Writing is one of those things that you have good days and bad days, and you can sort of describe it in terms of walking/running. Some days you can go dashing across the playing field with no problems, and the next it is difficult to put one foot in front of the other. But just because the creative juices aren’t flowing and making it easier for you doesn’t mean you don’t write at all that day. Keep going.

Sadly, I suck at taking my own advice sometimes. But sometimes I don’t, sometimes I keep pushing forward even though I am only capable of baby steps. As much as I love starting a new project (a little too much, at times) looking at my wordcount just makes me go, “Ugh, this totally sucks” and “This is going to take forever!” *whines. Up until about the 5000 word mark or so, and then it’s all, “Yeah, woohooo!” and so forth.

Well guess what? Today I moved past that wonderful first mark with Bones. So hooray!

Another piece of good news is that the final round of editing for Blood Bound has just reached the 2/3 complete mark with the completion of chapter twelve. Six more chapters to go, and then one big old run through once again to see if there is anything we missed or anything that needs to be added. I know that my wonderful beta, JK has one suggestion about a certain one-shot character who has decided he is now a thousand times more important in the grand scheme of things than originally planned. So that is one thing. More might pop up in the meantime.

Then it will be back to trying to write query letters. I am so looking forward to the prospect.

And on a third project update thingy, Lionheart is still very much in the early “let the idea blossom as I am walking about doing anything but writing” stage. Far, far too early to start writing things down, as I still need to do a heck of a lot of world-building first. But I love this bit, this mental scrapbooking for characters, costumes, places etc. and I am enjoying putting into practice the concept of using a wiki to organise my thoughts and world.

I’ll let you know how that goes. In the meantime keep an eye out on the progress graphs in the sidebar to see how I am going with Bones.