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:
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. :)
Two new blog reviews went up today for THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING – both rate the book 4.5 stars.
The first is from THE PREEMINENT LITTERATEUR and TGWWBK was the first book read in her Theme Month for March – “GIRL SQUARED.”
Caitlin sums it up as: “My love for this book has been like a stick of dynamite with a long fuse. It snuck up on me, and now I am eagerly awaiting sequels and movies.”
The second review is from Miranda from ON THE NIGHTSTAND and she sums it up as “everything [I’ve] ever wanted in a comic book, in book form.”
Thanks Ladies!
You all know where to buy the limited edition illustrated hardcovers, right???
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, Lola LeFever, The Girl Who Would Be King, things made of awesome
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:
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, Lola LeFever, novels, The Girl Who Would Be King
The lovely Tim Hanley recently gave THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING a fantastic review over on his blog Straightened Circumstances saying “The story never goes where you think it’s going to; it’s always darker and more exciting than you’d expect.”
And over on A.A. Omer’s blog TGWWBK gets a nice review and a 5/5 star rating!
We’re also up to 45 reviews on Amazon (US) and have 5 stars! Pretty awesome, kids.
In other badass TGWWBK news – a TGWWBK superfan has purchased every single thing related to the book that currently exists – all prints and editions, everything!
He recently got everything in the mail and was kind enough to send in some pictures – it’s a pretty incredible collection!
All the signed prints!
And he also included a photo of ALL the swag. So much stuff!
And of course you guys know you can buy almost all of this at THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING STORE, right? AND there’s a sale going on now! 
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, Lola LeFever, The Girl Who Would Be King, things made of awesome
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:
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:
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.
Okay, so I’m doing my own version of MARCH MADNESS combined with NANOWRIMO (in March)…we’re calling it Novel Madness! And it begins tomorrow! Woo!
I’m basically going to be tracking the progress of my new novel (as I did in 2011 for NaNoWriMo), and with the hopes of finishing a first strong draft of this new book within a month. See, I have a new book (unrelated to TGWWBK) that’s going out on submission to publishers via my agent very soon (that same aforementioned NaNo 2011 project), but I want to have this next book ready to go as soon as possible and I need something to keep me on track.
So, why do you care? Other than because you’re good, kind, people who all graciously support me with your awesomeness? Well, ’cause if you’ve read THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING, then you know what book I’m writing now…and here’s a hint:
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, Lola LeFever, The Girl Who Would Be King
Here’s some things that have been going on while I’ve been too crazy busy to blog (that all changes tomorrow though).
I wrote about the Dredd movie for Lit Reactor: 10 Reasons Why Dredd Is The Best Comic Book Movie of 2012 You DIDN’T See
I wrote about Wonder Woman the CW’s in limbo ‘Amazon’: 5 Ways Looking At Comics Can Help The CW’s ‘Amazon’
On She Has No Head! – I talked about Faith Erin Hicks collected The Adventures of Superhero Girl and “8 Great Female Led Comics You Should Be Reading.”
I wrote reviews for some really great comics: Hawkeye #8, Adventure Time #13, and Captain Marvel #10.
I wrote reviews for some pretty good comics: Powers: Bureau #1, Avengers Arena #4, and Uncanny X-Men #1.
And at least one not so great comic: Justice League of America #1.
OH. AND THERE’S A HUGE SALE GOING ON AT THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING.COM, PLUS NEW SIGNED LIMITED EDITION PRINTS AVAILABLE!
Whew. Alright, I’ll try to stay more on top of things this month…swearsies.
