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pbrayWriting: 3,393 words today, in two sessions. I impress myself.
This morning I sat down to write, and after several false starts managed to grind out just over 800 words. I told myself I couldn't quit until I had done at least 1,000, so I forced myself to keep writing. Even another 200 words of complete dreck would be better than stopping early.
Somehow I kept going, and when I finally came up for air I'd written over 2,000 words. It was also 1:30 in the afternoon, so I was really really hungry. Showered, and went out to a local watering hole where I had lunch at the bar while reading over the pages I'd just written. Came home, did stuff around the house, then was inspired to start on the next chapter, writing just under 1,400 more words before calling it quits for the day.
Why it's cool to be me. As I was driving this afternoon, a line of dialogue popped into my head. Traffic was too busy for me to write it down, so I kept repeating it aloud so I'd memorize it. Then, the line firmly fixed in my head, I began to chuckle. What other job gives you the satisfaction of coming up with cool lines like this?
As you can tell, the new book is a light and happy story :-)
I've sketched out the next few scenes that need to be written, so anticipate another productive day tomorrow. And I've finished assigning names to the key conspirators. Names are vitally important to me as I flesh out my characters. "Pretender to the throne #1" is a job description, not a name. To understand him I need to give him a name that fits. Hector is a very different person from Philip, and thus each name needs to be chosen with care. It's why I own five name books, and am always on the lookout for more.
Finally, in other writing news, I received an e-mail from my copy editor. The same copy editor who worked on the Devlin series is working on THE FIRST BETRAYAL, so I know I'm in good hands. He e-mailed me to let me know that he had just finished the copyedit, and he liked the story very much, which is a wonderful compliment.
This morning I sat down to write, and after several false starts managed to grind out just over 800 words. I told myself I couldn't quit until I had done at least 1,000, so I forced myself to keep writing. Even another 200 words of complete dreck would be better than stopping early.
Somehow I kept going, and when I finally came up for air I'd written over 2,000 words. It was also 1:30 in the afternoon, so I was really really hungry. Showered, and went out to a local watering hole where I had lunch at the bar while reading over the pages I'd just written. Came home, did stuff around the house, then was inspired to start on the next chapter, writing just under 1,400 more words before calling it quits for the day.
Why it's cool to be me. As I was driving this afternoon, a line of dialogue popped into my head. Traffic was too busy for me to write it down, so I kept repeating it aloud so I'd memorize it. Then, the line firmly fixed in my head, I began to chuckle. What other job gives you the satisfaction of coming up with cool lines like this?
"He is to be burned alive at the foot of her pyre, so the sound of his screams will ease her passage."
As you can tell, the new book is a light and happy story :-)
I've sketched out the next few scenes that need to be written, so anticipate another productive day tomorrow. And I've finished assigning names to the key conspirators. Names are vitally important to me as I flesh out my characters. "Pretender to the throne #1" is a job description, not a name. To understand him I need to give him a name that fits. Hector is a very different person from Philip, and thus each name needs to be chosen with care. It's why I own five name books, and am always on the lookout for more.
Finally, in other writing news, I received an e-mail from my copy editor. The same copy editor who worked on the Devlin series is working on THE FIRST BETRAYAL, so I know I'm in good hands. He e-mailed me to let me know that he had just finished the copyedit, and he liked the story very much, which is a wonderful compliment.
