Posts Tagged ‘Bones’

Resolutions

Posted January 4, 2010 under Writing | Tagged: , , | 5 Comments

Everyone else is making their resolutions, so I’ll introduce you to some of mine. Other than the old standards of “lose weight” and “stop biting fingernails” and the new addition of “get a job”, the rest of writing-related.

  • Finish Lionheart draft by end of March.
  • Finish The Circled Green draft by end of September.
  • Write 20 000 more words for the Bones draft
  • (In order to complete the previous goals) write a minimum of 10 000 words a month.

So yeah, those are the goals. The first 50 000 words of Lionheart are already with the beta, so she can get a good going on it while I write the last 20 to 30 000 words. The big elusive goal is “get Lionheart into shape so I can query it”, and given the encouragement I have received, I hope that will a) happen and b) lead to something more.

I’d cross my fingers, but I can’t type like that.

One Sentence

Posted October 1, 2009 under General, Writing | Tagged: , , , | 1 Comment

Over on the YA forum at the Absolute Write Water Cooler, we’re having fun with a little game: Your WIP In One Sentence. I have already posted my four up there, but I want to share them over here. They aren’t perfect, and they miss a heck of a lot out, and sometimes they seem long-winded… but it’s still fun.

LIONHEART: After he is killed and his sister kidnapped by the same magical force, Leander finds himself the champion of the force that resurrected him – the long-dead High Mage blamed for the destruction of their glorious empire – and in a battle three centuries in the making.

BONES: When Dinah Gillespie discovers that the dying can see the dead – and that there is a ghost in her attic – she makes it her mission to do one last good thing before she dies, and set him free by solving a murder that occurred over sixty years ago.

BLOOD BOUND: The only thing that sucks more than vampire boyfriends and brothers is murder.

THE CIRCLED GREEN: A woman with a mysterious past is eight years dead, the man she loved and left behind is convinced by his domineering mother to stop grieving and remarry, and their beautiful daughter is being pursued by a dark faerie determined to have her at any cost – this is what happens after a supernatural being gives up immortality in exchange for human love.

What Is Dinah Reading?

Posted September 23, 2009 under Writing | Tagged: | 3 Comments

I start chapter four of Bones with Dinah lying on her bed reading and listening to music while Gregory sticks his hand through the door and waves it about in the hopes of catching her attention – as a ghost he can’t knock, and he does not know her well enough to simply walk through and say hello. Plus imagine the awkwardness if she was getting changed or something!

Anyway, just a bit of fun, plus a snippet of this WIP, can you guess what book it is Dinah is reading? :P

On her lap was a book, read so many times every page was dog-eared and the words on the spine were barely visible under the many thick white creases. The book in question was comfort reading and her favorite in the series – it was not as fancy-free and youthful as the first two, nor was it as dark as the later ones. The right amount of darkness and light for Dinah, and with a bittersweet ending. Although sadly the little bit of hope that the ending had once contained was gone, thanks to having read the rest of the series, it was still nice to pretend that she was as free and flying high as the title character.

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