All done!

So the final edits for Cold Fire went back and the story is now back with the publisher for proofreading and final jiggling of the file format etc... I'm very excited about Cold Fire, although I hated thinking about doing the edits actually doing them was a good thing for me. It meant I re-connected with the characters and it's sparked off lots of ideas for sequels.

It also meant that I had an excuse to work solely on one piece of writing. I'm so glad that the edits turned up when I was feeling slightly better because if they had turned up earlier there was going to be no way I would have been able to get them done so quickly.

Now they are all done I can focus on other projects once more. I really need to get focused on a good number of them but life at the moment isn't allowing me to just concentrate on them. Hopefully one day soon! (but don't worry I'm still writing, I'm presently working on some short 2k pieces for various submissions)

They've arrived!

So I'll be dipping below the radar once more for a short while as Cold Fire edits have arrived. There's not masses to do but I want to make sure I get it right so I'll post once I've finished them!

In the meantime keep checking the Britwriters journal I've added an introduction there today and there will be many more things posted up by the wonderful writers who are part of it all.

http://wulfwaru.wordpress.com/

Is the site link :)

Well.....

I'm still ill, although I am feeling much better today. The one thing I've got to be careful of is going out and doing too much when I'm not fully well. So I'm taking things easy and still sleeping lots.

I've been writing bits here and there slowly getting that word count up, I'm not working on anything in particular since that currently takes up too much concentration, so I'm just relaxing and letting the words flow. So far it's a small little piece on packing (the practice of wearing pretend male appendages under normal clothes) which is fun but I'm trying to make sure it's not bogged down too much by words.

It was my partners birthday yesterday unfortunately because I was ill he spent most of the day running around after me (I feel so guilty!). Thankfully I'd got all his presents in advance so I had fun watching him open them all :) I got him lots of different DVD's and some books which he had wanted for ages. We'll be watching the DVD's when we're both feeling better (he's also not feeling great poor thing).

In other news yesterday I made my first post on the Britwriters Journal. Before we can talk about ourselves the deal is that we have to make at least one post on British life so I picked the Pearly Kings and Queens to write about. You can find the post here: http://wulfwaru.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/the-kings-and-queens-of-london/

Right now off to get a cup of tea!

Sorry I've not been around!

Although I've been meaning to update this journal all sorts of things have conspired to prevent me from doing so. For the past week or so I've been so ill I've not moved far from the bed and I've been unable to read,write and use the computer (eeek!). So I've been pretty much silent all over the Internet.

Seventy Days of Sweat has now officially finished and I'm in the process of collecting all my words together to see how many I managed to do this time around. I know it's much more then it has been on the other two but I'll make a big post about all of that later this week.

I'm also now part of a British Writers journal, I've not made a post yet but I'll be putting one up about quintessential British life shortly followed up by an introduction post about me. Have a look at all the other posts up at the moment: British Writers

Now off back to catching up!

Bump in the plot

So the spy story was going along perfectly happily, I even have the end in mind. However I have a slight issue of how to get there, whatever I write just doesn't seem to work properly. So I'm going to muse over some ideas and place the whole thing on the back burner for a little while.

I know I said I'd get this one done but it's just not playing ball and the worst thing I can do is force it to work.

So I'm back to looking at Melting Point 2 and Tools of the Trade, and if neither of them are playing ball then I've got a few short and sharp pieces to work on that have been bugging me for ages. Okay so I've actually got an entire notepad full of ideas all crying out to be written but I can only do so many at a time!

So off I go to see what I can work on!

~*~

Telly: Nothing presently
Music: Billy Bragg
Choc/Yummy: None at the moment
Mood: Not really anything
Main Writing: 1140
Flash Writing: None so far
Reading: Nothing! I wont until I get at least one thing done

An acceptance

So the news that I was going to tell you!

My short story Desires in Mint will be published by Tassels and Tales (see image below) and will be available to buy from their site (I don't have a date when it will be up but I will let you all know when it happens).

Desires in Mint is a fun little story of a wife who expands her knowledge and gives her and her husbands marriage a boost with some throat sweets. I hope all of you who read it enjoy it! Since it is a Nicole Gestalt story it is of course only suitable for those 18 and over.

Anyway even before the story is up on the site why don't you pop over and have a look at the place.

~*~
Telly: Nothing presently
Music: Half Man Half Biscuit... no really that's what they are called
Choc/Yummy: None at the moment I've only just got up!
Mood: Productive, with a really bad sore throat
Main Writing: 650+ words on the spy story then a quick 884 words typed up from another story
Flash Writing: I guess the 884 words is a flash piece!
Reading: Nothing! I wont until I get at least one thing done

Seventy Days of Sweat Update

Well I thought since it had been a while I would update you all on my progress in the Seventy Days of Sweat challenge. It's now only got a week to go and I'm really hoping the organisers continue to run another one, since although it doesn't increase my output it does help to build a sense of community and that's important.

