Finally back.

Okay, so it's been quite some time since I have posted. But my internet is finally fixed and in full force! Now I really have to get back to my courses, but first thing is first. Blood Donor is going on hold until Pirates is edited.

My goal this year is to send pirates off to a publisher. That means I have to hurry up and finish it. And seeing as there are really BIG changes being made to the novel, then I really have to put alot of my time into it. Then I can focus on Blood Donor.

So far I have 7000 words edited. The first two chapters were completely cut (Which was about 10k) and two more chapters have been added in between. A lot of the story will connect up, but there were a lot of things that just needed to be cut.

Update

It's been a while. My internet is stuffing up all the time and so it is very rare that it ever works, just on the off chance.

Blood Donor has pretty much been put on hold whilst I do edits for pirates. I never actually realised how big a job it was going to be to edit Pirates, my writing style has changed a whole lot since last September when I began writing the book. I have a different vision for the entire story and there is a lot of tightening to be done to the sentences. Right now I am working through chapter by chapter, just trying to get it all done it's slow progress, but it's coming together.

Pirates of Hcallaec

It has been a while since I looked at the finished manuscript of pirates. I had planned to already be in the editing stages of that book, but it has taken me a while to get some ideas flowing for it. But now all the ideas are hitting me straight on and I can think again. I just needed a little time.

Hopefully this week I will be able to finish the first read of the entire manuscript. Then I can hop to the changes. It should be fun, and definitely a learning curve in my writing. But I still have a lot of hope for this book. I still think it is the best story I've come up with so far.

I just have to re-meet the characters. Learn who they are again. It'll be a challenge, but it will also be a lot of fun.

Still here

I'm still here. Haven't posted for ages. I'm heaps behind in all my assigments and I really haven't done much writing. But I sat down and wrote another scene for Blood Donor tonight and I'm pleased with the progress. Almost at 10,000 words now, so it's getting there.

9336 / 200000

BD 4

Well this is the 4th day of writing (I had Saturday and Sunday off *.*) and things are going pretty well with Blood Donor. I have to admit that I am enjoying it, and there is a lot more drama to it, way more conflict. I've really been able to be flexible with my outline on this novel and I'm absolutely loving it.

The progress of this one is now 5,760 words and 6 scenes long. I'm really loving writing it. ^^

5760 / 200000

BD 3

Bit late on this post ^^ Anyways, I now have 5 scenes, two of which are completely new scenes that I decided to just add in on the spur of the moment. I'm now glad my outline wasn't completely finished, because it has given me so much freedom and flexibility when I am writing.

I've decided to do the two month challenge at 2Yn over April and May. I've chosen the options for writing 122,000 a month for Blood Donor, and for a rewrite of 30,000 words for Poison (though I know this will probably surpass 30,000 words that I have to rewrite.) I was hoping the challenge would give me the competitive edge that I need. I have all day off tomorrow from work, so I am hoping to get a lot of writing done, and then I can focus more on my editing. ^^

I've made it to 4,416 words now, so it's slowly climbing. And I don't hate it, so that is always a plus ^^ now, only 195,000 to go, lol.

BD Day 2

Things are going pretty well for this story so far. I'm enjoying writing it, and I'm only three scenes into the entire novel. Though my scenes are far longer than what I planned them to be, so it looks as though I won't need as many.

I never realised how much I really love the flexibility of a bare bones outline. For some reason that always scared me before, but now I can really see how great it is. After writing the first scene in my outline, I was able to see that the second scene really didn't fit just there. So I added in another scene and brought in one of the other main characters, which will bring in some connections. It excites me that I have so much freedom to work with for this novel.

Anyways, the word count so far is 2,880. Pretty good start. Well at least I think so, lol. ^^