With Blood Bound, I found I had four main milestones before finishing: these were at the point of the story where the total was 10k, 20k, 40k or 60k words.
And today I have reached the first of those milestones for Lionheart. I have reached 10 000 words, and have clocked over into having a five digit wordcount for this story.
So hooray! *dances*
(Oh, and as explanation for the variant of the poopcat meme, and why it says 9000 instead of 10 000, the explanation for the “It’s Over 9000!” meme is available on KnowYourMeme.com. I think I may have found
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I need to meet more people.
I was sitting at my computer, like I seem to be doing for the majority of my time these days, mindlessly searching. “Searching for what?” you might ask. Well, my answer is a pretty simple one.
“People.”
For a blogger, I think I’m both insulated and divided. I’m insulated because, well, I don’t “talk” (read: comment) to many other people, and other people don’t talk back. And I’m divided because I hang in three main groups, in three different places. I follow authors on my livejournal, book bloggers via On The Nightstand, and everyone else here
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There is a meme going around writer blogs at the moment, thanks in part to a post over on Fangs, Fur and Fey. Basically, you post the opening lines to your finished works and WIPs.
Alright then, here we go!
Blood Bound: I didn’t believe in vampires until my brother came home from college as one of the undead. ((I know the one on the writing page is different, but this is the one I like best, and so do a lot of other people. The opening is being rewritten for many things, but restoring this line is a big part
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12 July 2009 Writing Meme
I swear I have too many ideas in my head sometimes. JK may think this is shiny, and a byproduct of me having a shiny brain (it was all very sudden in the chat: “You have a beautiful mind.” “What?”) but it’s also an annoyance. I’m sure some people reading this will understand the problem I am facing.
“BUT I WANT TO WRITE [NEW IDEA] NOOOOOOOW!” </VerucaSalt>
I have far too many ideas that I just want to write. I’ve deliberately set aside the Blood Bound sequel despite it having festered for several months, as BB itself is still being edited
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It was a toss up between posting here or at On The Nightstand, but eventually I decided that it might just be best to crosspost it to both blogs (and be sure to untick the journalpress plugin for my livejournal and dreamwidth accounts on one, to avoid even more double-posting) as there are two different audiences, but both might be helpful.
Although not as big as some other bloggers’ piles, I do have a wee bit of a “to read” pile building up. I would take a photo of said pile, except I cannot find my camera. ((Isn’t that the
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The latest film adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel stars Ben Barnes as the titular character, Colin Firth as Lord Henry Wotton and has Rachel Hurd-Wood as Sibyl Vane – all three being actors I adore and eagerly wait for their next projects. That was how I discovered this movie was in production a long time ago – I was checking out Hurd-Wood’s next projects and this was on the list. And I squeed.
And for those unfamiliar with the tale, Wikipedia’s plot summary for the movie is as follows:
When a naïve young Dorian (Ben Barnes) arrives in Victorian London he
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In an effort to get me to blog a little more on this website, I have decided I am going to write a few entries or so about my influences. These don’t have to have been conscious (although some would have been) but they definitely influenced the way I saw characters, storylines and world-building – or provided inspiration thereof – and thus eventually affected my own writing.
One of these things was a little series called Gargoyles.
One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It was a time of darkness. It was a world of fear. It was the
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When I started studying classics and anthropology in my first year of university our study of myth began right at the very beginning, with aetiological myths.
Aetiology is the study of causes, origins, reasons. In mythology, an aetiological myth explains, superficially at least, the reasons why a certain state affairs exists. For example, Hesiod states that the story of Prometheus trying to trick Zeus by offering him only bones concealed in fat “explains” why humans offer sacrifices of bones to the gods. [Greek, aition, cause + logos, word, the study of.]
I’ve been thinking a lot about aetiological
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