Category The Secret King

Dec 5 2012

Hump day…

So yeah, Wednesday is hump day. Middle of the week. The worst and also the best day because once it is over, you know Friday will soon be here.

I had a more productive day today than I did this last couple. Only because I came home and forced myself to start at 4pm, just like I was doing through nanowrimo.

To get anywhere near finishing this in the next couple of weeks. I need to write 1500 words a day, so I’ve made the effort, and I’ve done today’s count at least. 🙂

8.15 though and I am pretty tired. I am sure its the cold that makes me feel like curling up and just hibernating for like the whle of winter.

A lot of progress for today, so I am pleased.  Going to retire now for the night. Think an early one and some reading is in order.

 

Night all.

 

D x x

 

Dec 1 2012

The goal

I’ve had a couple of days of just pottering about with the writing and this morning we went out to get a little shopping so I didn’t get to do as much as I wanted.

However, I was quite impressed with today’s output.  1500 words… taking my total to 44,500

More for the creativeness of it than the word count. Having characters inside a whole story world come to life and make their own decisions is just amazing.

The TSK world is solid, plotted and planned. But, there is still room for characters to pop and come alive.

That happened today with a character who is in the series, but hasn’t yet appeared in the novel. It was totally enlightening.

I now have had to set myself another goal. Now that nanowrimo is technically over and my novel isn’t finished, it would be so easy for me to procrastinate December away and not get it done. I want to get it done however for my birthday weekend. 15th of Dec.

So, writing 1500 words a day and I should meet my target. I should have this part of the puzzle done and dusted. Will it be easy? No… because these characters are alive, thinking and feeling.

I guess I will have to see what happens… it is just so exciting though.

Once I have it finished, I am going to take a little break, print it out and then start the editing/organizing process.

🙂

 

Nov 29 2012

A treat :)

So, seeing as I’ve just been paid from work and I’ve just gotten over the 50k mark in nanowrimo. I completed the purchase of three domain names.

http://www.thesecretking.co.uk

http://www.thesecretking.com

http://www.the-secret-king.com

I didn’t know which to nab so took the above. 🙂

Of course this is to go with the whole TSK novel/TV series. etc etc…

We are looking to launch one of them early next year, (prob around easter) full of all kinds of goodies etc all to do with the series.

Well I do have to have a goal, and at present this is it.

Keep plodding on everyone. Last day of writing tomorrow, then you can chill for a bit…

 

Speak soon

 

Dawn x

Nov 28 2012

Writing over stress

So, yeah I managed to get the 50k done, and I am glad that I had nano to focus on.

 

Been a very stressful weekend to be honest and few days to be honest. And I didn’t blog about it before, in case well you know. Employers spy on everything nowadays. My other half was suspended on friday  from work, pending an investigation into ticket irregularities.

 

To cut a long story short, he’s a bus driver and he takes kids to and from school. He’s been in the job for 16 years and has never had a bad thing happen to him. Till Friday, when he had some inspectors on.

 

Kids are kids and they love to bunk on… but they don’t realize that without a ticket and then  them lying to the  ticket inspector saying they paid the driver, that they can get the driver into lots of trouble and of course the driver could lose his job.

 

Well it was very stressful, it wasn’t his fault, but thankfully at present he still has his job.

 

Nanowriomo has helped me deal with this over the weekend. Instead of driving me up the wall, I’ve focused on the story, wrote a lot and kept myself sane.

 

So a big thank you.

 

I am in the process of calming down. We’re okay, we will be okay. It has just been very, very hard.

 

I’ve managed to write some more today, I do want to finish this novel. 🙂 So onwards. I’ll keep you posted.

 

D x