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Man, I am still really struggling, but at least I got to cross a script off my massive list and made some headway on a revision!
NOVEL X WORD COUNT: 0
VARIOUS & MISC WORD COUNT: 2,164
TOTAL NANO COUNT THUS FAR: 9,830
PERSON/PLACE/THING I GOT TO WRITE ABOUT TODAY:
Meh. Today sucked. I mean, I wrote some scenes I really liked but my numbers are just pathetic. It doesn’t help that I’ve gotten sick (because of course I have!):
NOVEL X WORD COUNT: 0
VARIOUS & MISC WORD COUNT: 2,202
TOTAL NANO COUNT THUS FAR: 7,666
PERSON/PLACE/THING I GOT TO WRITE ABOUT TODAY:
NOVEL X WORD COUNT: 0
VARIOUS & MISC WORD COUNT: 2,244
TOTAL NANO COUNT THUS FAR: 5,464
PERSON/PLACE/THING I GOT TO WRITE ABOUT TODAY:
Mmm. Another rough day from a standpoint of numbers, but I finished my work that was due Wednesday (today) so by any measure I call that a success! 😉
NOVEL X WORD COUNT: 0
VARIOUS & MISC WORD COUNT: 2,229
TOTAL NANO COUNT THUS FAR: 3,220
PERSON/PLACE/THING I GOT TO WRITE ABOUT TODAY:
As mentioned, not a ton of words today as I was mostly working on an outline/pitch and that’s more about getting down notes, doing research, and finessing things than it is about high word count. Came in just under 1,000.
So not a great day, but this is a tough deadline I’m under. Also I had to take about 6 hours to try to switch over to my new iphone (and it’s still not done!!!! grrrrr. Don’t ask).
NOVEL X WORD COUNT: 0
VARIOUS & MISC WORD COUNT: 991
PERSON/PLACE/THING I GOT TO WRITE ABOUT TODAY:
Dazzler! Hell yeah!
I often take a (totally unofficial) stab at NaNoWriMo. I’ve only successfully managed it one year (the glorious year that was 2011). But that was a crazy success in that I not only DOMINATED my word count (over 75k on that novel) AND that novel became my book STORYKILLER.
So it’s both hard to resist the siren song of that one year’s awesome success and it’s also often something that feels like a too high standard (which I will constantly fail to meet). Anyway, I have A LOT to write right now, including really needing to get a high number of words down on a novel project, so I thought I might just give it a try again this year and might have a better shot of hitting some of these goals if I was forced to document it and be accountable.
So here we are.
Yesterday was a massive failure (long story, don’t ask) but I am determined not to be derailed!
So here’s what I have to accomplish this month writing wise. Going forward I’ll track novel writing count as one number and then I’ll just merge all the others into a second number:
NOVEL X: 50k
I need more than 50k – I’d feel better about 80k, but 50k would be amazing especially considering everything else I’m committed to.
COMIC BOOK SCRIPTS: 6 scripts
I’d actually like to get 7 done, but 6 are necessary
COMIC BOOK REVISIONS: 1 script
I’ll probably have to do more, but for now this is the one on deck
COMIC BOOK SHORT: 1
Short Story for a comic (8 – 10 pages)
COMIC OUTLINES: 1
This is due asap, so it’s first on the list
COMIC SYNOPSIS: 2
Two mini-series synopses due (asap on this one)
COMIC PITCHES: 2
I actually have 3 due, but one can wait until December (I think) so I’m backburnering it
SHORT STORIES: 4 – 6
More accurately I need to finish 3, and do 2 to 3 completely new ones
This looks like A LOT (and Jesus, typing it out it FEELS like a lot) but technically it’s probably around 100k and if I did 75k while working a full time job in 2011 then I don’t see why I can’t do 100k while THIS is my full time job. RIGHT?
Guess we’ll see!
Off to get a reasonable word count down for today. Also I’m cross posting this on my Tumblr, which, I’m sorry to say is where I do most of my “blogging” these days. So you might want to follow me over there if you want to be sure to stay in the loop.
Thanks for reading!
Kelly
Oh, here’s an image for today…cover for A-Force #2, which yes, I AM WRITING with the amazing G. Willow Wilson. WOOOO!
Cover by Jorge Molina.
Some lovely new reviews, mentions, and such for THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING about the web!
The Refined Word gave me perhaps the most fantastic compliment I have ever received as a writer – I think I full on blushed.
Stephanie’s gorgeous cover art got picked for Infinite Curio’s “Cover of the Day” as well as About Happy Books “Cover Favorites” for 6/15/13!
Never Yet Melted calls TGWWBK the next Hunger Games here. (yes!)
The lovely Kimberly over at Love YA Books put yours truly on her list of Top 10 Authors That Deserve More Recognition and put TGWWBK on her list of Top 10 Beach Reads! Thank you Kimberly!
Claudia Lefeve (great name!) mentioned TGWWBK in her 5/31/13 GOOD READS post.
A good review by Henry Fung at Fraggin’ Civie.
We’re also up to an insane 119 Reviews on Amazon and still maintaining a fantastic 4.5/5.0 star rating and we’re up to 315 ratings and 85 reviews on GoodReads.
Thanks to all of you have that have taken the time to write reviews! And as always, if you write about the book on your blog or tumblr or some such, please shoot me a link…the web is a vast place, it’s hard to find everything!
I’ve been super stressed out lately (I can’t say why, it will all come out soon enough…probably) so some awesome little surprises yesterday made it all seem worth it.
First, fellow blogger Keith Silva named me in Comics Bulletin’s “10 Of Our Favorite Comics Critics”
Pretty shocking to be in such great company – and thank you Keith so much!
And then, more bizarrely, and possibly not what I think it is, but I’m running with it anyway, Google Alerts gave me a heads up to this review of Red Sonja #1 on Newsarama.
In the review the writer refers to “she has no head” syndrome – check it out:
So…yeah, I’m sure you guys get how huge that is. The idea that you’ve made enough of an impact that others are picking up on it and using it as a definition…well, it warmed the cockles of my cold dead heart, it did.
Tags: comics!, things made of awesome
I’m trying to get better about cross posting content again. In that vein…here is a cross post to today’s hopefully super fun SHE HAS NO HEAD! which is all about creating a comics time capsule!
Other posts I’ve done recently that you might have missed?
This bit about how the new Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel X-MEN is ALL I’VE EVER WANTED!
And I did some pieces on LIT REACTOR:
This one about the resurgence of “choose your own adventure” stories (in comics and elsewhere)
This one about why people should stop hassling me to read Game of Thrones and just let me enjoy the television show (for now).
Of course if you’ve been hiding out and neglected to notice that I borderline broke people’s brains with the fact that I hated Man of Steel (read that here), here is a rather unorthodox Superman “Book vs Film” comparison on Lit Reactor.
CBR REVIEWS:
I also had the pleasure of recently giving 4 or more stars to all of the following comics:
Adventure Time: Candy Capers #1
and
Whew. Okay. That’s it for now!!!
Thanks everyone, I hope you find something enjoyable to read!
Tags: comics!, iit reactor, she has no head!, things made of awesome
via Craig Jewell Photography
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
Tags: the god killer
