week away. Goodness, I hope not.
Aaron Polson has added a Weird and Creepy Shopping List for Christmas on his blog, but he forgot one book... This. I've said it before and I'll say it again, typing 'Loathsome Aaron Polson' is just wrong.
10 Comments on Shopping, Museums and a place Named Nowhere, last added: 12/10/2010
This post is a day late, but yesterday, my book reached the almighty 50,000 words.
I shall try not to return to my slacker self now. Please ignore the drop in today's word count. In my opinion, it's still freakin' awesome. Although tomorrow is birthday cake (my sis-in-law and her twin sister are 40 - party time. And oops! just announced that to the world. Bad me), and Tim Burton's Sweeny Todd (if I have my way), and babysitting so I'm expecting a pretty zero.
Yesterday's word count: 1709 + 376 (other projects) Today's word count: 1268 + 801 (other projects) Total word count: 51,680 + 6421 (other projects)
In the immortal words of Bill & Ted, 'Party on, dudes!'
Side note: In real life, I say 'dude' far too often. I suspect it is annoying. I do not care.
14 Comments on Party on, dudes!, last added: 11/29/2010
Otherwise titled... Where I ramble on about my NaNoWriMo book.
This book is Science Fiction, I suppose. Or as it involves time travel, a giant robot (The Breaker), fabricated people and a dystopian future it can't really be anything else and yet I'm desperate to turn it into something dark and spooky. I want it to be more about the dark than the science. And the book I'm supposed to plot to follow this (not a sequel at all or even in the same universe) is science fiction too - alien invasion with a creepy twist. Or a creepy twist, I hope.
When did I become a science fiction writer? And can I be a science fiction writer when I'm sure my science is seriously flawed? I mean, time travel shouldn't involve supermarket trolleys ever... Then again, maybe it should. I write dark stuff. It just so happens that this dark stuff happens some time hence. Well part of it. And that some of the people don't realise they're not real, that they're fabricated. But then, if no one ever told them how are they to know?
Ah, then there's the whole 1920s part of the book which I've toyed with making the 1970s (because I lived through that era - and adore the 70s) or maybe contemporary (because I'm lazy and because my Jake has a thoroughly modern voice because well, I'm lazy).
'Tis a first draft. I suppose I should stop overthinking. Can you stop overthinking?
And ooh look, I passed the 40,000 word mark.
Friday's word count: 1287 Saturday's word count: 667 Today's word count: 3350 + 1413 (other projects) Total word count: 41,601 + 4763 (other projects)
11 Comments on The Museum That Isn't a Museum, last added: 11/22/2010
Images of a trolley riding time traveller springing to mind...I agree with Katey. And well done on the word count. Isn't it frustrating how we spend so much time overthinking the first draft when really we should just be getting it down. But then, I guess we just want to get it right.
PS Have finished Strange Men. It's bloody brilliant. Congrats again.
To hell with the science. Science, magic, call it what you will, it's a gadget that takes you through time. And as Aaron said, you're a Cate Gardner. So you can do whatever you like.
This one sounds deeply funky. And if anyone can pull off a time-travelling supermarket trolley, it'll be you. :D
16. Do you write romantic relationships? How do you do with those, and how “far” are you willing to go in your writing?
Romance has been lacking in my fiction lately (if you discount the girl who sorta dissolved). I desperately tried to shoe-horn a romance (and failed) into my YA 'Grim Glass Vein'. My first books though were all about the kissing and other things. Oh yes, once upon a time my characters went far.
17. Favorite protagonist and why!
Right now, Meg (from 'The Museum of Impossible Artefacts') because she's awesome and so much braver than me.
18. Favorite antagonist and why!
Right now, Derek Winters (from 'The Museum of Impossible Artefacts') because he's despicable.
19. Favorite minor that decided to shove himself into the spotlight and why!
Serena Tierney in 'The Maiden Phoenix' (how embarrassing - another unpublished novel). One minute she was a small love-interest part slated to die, the next she was doing the killing (and enjoying it).
20. What are your favorite character interactions to write?
I love it when they're verbally sparring with a tinge of sarcasm in the air.
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In other news, Poe Little Thing have accepted my story 'The Quiet of the Hour Glass'. And it's pro-pay. So happy. Ignoring the fact my book, 'Theatre of Curious Acts' was accepted in July by Hadley Rille (because that's a book not a short story) and that in the meantime I've placed stories with two markets where I was invited to submit (Spectral Press and Red Penny Papers), I haven't had an actual slush pile sale since May 8th. Me, panic? You betcha.
NaNoWriMo Catch up:
Yesterday's word count: 1711 Today's word count: 2047 Total Word Count: 36,297 + 3350 (other projects)
Fun Times: Meg and Jake (though in this draft I'm still referring to him as Ben - don't ask) are at the wall at the end of the world. It's mighty high and mighty wide and if they linger there too long, they'll end too.
