...Writing ur Victorian Georgian "pr0n"

I am currently writing chapter thirteen of Blood Bound, which means I am definitely near the end - outline is for sixteen or seventeen chapters. My current word count (as of writing this entry) is about 55500 words, and should increase more before I head off to Greek Society lecture in just under an hour.

The not-odd thing is that I am sitting in one of the university's computer labs, writing away. The odd-thing is that the scene I am writing? Let's just say Daniel's hand is wandering. Up.

Cue freakout.


I am still keeping up with my "800 words a day" commitment - right now I have written just under 400, and it's just gone three in the afternoon. I want to be finished with my first draft by the end of the month so javertsspy can start with the editing in October. I really would like to start querying for agents as soon as it is feasible.

I really would like to see Blood Bound in print. I really really would like to be able to make a career out of writing.



And as a bonus: Trying To Communicate, by sam_storyteller. Torchwood meets a LOLcat.

55 000 words! :)

And, for you, a little treat.

His lips on my throat stopped that chain of thought dead in its tracks. I had no idea what he was doing, what he was about to do, and without the ability to see what was coming next it was both frightening yet kind of awesome. “Uncommonly cruel,” he whispered against my skin, moving a fraction further south with each syllable. “Unfathomably cruel.”

It took me a few goes, but I finally managed to find my voice. “And why's that?” If anyone was being uncommonly, unfathomably cruel here it was definitely not me.

“Do you know how maddening it is to sit next to you but not be able to touch you?” I felt his tongue, cold and wet, rake across my pulse point; I shivered., and not because of the cold. “To smell the perfume I made for you...”

EDIT: And apparently my new moodtheme results in Gaspard Ulliel having his hand down his pants when I select horny. All right then.

I went to check javertsspy's userinfo, to see how she had settled into her new life at LJ and I spotted something.

Then I blinked. The something was still there.



That right there? The "Catherine Haines"? That's my name. javertsspy has listed me as an interest. She's the only one, as you can see.

What next? A fan comm? :P

EDIT: It's not a fan comm, but thanks to bakaknight, I am now a clickable interest.




In other news, as of writing, my current word total is 54179 words. Given that my current outline suggests a final total of 72k, I am about 20k away from finishing. If I work at it, it's very possible for me to have finished the first Blood Bound draft by the end of the month.

If so, that means I can start editing! Oh joy.

I would spend eternity doing, seeing and learning everything.

Christopher Paolini scored a $400 000 advance for Eragon.

Stephenie Meyer scored a $750 000 advance for Twilight.


Whyyyyyyyyy?!

I am so, so close to reaching the 50 000 word goal for Blood Bound I can taste it.

48290.

I think I really need to keep track of how many people have said that they'd totally buy Blood Bound if when it gets published.

I know I am already past a dozen, even with the latest addition of choc0_dumpling

Hm. This gives me hope, even as I boggle.

Need a dictionary to go with your thesaurus, SMeyer?

sa·ga noun

1. a medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.
2. any narrative or legend of heroic exploits.
3. Also called saga novel. a form of the novel in which the members or generations of a family or social group are chronicled in a long and leisurely narrative.

ep·ic
–adjective Also, ep·i·cal.

1. noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Homer's Iliad is an epic poem.
2. resembling or suggesting such poetry: an epic novel on the founding of the country.
3. heroic; majestic; impressively great: the epic events of the war.
4. of unusually great size or extent: a crime wave of epic proportions.

–noun

1. an epic poem.
2. epic poetry.
3. any composition resembling an epic.
4. something worthy to form the subject of an epic: The defense of the Alamo is an American epic.

Source: http://dictionary.com

To celebrate reaching 40 000 words on my novel, Working Title has a new layout!

Originally published at Disdainful-Soul.net. You can comment here or there.

I had my last exam yesterday (myth and storytelling, woohoo) and now I am free for two whole weeks! So I am going to relax, hang out with friends, and continue working on my novel.

Yep, working busily away on my novel. I started last week of May, and I’m already past 30k words. And that was while I was studying! Now that I have finished that annoyance, I am hoping to devote more time to the business of writing. My goal is to reach 50k by the end of the holidays (July 6), and at the rate I am going that shouldn’t be too difficult. Once I reach 40k I will be halfway to my goal of at least 80k.

I started up a writing blog to track my progress, discuss the art etc etc. so feel free to check it out.

Originally published at Disdainful-Soul.net. You can comment here or there.