I hate waiting. Have I mentioned I hate waiting?

In other news:



only 15k to go. YAY!

*curses the empty inbox some more*

from the owie in the roleplay window, I made Bee a book cover. *grins*



Hardly a Van Gogh effort, but oh well lol.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092801398.html

Whether you like Stephen King's work or not (I'm not a big fan myself actually), the man knows writing. I'm in love with this article and it's so damn heartening to know that even Stephen King's muses do that whole "You don't need to know what that's about yet, just write and eventually we'll tell you" thing.

I'm an impatient wench. Want to know how impatient I am?

I finished editing my part of Lotus In The Wild this weekend even though me and Margie weren't gonna start it until tomorrow. I couldn't help it, I got all angsty missing the characters and started to reread it then just went ahead and edited as I read.

I also...wrote the opening scene for the next in the series, Lily Of The Valley. Again, I couldn't help it. My screensaver came on and some of the pics in it are of Tiernan all nakey and hot and pretty and...I couldn't help myself. And we're not supposed to start Lily until the end of the month.

So yes. Impatient much, Fae?

I also wrote another thousand words of my NaNo but am too lazy to upload it for validation right now so you'll just have to take my word for it. That put me officially over 30k for the month. Woot, I'm on track to finish in ten days if I keep going like this.

How is it possible to be writing a book in a month, editing a completed one, waiting impatiently to hear on two other completed books out to the publisher, starting writing *another* book and still be sitting here going *whine* "I wanna write..."?

And darn it Poppet's not on to indulge me so I guess I'll go to sleep. You know, sleep, that thing I don't get much of lately but randomly got 7 hours of today. And yet I'm still bored. God I need help lol. There's just no words for the lame. Is there such a thing as *too* much writing? I hope not or else I'd be in some serious trouble.

I'm only about 800 words from 30k, I could probably have reached it tonight except I wanted to bling some because omg haven't roleplayed since Friday with Margie and haven't with Poppet since, like, Thursday or something.

It's flowing like water, I'm so pleased with it. The boys are currently on the verge of nightclub bathroom smex and I'm looking forward to getting that finished tonight after I sleep for a good long time cuz I've been up for a long damn time lol. Course so has Poppet, who is currently dozing beside me. *snuggles her*

I'm so bored...I can't even focus enough to read Lotus, which I wanted to do because omg love it so much. But yeah, too sleepy. So off to wake Poppet to do breakfast and then home to sleep for a week. Or 5 or 6 hours, whichever.

Care to see the gorgeous faerie boy who's made his way neatly into Brandr and Cate's story, Lily Of The Valley as the third in a threeway relationship? Meet Tiernan:

( So not safe for work )

*fans self* Smex walking, I tell you what. *licks him*

Alrighty, so here we go with the waiting period again. Margie and I did a buttload of editing to Bee Among The Clover in the attempt to get it down to the 125k the editor wanted, but couldn't do it without completely sacrificing the story and the characters. 40k words cut is a third of the book. SO...we split it into two 80k novels instead. The midway point was a beautiful "happy for now" ending and with a bit of tweaking and some minor additions we were able to split it there and have two full novels for the price of one without losing the character and plot development.

The first is now titled Crocus In The Snow with the second keeping the moniker of Bee Among The Clover. We sent both off to the editor today so now we wait. *fingers crossed* We also finished up Lotus In The Wild and will start editing that probably here soon, as well as working out the fourth in the series, Lily Of The Valley. Man we are just cruising right along, huh? Pretty proud, yes indeed.

I'm not doing as well with NaNo as I'd hoped but with the books now off to the editor and not having started anything else, I should be able to catch up.

Whew, what a whirlwind. As I told Margie just a bit ago, being a writer for real is a lot more exciting than I ever thought it'd be lol. I just want to squee at the top of my lungs I'm so excited. Gosh I hope she likes the split.

With NaNo still two weeks off, no Lotus to work on, no Margie to muse the two upcoming novels with and no roleplay partner to goof off and write just for fun smut with, I am left thinking I ought to have a little side solo project to work on at times like these.

I'd been all, no Fae you're plate's too full as it is, quit it, but now I'm sitting here with a whole weekend and nothing to write.

Watch, I'll start something and suddenly the time will be gone again and I'll bemoan the fact that I ever started something new in addition to the madness that is my current writing schedule. Gah.

I suppose I really ought to finish my part of the Bee edits. But that'll take all of a couple of hours at this point before I'm done and can't do anything else until Monday when Margie and I can discuss which scenes we want to delete and all that.

*wanders off bored and wanting to write and pondering what to do to remedy that*

EDIT: Why thank you Adam and Ethan, you're absolutely write I did leave your story unfinished. Yay, side project found (or, rather, refound)!

Purdy shiny...

I'd had no intention of doing NaNoWriMo this year...I have a book in submission, one in progress, one being mused and several others waiting to be written, not to mention the joint fic and roleplay writing I do just for fun.

*sighs* