the 13? what happened?

I've been doing a lot of reading. My son and I are reading the same series and it's been hard when we want the same book! How it all started, there was a book sitting out of the end table that wasn't mine. The cover had a man holding a woman wearing a wedding dress with an arrow in her back. That raised an eyebrow so I read the back. I knew it was my son's book but he told me I couldn't start with it since it was book three. Since then I've read 17 books.

The last book in the next trilogy in the series won't be released until the end of March! Worse, it will be hardcover, we own the others in paperback and my son (and my storage) would prefer they all be mmp. I don't think I'll be able to wait a year but the library doesn't have it on order!

I start school next week and ordered my textbook online for half the cost of getting it at the school's bookstore. I log in on the day it was supposed to ship and find an email telling me they don't have it! DANG! Actually, (*^*&$^(*&_)(*. Sigh, it's too late to get it anywhere else, now I have to pay over $100 for it.

I started a new craft project. Someone else sewed holes along the edge of a flannel blanket (hem stitch) and I'm using the holes to croquet around the edge. I'm really excited about it.

I went to a nephew's birthday party. I was great to see family but he's 3 now and he had friends. Can you imagine the noise? Add older brothers on top of that and I stayed as long as I could....

I start another writing challenge on the first. I hope to do as well as I did the first time.

I think that's it. Oh, Happy Valentine's Day!
(I had glass swans on my wedding cake. I wonder where they are?)

70 Days of Sweat

Wow, 70 days already. Did I complete my goals? No. Am I satisfied? Mostly. I had a wonderful family vacation, had the computer crash, started school & got sick. Yep, a very busy 70 days!

The first ms I started was Sara's Jewels and I've stalled at 16K. I put it on the back burner when I started the next ms because of a deadline for subbing. This was the info given in my first post for Sven.

1) book title: don’t know yet
2) Hero: Tom Freeman / cabinetmaker
3) Heroine: Ginny Rockwood / author
4) setting: small town America (valley)
5) length: 18K


1) Sara’s Jewels
2) Dave Hoffman / webmaster
& Alex (still working on it) / horse trainer
3) Sara Phillips / works at a horse breeder
4) Southern California
5) 75K


A great big thank you to the sponsors of this challenge: Alison Kent, Larissa Ione, Stephanie Tyler, Jo Leigh, and HelenKay Dimon.

~*~*~*~

Second ms progress:
* I have a title, "Let the World Go Away".
* Ginny's name is now Lisa.
* I hit 13+k on this one but my current doc says 7115 so it looks like I'll be retyping. Now I'm REALLY glad I write longhand first. (Actually, I had lots of scene docs and did one last printout after I put it all together. I'll be retying but it will be from a print not handwriting - whew)
* I'll be back into it this next weekend (I've got a psychology test next week)
* I'm five scenes away from being complete, from first kiss (short) to the wedding/honeymoon (long)
* I've had a published author do a read through for me & received some helpful tips.


First ms progress:
* I haven't looked at this one in too long. I have no idea where I'm at!


Third ms progress:
* That's right, I started a third while between classes last week. It's still longhand so I don't know how many words, maybe 1k.
* PLUS, I've got an idea kicking around for a FOURTH - this one will be f/f! I found a couple that "would love to talk to you".


Have a great weekend.

Vacation & Progress

S took his digital camera and two memory cards, one was 4 gig, so what happened? Lots and Lots of photos. I haven't gone through all of them yet. Here's one of rain at the Grand Canyon. I think we're on the North Rim.







And one of me walking across the Colorado River. That's right, I walked across the Colorado River, twice. We stopped at the Navajo Bridge since M's a civil engineer. The old bridge is now the Historic Navajo Bridge and it's set up as a walkway. I got half way out and thought "why not" then I had to walk back to the car. M asked if I wanted to walk it once or twice. Silly me chose twice. I know I'm small, but I'm right in the middle, wearing a blue top.


I did work on my 70 days WIP while on vacation. I moved the first kiss up several pages and rearranged the remodeling project. Instead of doing just her room, she's doing all of upstairs and I mean ALL of upstairs. Now I've got to reread and see where my flow problem is! grrrr

1. a "non-date" (got it - 1: dinner at house - first kiss!, 2: shopping)
2. 1st official date - with children (got it - swimming)
3. 1st official date - without children (got it - dinner out)
4. picking up her books from storage - out of state, hotel stay both ways
5. Honeymoon

I'm up to 12,750

Good morning

I really don't want to post and lose that great pic. Gotta find where there's a place to borrow them. I've found some HOT guys but they all say copyrighted. Sigh.


WOO HOO! I hit 11,000 on my WIP. I've got two more scenes to do & a problem to fix before going back through to see if I need to fix anything else. I was really worried I wouldn't make the 10k minimum now I'm worried I'll fall in the 3,000 word space between a Quickie and a Novella!

I had to change Ginny's name. M thought it was slang for something "Ginny is also a common misspelling of Guinea, a derogatory slang name for Italians" from Wikipedia, so I changed her name to Beth. It works just fine.


I ordered business cards! True it's a little premature but half of them were free (just shipping) and this is something I don't want to give up on. Then today I got an email saying they're giving away custom magnets from your business cards. Too cool.


Falling asleep. Night.

bulbs given to Ginny

Daffodil













Hyacinth














Tiger Lily

working title plus...

I log on this morning and the first thing I do is check TA Chase's blog. He's got Founder on it! I was a bit confused at first but was so excited. I shouldn't really be surprised. I've like all the books he's "pimped".

I started writing last night and when I took a break, fell asleep. Not sure what that says about my book. M came to bed and I was laying there with my paper on my lap and a pen in my hand, fast asleep.

Between last night and I what I was able to do today, I've got another 1,117 words ~ Woo Hoo! I should be getting that much a day but I'm just excited that I'm writing EVERY day.

Ginny's name may be changed, not sure yet and the working title of her book is "Let the World Go Away".

Progress

I typed everything in. Some of what I wrote didn't make it into the word doc and parts were expanded.

Word count: 4,547

I know it doesn't seem like a lot but it's almost half (5k) of the minimum required ~yea

Then, since I thought I had caught my second wind, I wrote some more. Half an hour later, here comes Sneakers. He doesn't know what "I'm working" means so I barely got my papers moved before he settled in for a nap. Still, it was a good half hour. I'll have to type it up before I know what the word count is.

All typed up. 510 more words! I'm at 5,057 and that's HALF the minimum needed for a quickie. The maximum is 30k. That's so doable!

Still, can't blame the cat for stopping me from writing, it was a good place to end and now requires some thought about forgiveness and misunderstandings

What do you mean it's Wednesday?

I need to blog my progress over at Alison Kent's blog but that requires typing my story. I write long hand then have to kick somebody off the computer (usually son) so I can type it up.

So now that I'm on the computer and can type - there's no way I'll get a word count before Thursday (10 more minutes for me) ~ sigh

So Happy Wednesday,

Gina

P.S. I haven't seen the new movie yet (daughter did - awesome!) but I'll be getting my copy of HP on the 21st. Amazon promised!

Woo Hoo and OMG

So I'm writing an older woman/younger man story, hoping Ellora's Cave likes it. I'm still reading blogs and checking in places when I see that Alison Kent has started a Seventy Days of Sweat on her blog.

"The rules are simple. You agree to write 4 - 6 pages a day (depending on the length of your book) every day between the dates listed above. If you need to take off a day, you make up the pages another. If you don’t like to write 7 days a week, too bad. This challenge lasts for only 10 weeks, and if you have to get up early on the weekends to get the pages done, you do it."

Now that I'm got my blog cleaned up and ready for author stuff I'm going to jump over.