What? 30K What the heck?

I've been doing the NaNoWriMo this month. I've been working steadily on my new book, and I'm 30k words in to the run of 50K! Check it out at nanowrimo.org.

More later.

For Your Year End Gifting Needs....

So... I am now offering my first NaNoWriMo book, the one that this blog is named for, on the Amazon Kindle store.

O'Connor's World is the story of Molly, her mother Wendy, and their derelict spaceship "Luck of the Irish". The story follows the pair and their search for the most precious thing in the galaxy... water.

I like the story, and so does Jane Vvedensky, my editor. It's less than a buck and it works on the very popular Kindle Electronic Book Reading System. If you don't own a Kindle, you can get Kindle reader software for PC, Mac, iOS, Android, and more!

So, if you would be so kind as to go here... http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00APMM5N8 and check out the book.

(And, if you want to buy, read, and write a review, I wouldn't complain.)

Day 30 - ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!

So... finished. Whew!

Having said that, I think this was MUCH easier than last time. I mean like MUCH MUCH easier.

You know what? I'm not done... I mean not by half... not by a third... and that seems to feel very good to me.

So, I think I'm going to do this for a while longer. Maybe not 1667 pages, but I could certainly do 1k/day. Think about it, take sundays off, and that would be 315K pages A YEAR! That could be an amazing novel... like a "Song of Ice and Fire" type book. Or maybe two or three shorter books.

This weekend, I'll also have my first book, officially "O'Connor's World", on sale electronically. It will be at Amazon, I want it at PLAY and prolly iBooks. With Barnes and Noble's change of policy, being that you change credit cards you loose all access to your past purchases, is unacceptable to me. (I mean, this is electronic publishing. One of the advantaged is that you can go and get a book that you lost, or went away when you upgraded a device. Seems perfectly logical to me.) So, one format I don't have to create. ;-)

So, off for victory dinner... then back into the breach!

PS. I hope everyone finished their NaNoWriMo books as well. To those of you who did, good on you! To those of you who haven't, just think of the head start you have on next year! :-)

Day 15 - Half Time - 26,873 words

I feel that somehow sports metaphors are now appropriate seeing that we are now looking at the reason of the rhyme being diminished by half.

Sorry, can't just say, "We are at the half way point." as I normally would. I've been writing today. I thought I was way off the pace this week. After being ill for at least two days this week and dropping behind Monday and Tuesday, and having a work thing on Wednesday, I thought I was done fore.

But, over the last two days, I managed to pull off a massive workload. I did almost 4k of words from Wednesday night to Friday afternoon. But, some how, I thought I had written more. But, alas, there were only the ten chapters I had completed. Must've been my imagination.

Until this evening. I needed to see how I had described Ms. Key, basically the baddie in my story. Ms. Key has mutated a little from a master thief, to a fanatic doing the bidding of... something out at Pluto. But, she'd changed, and I wanted to have her appear at a Ball in the 19th Century equivalent of a backless dress. (Which might actually BE a Little Black Dress, but I digress...)

So, I go back into the story where I think I put the piece of the story. Amazingly, no Key. I checked the rest of the story going forward, no Ms. Key. Then, back to the beginning of the story, still nothing. Where had I left my Key? (Sorry...)

Well, I'm doing a mobile writing thing with the main document on my MacPro laptop (Eve), and most of the data being input by my Nexus 7 (Priss) with a Motorola wireless keyboard (Motoslave). Well, in the transfer from Priss to Eve, I forgot to add in this Key section.

Now with the problem solved, my writing is increased by another 2K of words! Where I was depressed  and ill at the early part of the week, I am now rejuvenated and enthusiastic.

Go ahead, coach, put me in for the second half!

Day 07 - 12,425 - OMG!

Wow! I mean, WOW!

I am really excited by this. And, oddly, proud of it. I haven't been writing fiction for that long. I'd done screenplays and one or two comics, but not this type of prose. I have to say it, this is so easy. I must've been an idiot to have waited this long.

I'm ahead in my time, I've just started the race, and I think I've just included the MacGuffin very well.

Once more into the breach, dear friends...

Day 01 UPDATE - A good first day...

Well, well, well... 2042 words today. I'm actually writing my outline, but its going so good so far.

Quick story; As we've discussed before the story Eighty Days, is a riff on Wells, Vern and all the others that started an idea which has evolved into "steampunk". I like the idea of the period and the little gears and everything. So, as I'm making the outline I'm making pitches to myself.... you know, like "Star Wars" for a feel I want for a section of the piece. It is shorter hand than trying to develop an entire story - that's for later. Now, just the highlights are good.

So, as I sat down for part two of my session this afternoon, I grabbed my Touch, put on my headphones and hit play. I heard one of my favorite singer/songwriters; Kate Bush. The song? Houdini. I love the song. It has a eary, early in the century feel with those weird "wha-wha' floating around the song.

The album it is from, "The Dreaming", was a probably the third album of Kate Bush's I bought. I fell in love with her to "Hounds of Love" and then found out that the Dreaming was probably the first time she had ventured from the shorter pop tunes to these longer,  almost epic songs. The backside (yes, kids it was a RECORD first... ask your parents) of the HoL was a single song.

So I'm grooving to the song, as she says the line, "Not even eternity can hold Houdini!" it hit me... that was the feel I wanted for my second part of the novel!

I've been a fan of Kate Bush for nearly 30 years. I still play her music, although its now on an iPod touch instead of a scratchy 45 (again, parents). She still inspires me and gives me the proper feel for what I'm working on.

Hmm... wonder if its too late to change Maggie's name to Kate?

Day 01 - It has begun...

The tools of ignorance.

I'd like to be more funny about it, but I've got some writing to do...

What are you doing? Go! Write!

Go! Go!