50,000 WORDS!!!

Just this morning I hit 50,000 words, and I'm so excited about it.  The story is coming along so much better than I could have hoped.  I'm back into a writing groove, and I came up with a really cool idea for something that the main character will have to deal with.  I've written down notes about it so that I don't forget.

I'm seriously considering publishing this new book under my real name, so that friends and family can enjoy it too.  It's hard to decide, because I use this pen name to retain my anonymity.  I have no idea how big my new book will be, but if it's as big as hope it is, and think it could be, people could possibly recognize my name.  I could always come up with a new pen name, but I don't know what I would use if I did.

45,000 Words!!! Also, My Late Laptop.

So my laptop died, and I replaced it with a Chromebook.  What's that you say, a Chromebook won't work for my needs!  Yes, well, I have installed Ubuntu on it, and OpenOffice, and FireFox, so I can do everything now I could do on my old laptop, only faster!!!  The only thing I don't like about it is the touchpad.  Thankfully, writing doesn't require too much touchpadding.  And, I got the new lappy-toppy for the reasonable price of $200!!!  Also, even though it has a small hard drive (16GB), for my needs it's totally adequate.  I picked it because the drive is an SSD drive, and it takes all of 2 seconds for my laptop to boot up.  *Does happy dance!*

Anyway, so I moved the book I'm writing over to the new laptop.  On the old one, with formatting and such, it said it was about 130 pages.  Now that I've moved it over, it says it's 157 pages.  So I can't really give good page counts.  The good news is that I'm trying to make this book about the size that Hunger Games was, which was 99,000 words.  So I'm nearly halfway there!  I just hope I can keep writing quality story, and come up with interesting things for people to read.  I'm going back through the start and revising up to a point, at which point I'll be adding more story.  Hopefully that goes well.

Love you readers!!! <3 <3 <3

Madison: Shattered Wings Edits Nearly Done!!!

So I just finished making the changes that my editor and fans have suggested!!!  I've sent it back to my editor to get her take and final sign-off on it!  I am so excited to get this book into your hands, thank you so much for your patience!!!  I wanted to thank everyone involved with the making of this book, and guaranteed the next book will come out much quicker than the last one!!! <3 <3 <3

Oh, and in case you're wondering, I'm still working on the first book of my epic trilogy.  I plan to come back and write a third book in the Madison series, but it may be a while before it happens.  I'm already 120 pages in on the first epic trilogy book after nearly a month-and-a-half, so I should be able to finish it in only a few more months, or so I hope!!!

Thank you again readers, you are what makes writing worthwhile!!! <3

Blog Blog Blog, All Day Long, Gonna Blog Blog Blog While I Sing My Song

So I've reached 119 pages, which I'm feeling pretty good about!  I was worried that I'd get stuck in my writing, and it seemed like I started to, so I jumped to a different section, and it seems to have helped a lot.  I've never written a story out of order the way I am on this book, and I just have to hope that I can find and fix any continuity issues that may come up.  I'm going to have to re-write some sections, because of things I'm adding in.  But I'm still loving the writing process.  Last night I was able to write while sitting on my balcony, and I got a little sun.  Nice to be able to do that. :-)

And again, I love all you readers out there!!! <3 <3 <3

Would You Believe Me If I Said I'd Written 111 pages?

Yup, I'm still making amazing progress on my current book!  I've been hoping to hit near 300 pages, and it seems like a reasonable pace, because at 100 pages I did a word count, and it was at 35,000 words.  Apparently Hunger Games had a count of 99,000 words.  I will say that my book in general isn't much like Hunger Games, but I definitely want the same kind of feel to it.  I can't stress enough how I don't want my book to be like any other book.  If it isn't original, and doesn't bring something new to the genre then what's the point?

Also, the more I write, the more things seem to fall into place on their own.  Some decisions I made early on in the story have large impacts later, and make the direction of the story that much more interesting.  Most of them seem like I'd really planned them out completely ahead of time.  Some of them I have, but some seem to have fallen into place.  Maybe they were subconscious decisions.

Even Better, 98 Pages!!!

Okay, so I sent the first 90 pages to my editor, and she said that the first 50 pages were perfect, but that the next 40 pages were enough story for the whole rest of the book.  She also said that page 90 was a good place to end the first book.  So I've decided to try and turn the second 40 pages into 250 pages, because my goal is to have about a 300 page book when it's finished.  The nice thing is that I had 2 pages that basically condensed a month's worth of days, and I can make things happen there.  Also, I'm adding more back story, explaining things better, and I've added another character.  I should be able to make it happen, but it will take some doing.  And I'm not going to just write filler, I'm going to make sure that what I add is quality, makes sense within the confines of the story, and is interesting to the reader.  I'm not going to cut corners or settle! <3