Happy Friday! Happy August! As promised, Fridays on the blog are writing days. I’ve been plugging away at the rewrite of Into Thin Air, the very first Pendragon Casefiles novella. Since I do a pretty extensive rewrite, it’s slow going. Also, I’m exhausted this week, since my schedule has been all out of whack. …
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(personal/writing/health) Not dead!
Posted on March 18, 2013
by Val
In fact, I’m doing really well. Just amazingly busy. (What else is new?) I’m up to day 34 of writing every day. I leveled up last week, which means in order to get my points, I have to write 300 words a day, not 250. I’m not up to NaNo level yet, but the …
(personal/writing) 12 days and counting…
Posted on February 25, 2013
by Val
That’s the current chain on my writing. I have now written at least 250 words for the last 12 days in a row. I love it. I’m finally getting things done. I’ve already finished the rough draft of a short story for Every Photo Tells and gotten the synopsis for the first of the Pendragon Casefiles …
Cyber Monday – and we have TWO anthologies available!
Posted on November 26, 2012
by Val
Yes, TWO! How exciting! And they can be yours, for very little money! The first is the FM anthology – A Princess, A Boatman and A Lizard, which has my original story “Convoy” in it, along with some other fantastic stories. All proceeds go to help keep Forward Motion running, and since I don’t think …
Dealing with the sick
Posted on October 9, 2012
by Val
I hate colds. I hate colds with a fiery, cottony passion that matches the gunk in my head. Bleah. Other than that, life is progressing. I passed “Convoy” in and am starting work today on the new Advent story outline. That’s my NaNo project, so I want to get it done (the outline, that is). …
Sunday morning, and life is good.
Posted on October 7, 2012
by Val
It IS good! I’m thinking I should start inserting some graphics or something into these posts, so they aren’t all text, but sadly, I’m a writer, not a graphic designer. We’ll see. I got 1k written last night! I never get 1k written in a night! I’m so excited! Today’s goal is a NaNo day: …