Monthly Archives: June 2011

Update on SocNoc (I’m Still Alive!)

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Where have the days gone?! It’s the 16th of JUNE already, what? Wasn’t it just February? Man, I’m in such a time warp. I’ve had family drama out the wazoo for the past couple of days…and now it’s finally settling down -eyes the Universe- Okay? Settle down now! My brother graduated last Friday…wow. Just yesterday he was 4 years old and chasing me around the back yard with his Big Wheel truck! Now he’s 18, going into college for some sort of music program, and just…wow. And my baby sister will be 16 in September. Oh my lord. I’ll be 23 in August. I feel ancient! Really…where has the time GONE? LOL

I’ve been busy slaving away at SocNoc this month. 16 days in at 1667 words a day says I should be sitting on 26,672 words. I am officially at 26.6k. Only 72 words behind. XD Not bad, seeing as I’ve skipped a few days when drama was at it’s finest! I don’t exactly love Hunger at the moment. Not exactly. I do at times? I do like my POV charrie, Lil’s, fiery stubbornness. (She IS a dachshund shifter after all ;D) and I am on-again, off-again in love with the MMC, Brishen. I’ve never juggled two boys vying for my FMC’s affections before, so…having a bit of difficulty in that region, but overall, I’m keeping up my word count. At the moment that’s all that matters, right? I can worry about stuff in the rewrite!

On the blog front, I appear to be failing :0 I even forget to update #ROW80. How can I forget to blog? …Maybe I’m blogophobic? Just a wee bit? No idea. I know I have to be myself, and when I actually have an idea for a blog post, I have no issue actually WRITING it. It’s the actual ideas for blog posts that I’m having issues with LOL.  I know I should blog at least twice a week, but I’m being lucky to do it once a month, if that, haha. I just don’t know what to write about? So…any ideas? Helpful posts? They’d be loved <3

Sunday #ROW80 Check-in, Updated Goals, SocNoc & The End!

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So. I joined #ROW80…to give myself goals, and to keep myself blogging. Is it working? Heckno. I’ve fallen so far behind with the blogging aspect that I’m like “Dude, srsly? We have to BLOG?” xD Yes, yes we do. I’m majorly ADD lately, zinging from one subject to the next…and Wednesday and Sunday pass without a blog post. LOL Whoops. My bad. I seriously need to create a giant sticky note. Or a reminder…or something.

Anyway: what have I gotten done in the past two weeks, you ask? Well I shall tell you :3

I finished Wolfsong. Completely and utterly finished the first draft. Well…yes, technically it’s a first draft even though it’s a rewrite of an older work. I didn’t use one bit of wordage/dialogue/etc from the Original (which was 50k and…well, bad LOL) Wolfsong is also the longest piece of work I’ve written to date at 75,000 words! -cheers self on- I never thought I could write so much :) And it might puff out a few thousand words once I get to work on the edits!

Also, a little mini-squeal: I’ve had a couple of betas read Wolfsong. They’ve picked out a couple of inconsistencies and “hey, that should be-”‘s and overall gave me good reviews and requests for a sequel (which, I have a cast for but no plot atm! Someday!) I’m very pleased with myself–and with this version of Wolfsong. -hugs the cast-  Thank you, Revel and Reena, for reading :D

And, ladies and gentlemen, I’ve decidedly joined SocNoc! 5 days in, and I’ve got a whopping 11.3k on my new YA Paranormal, Hunger. Very proud of myself here. Hunger’s cast is decidedly a little strange and are giving me small bouts of issues, but I’m bulldozing through. Changes are for rewrites, yeah? XD Yeah! So. Bulldozing on…

Now, for my Goals. I have decided to change them a little bit.

1: Write 1667 words (or more) a day on Hunger.

2: Edit 3 chapters (or more) a day on Wolfsong. (this involves the notes/suggestions Revel and Reena gave me)

3: Get my buddy Sadie to teach me how to format Wolfsong for CreateSpace (so I can get my NaNo-won free copy!)

4: Submit Wolfsong’s file/cover file to CreateSpace and get it approved and sent out :D

Just gotta get through June…and then I’ll let myself think about new betas, maybe another crit-partner, and how I wanna pursue publication: indie or traditional. Big Scary Things! :0