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Novel Madness, er…April Update.

April 7, 2013 in novel madness, The Girl Who Would Be King, the god killer, the novel, writing | 1 comment

via Craig Jewell Photography

This is what this is about.

Apparently, except for that one book I wrote in 2011 (and ended up loving) I am not destined to do these “novel in a month” things. Because when I do, my life fucking explodes – sometimes for good, sometimes for ill.

This time it was a little bit of both. There were some personal life things going on that made writing a lot of words a day difficult, but more importantly, as many of you already know, THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING got an awesome rave review from io9 and as a result sales went through the roof (and we hit the #1 Bestseller spot on Amazon).

So a lot of things have been HAPPENING. Many of which I can’t yet talk about, but it’s all pretty damn awesome. That said, THE GOD KILLER got a bit shifted to the side. But don’t despair! It will get done, I promise. It is still #1/#2 priority on the list of “things to do.”

Thanks for your patience and interest, everyone, and stay tuned for more news!

-Kelly

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Novel Madness – Day 07!

March 8, 2013 in novel madness, superheroes, The Girl Who Would Be King, the god killer, writing | Permalink

Still not feeling great, and had to go back to my outline a bit today and rework some things, but at least got something down! Onto tomorrow, in which I plan to write THOUSANDS OF WORDS!

Today’s Word Count: 606

Total Word Count: 3,209

Favorite thing: badass tattoos!

Inspirational image for today’s writing:

 

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Novel Madness – Day 06!

March 6, 2013 in novel madness, The Girl Who Would Be King, the god killer, writing | Permalink

I wasn’t feeling well last night when I got home from everything I had to do, so I didn’t write and thus didn’t post an update. Today was not much better and I’m going to head to bed early, but at least I got a few words down between horrible things like…preparing my taxes. Yuck. I need to have a few really big word days here…any minute now!

Today’s word count: 452

Total word count: 2,603

Favorite thing for today: The stone!

Inspirational image for today’s writing:

some of you know exactly what this is supposed to be. :)

 

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Novel Madness – Day 04!

March 5, 2013 in novel madness, superheroes, The Girl Who Would Be King, the god killer, writing | Permalink

Here’s what this about!

Crap. I really hoped to get a good 3k down (which should be about my daily goal). Huge fail. :(  I’ll try again tomorrow.

Today’s word count: 240

Total word count: 2,151

Favorite thing: A terrible Star Wars joke that is deliberately terrible.

Inspirational image for today:

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Novel Madness – Day 03!

March 4, 2013 in novel madness, the god killer, writing | Permalink

Here’s what this is about!

A lot on my plate again today finishing a Lit Reactor column, recording 3 Chicks with Sue, editing and prepping 3 Chicks, reading the script for a friend’s graphic novel so I can give him notes (woo!), plus one of the only nights of TV I find myself interested in – Girls! The Good Wife! The Walking Dead (the missing exclamation mark is not a mistake there…the show is better but still fucking hit and miss). So yeah, again, not enough words put down on “paper” but I’m still really pleased with the momentum. The ideas are good, the outline is feeling really smart, and what’s coming out feels strong. Onward!

Today’s word count: 482

Total word count: 1,911

Favorite thing from today: Soren (she rocked it)

Inspirational image for today’s writing:

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Novel Madness – Day 02

March 3, 2013 in novel madness, the god killer, writing | 4 comments

Here’s what this is about.

Today was another disappointing day from a word count standpoint, but I made awesome headway on fleshing out my outline and I’m pleased with a lot of the ideas that came from it.

Today’s word count: 521

Total word count: 1,429

My favorite thing in today’s writing: Well, it was a structural breakthrough, which is not so fun to list here, but I will say something that helped that structural breakthrough was the song “Buried In Water” by Dead Man’s Bones. Which, if you haven’t heard it, is AWESOME.

Inspirational image for today:

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Novel Madness – Day 01

March 2, 2013 in novel madness, the god killer, writing | 2 comments

And so it begins!

I’m starting off with between 5 and 10k already down, but just for my own ease I’m going to start counting at zero. Today I had a lot of other writing due (comics reviews, woo!) and some big developments (that were awesome but time consuming) as well as a friend’s band to go see…so not as much time as I hoped for, but that’s the way it goes…excuses, excuses and all that noise.

Today’s word count: 908

Total word count: 908

Favorite thing created: The Phantom

Inspirational Image for today:

Louis le Brocquy’s The Morrigan (from his Tain illustrations, 1969)

And we begin, quite appropriately, with one of the inspirational images that started it all, way back when I was working on THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING.

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