It is done. “Household Lights” is finished and off to beta, at a hair over 50k words. Feels like it took forever, but I suppose start to finish it only took a couple of months. I’m rather pleased with it; or I would be if I wasn’t just ready to plotz right now. I’ve taken
38,000 — words written on “Household Lights” 4 — sequences left to write on my list enough to stuff a cushion — number of tissues applied to my massive sinus infection 5 — approximate number of Very Important pieces of mail I need to unearth for adult things like getting my car tags done 0
Well, I seem to have got off my blogging regimen just a little bit, after a brief spate. But I’m not all that sorry, because I have been writing. The odometer on “Household Lights” just clicked over 30,000 words, and I feel pretty good about them. And naturally, there was a good reason why I
It’s one of those “writing is haaarrrrd” days. So I’ll blog a little. The Interstitial Novella, which is approaching 20k words and probably has about 20k more to go, has reached the plow point — the point where the run-up momentum has spent itself and you now have to work out the work: the mass