Author: Maya

okay, I haven’t completely slacked in the writing arena, but I have been doing some major binge reading. I updated the sidebar “reading” list, but uhm I go through books so fast, you can bet that all of them are “already read” titles. And uhm, there are at least 25 ebook titles that I was too lazy to throw up there. I bought those in the last two weeks, and uhm, I’ve already read all of them :crying: Most all were Harlequin Romance or Harlequin Presents.

After a long, LONG hiatus from historicals, I’ve been binging on them for the last week. I uhm went a little batshit on a new to me author’s backlist, ordered a dozen, am on the last one :crying: so I had to quickly order more from Amazon and am trying to hunt down some of her OOP titles.

I still haven’t opened that last one. I’m trying to savor it. I figure I’ll last half a day at most.

Forgive the sniffly, mushy blog, but I truly have the best girlfriends in the world. They range from California, Washington State all the way to NY state, Washington D.C and then there’s the one in BF Kansas :lol2:

And truly, all it takes is a phone call to turn a completely shitty day into a smile and a laugh. I wish they lived closer. I wish I saw them more often than I do. Telephones and emails rock though.

:hug:

Not that I’ve been routine about checking in… I actually had to go back and look to see when the challenge started. I’m not very good at keeping up with word count, page count, whatever. I’m more of a kill myself until it’s done, binge writer. For this post, I have NO idea what I’ve done so far, so I’m going to have to piece it together. I’ll uhm be back in a sec with totals.

ok back with numbers. Since July 6, that’s what, 23 days? I’m just under 200 pages of written material. This spans four proposals and one contracted novel. In addition, I’ve done edits for one book and line edits for two books. I’ve turned in two of the proposals and I still want to tweak the other two, but I’ll be turning those in this next week. At that point, I’m free too work on already contracted work.

I’m not an X amount of pages type girl. I’d like to be but there are several days in here where I didn’t get squat written. I usually more than make up for those days during the times I DO write, but still, I can’t help but think how much more I could get done if I managed to write every single day.

Only one change to the cover. The new version will be posted on the Samhain coming soon pages just as soon as Crissy gets to it, and it will be posted on my website in the next week. I wonder if anyone will even notice what’s different :lol2:

driving Amy insane… :rockthefuckon:

Yesterday, I wrote an entire proposal with unmitigated glee. It wasn’t one of the ones I was supposed to be working on much to Amy’s irritation, but it’s a story that’s been brewing for awhile and I went back and forth about whether I wanted to dive into it. I figured a proposal can’t hurt :dunno:

But now I have to get back to finishing the two I’m supposed to be working on and then I get to dive into a contracted novel that I’ve actually been doing a lot of thinking about lately. I’m hoping to be done with any and all proposals this week.

Another synopsis down. I’ll have some tweaking to do, but most of the framework is there. Now i just need to write the chapters which shouldn’t take long because for once I actually know in great detail what happens in those chapters. (Kind of takes the fun out of writing them, though)

It’s early in the day and I’ve already gotten several pages written, which is nice. I’m still flirting with the idea of whether I want to work ahead on a contracted project that isn’t due for several more months, or if I want to do something else entirely. The smart thing would be to work ahead because uhm, if things go the way I want them to, I’ll be facing several more deadlines in the coming months.

when an air conditioner breaks. Lovely. Just lovely.

Hubby was heading to bed. I was going to stay up a bit longer and do some work and I mention to him as he’s heading to bed that it feels hot. That’s not exactly anything new because I’m always hot. But a few seconds later, he comes back out of the bedroom with a frown on his face and says it’s hot in the bedroom too.

Oh joy… :cursesign:

Everytime I finish a project, whether it’s a proposal or a completed work, I get all analytical and usually decide that the end result is shit. The last three books I’ve written? I hated every word. I labored over each sentence, wanting it perfect. By the end, I was absolutely convinced it was the most horrid thing I’d ever written. I threw them aside, turned them in and wouldn’t go back to them until it was absolutely necessary.

And then a most amazing thing happened. Weeks on as I was forced to reopen the story and begin reading or editing, I was struck by the fact that it wasn’t as horrible as I feared. In fact, it was quite good. Of course then I began freaking because I tell myself that it’s a protective measure. I’m deluding myself because the alternative is admitting you wrote shit. Do you see the no win outcome I’m strangling myself with?

This is why it’s so important, SO important to have people who will tell you the absolute truth and who aren’t afraid to say “yep, it’s shit.” I get positively all gooey inside when Amy tells me that I’ve just written crap because it makes the times when she says “wow this is really good” all the better.

So this morning, I’m celebrating, sorta. Because my agent, who is very good about telling me when something isn’t working, loved my proposal. I had some concerns about it. Concerns that had me tweaking one of the chapters and rearranging. But even as I read it, I really liked it and I hoped that it would work because I didn’t have the heart to make drastic changes.

I’m really tempted, REALLY tempted, to take the day off but I have other proposals to write and a good reward for the first one would be to write a kickass second one. :guitar:

Sharon: I seriously need an attitude adjustment

Amy: I hear they sell those at Sears.

Later

Amy: J just called me an asshole!

Sharon: I’m sure you deserved it.