12 Comments on 30 Days of Writing Questions - Part Four, last added: 11/21/2010
Today's Word Count: 1822 / 523 (short story) Total Word Count: 6865 /523 (other projects) Time Frame: 1924ish
Things I discovered today: Rob 'Magic' Turner is a comic (I've missed humour) / Ben has a goldfish. It doesn't have a name / Went to bed thinking, 'Yay, I'm on track, I'm a little over the word count. I can do this,' and woke up to the realisation I needed to hit a brand new 1667 words #egofail The most important thing discovered today: This is FUN. Googled: 1920s Magic Tricks
8 Comments on NaNoWriMo - Introducing a Theme Tune, last added: 11/6/2010
Day one of NaNoWriMo so let's start the month off with a little 'me' NaNoWriMo history.
My first attempt was in 2007 with an unfinished book titled 'Fractured Wings'. It was poop, my computer broke down mid writing it and the thing never did get finished. I have no regrets.
My second attempt or rather, my first success, was in 2008 when I completed 'Theatre of Curious Acts' which will be published next year by Hadley Rille. Success indeed. I suspect the similar title for this year's NaNoWriMo attempt is supposed to be a good luck charm.
Didn't play last year. Decided to get out my pom poms and cheerlead instead. And now we have this year... Stats so far:
Daily Word Count: 945 words (gulp! A combination of dayjob overtime and I always find the first few days of a new book slow going - actually, in comparison to normal starts a count of 945 words rocks). Total Word Count: 945 words
Characters Playing: Meg Cooper, Cally Darling, Amelia Darling, Baguette Girl (huh!), The Press Gang, Evil Baguette Seller Time Frame: Dystopian Future - Big Brother has you in chains - what, you expect me to have figured out the exact year?
Things that surprised me: There are stone sentries. Huh! Who invited them to Oldfield Park? Now, I'm going to have to figure out if I can weave them into the plot later on and if not - bye, bye stone sentries. And an, 'Oh, that helps round off the end' moment.
9 Comments on Day One - The Museum of Impossible Artefacts, last added: 11/2/2010
Twelve days until NaNoWriMo. Twelve lousy days. I am the definition of panic.
Still working on my covered in red scrawl story. I have 3,000 words licked with another 4,000 to be prettied. Of course, the previous 3,000 will go through further surgery before I release it. So, no I didn't complete my edits at the weekend. I worked hard though and I have a title I somewhat like - Nowhere Hall.
As for the aformentioned NaNoWriMo, I decided this morning that the project is too big for me. It's not labelled 'mad escapade' for fun. Well, okay it was, but now it's seeming like a mad escapade in its entirety. I want to set part of it in the 1920s, I really do. And I meant to do lots of pretty 1920s research, but I haven't. I wandered around Waterstones last month and couldn't find one 1920s related book - god bless Amazon. Not that I ordered any from Amazon either. If this blog was twitter I'd be hashtagging #mefail. I'm considering changing the 1920s portion to the 1970s because, I was alive then and sort of remember it. Crap, did I just admit to that on the web. Of course, that would still require some 1970s research and I need to write how many words a day during November?
Okay, breathe...
In the bath this morning - best thinking always occurs there - I decided I should go for my other novel idea instead. I have a title, characters and an idea that I think is awesome (but then I would)... Of course I have no plans worked out at all for that book, and my other, The Museum of Impossible Artefacts, does at least have 14,000 ish words of notes.
Is it December yet?
8 Comments on Twelve Lousy Days, last added: 10/20/2010
I have tons of 1920s music I can give you, if that'd help! (Hell, just watch a bunch of episodes of Jeeves and Wooster, Poirot, and Boardwalk Empire, then read some F. Scott Fitzgerald! Er, wait, that'd be lazy research, huh? Dammit!)
You are going to slay this novel. I have complete and utter faith in you. And I'm right here beside you! We'll roll around in our chairs, procrastinating on Twitter! ;)
I haven't done NaNo in a few years, and doubt I'll return. It's a rush--of insanity. While I can sit down and hammer out a book in 30 Days, it doesn't necessarily bode well for that book...
Me, I'd go for the ghosts and the zeppelins, but that's because I love airships. See ya at Caffe Nero.... :)
That...that sounds like the perfect book to me. *breaks down and weeps that you're not going to publish it*
I'm all for disappearing houses (to start with).
And I'm one of the mad ones doing Nano again, for the 5th year in a row. 3 failures to complete. Let's hope it is not a repeat of those performances.
I haven't participated yet and don't plan to start.
Besides, at the rate you've been churning out the literary goodness this year, do you really need one month of frenetic writing? Looks like you've got 12.
Abandoned streets and disappearing houses seems to go well together. Tony like.
Nano can kiss my rear. I liked the idea of it, but it never quite worked out for me.
Aaron, Theatre was a NaNo book which should mean I'm rather partial to NaNo but I'm not.
I suspected as much, Simon
Apologies, Kate (but it is rather a mess).
Me too, Mary (disappearing houses that is). Good luck.
OMG! Gef, I so have you fooled. I haven't written nearly enough this year.
Me and NaNo are friends that fell out, Anthony