This is the third Seventy Days and in the other two although I fell a good number of words short of 60k I did get the goals I wanted done. This time however I decided that I would write at least 60k as well as getting a number of pieces totally finished. I did a rough count up earlier this week and I was just short by 7k, so the good news is I'll hit 60k this time around!

Once it's all finished I'll give my words and proper count and then I'll post up what I've written over this time.

Oh by the way as for the good news I mentioned a couple of posts ago keep your eyes peeled it will be coming soon!

~*~
Telly: Nothing presently
Music: None at present
Choc/Yummy: None at the moment I've only just got up!
Mood: Productive, with a really bad sore throat
Main Writing: Nothing so far except this journal
Flash Writing: Nothing
Reading: Nothing! I wont until I get at least one thing done

What happened to Spring?

It seems in the past few days that winter has left only to be replaced by Summer. I'm sure the good weather we're presently having wont last but whilst it does it's best to enjoy it.

In terms of writing I've been working on the spy story still. Sometimes I don't realise the flaw in my own writings until they are pointed out to me, my biggest flaw is trying to do too many stories at the same time and then getting all stressed over the different plot lines. So I've been solely concentrating on the spy story. It's just over 5.6k and I know where I'm going with it, and will get there soon (hopefully).

Once that's done however I've got a few short pieces to work on for some anthologies before working once more on Melting Point 2 and Tools of the Trade.

I feel I've got a sore throat coming on so although I've not done much writing today I'm going to call it a night and try and get some sleep!

So I've done it again....

Very often when I'm writing I don't notice the time which is why I was up until six this morning writing a story that I hadn't meant to write.

Melting Point 2 is coming along nicely although I didn't add to it yesterday much. Tools of the Trade I haven't touched at all but I'm plotting and planning in my head about it all the time. Last nights writings occurred because I was thinking about a story I've been meaning to re-write for ages, and oddly enough last night seemed the right time to do it. So now I've got another piece on the go! This one is a female spy on the run story who gets help from a delicious farmer she meets on a train. I've not got a working title for it yet but when I first wrote it I planned it to be a story in three parts or a trilogy. The way things are working out with it it looks like it will be just that. So off to carry on work on part one!

~*~

Telly: Nothing presently
Music: None at present
Choc/Yummy: None at the moment I've only just got up!
Mood: Productive
Main Writing: Nothing so far except this journal - however I wrote 2.6k last night
Flash Writing: Nothing
Reading: Nothing! I wont until I get at least one thing done

Good news

So I have some good news to tell but... I'm not letting you all know yet because I need to get it all finalised. I'll let you know as soon as I can.

Writing has been going a little all over the place over the past couple of days but that's because I've got a few pieces needing editing and some still to be typed up - all of which are for deadlines coming up this month so it's been down to it.

I've got lots more procrastination tools, but I'm doing my best to stay away from them!

Anyway back to the writing!

Procrastination

Today my print copy of Coming Together: Under Fire (which has my story Melting Point in) turned up this morning (I'll put a picture up of it soon). It's currently next to my writing computer waiting for me to read it. It's the first book that I've actually had a piece of work in so it's got the first place on the shelf, although I know soon others will be joining it.

In other news Melting Point 2 is going ok, I've slowed it down a little because there's a couple of scenes within the story that I need to get right and I want to spend my time over, although I need to keep telling myself that this is the first draft and they are usually very messy.

We've finally moved all the furniture around so I have a computer all set up for my writing. The computer isn't connected to the network so I can't go surfing on the internet with it. Now you would think this was a good plan, giving me more time to write and less time surfing etc...however it also has lots of screensavers and other lovely time eating devices upon it. I would begin to clean them off but then there is a point where that action also becomes a time eating event. So I'm leaving it all as it is and stealing myself to get the words down.

I've got a piece I need to edit this week, as well as a number of pieces to type up and then edit. As well as working on Melting Point 2 (I'm hoping to have it all done and dusted by Sunday - at least the first draft), and Tools of the Trade of course.

Anyway enough procrastination! I'm off to hide Coming Together: Under Fire so I don't get distracted by it, make a cup of tea dig out my food and....write!

~*~

Telly: Does a fish screensaver count?
Music: None at present although a random mix will be on soon
Choc/Yummy: None at the moment digging that out in a moment
Mood: Productive
Main Writing: 600 so far (will be much more soon hopefully!)
Flash Writing: Nothing
Reading: Nothing! I wont until I get at least one thing done