I’m Pondering Word Counts

First of all: I reached the 45k mark for The Circled Green. So hooray for that. My goal is to reach 55k by the end of the month, which means I have to write about 500 words a day. As that’s what I have been writing for the past little bit, that shouldn’t be too [...]

She’s A Vampire (Writer)

Last night I went to bed at about 11. About two and a half hours later I woke up with the burning desire to write something. Normally I would roll over and go to sleep but this time I was afraid that if I did do that I’d lose it. It was a new beginning to Blood Bound, and I like it. It takes the basic idea, the sentence of “I didn’t believe vampires were real until my brother came home from one of the undead” and expands on it. It’s a lot smoother, and it brings forward the voice and the setting much better than the original draft.

Another Blood Bound Short

Over at her blog, Prophecy Of The Sisters author Michelle Zink hosts a thing called Thursday Night Write ((Which for me is more Friday Morning Write, but whatever)) where she posts something – an image, a song maybe – and then we have to write for a set amount of time whatever is inspired by that image.

What came out of her latest Thursday Night Write was this, a short piece from the long history of Athanasios, a character mentioned repeatedly in Blood Bound, but doesn’t actually appear until the sequel.

Not that this story is from Athanasios’s POV, of course.

A Random Blood Bound Drabble

I woke up in the middle of last night and found myself scribbling down a drabble. After a bit of polishing, and the addition of a few words to make it a round 100, here it is.

Monday Inspiration: Pushing Daisies

In an attempt to motivate myself into posting more often on this blog (even without comparisons to On The Nightstand, postage here is rather lacking), I have decided to do A Thing – an attempt at a weekly meme where I post one thing (a picture, a quote, a video, a song) that has inspired or influenced my writing/a story in one way or another.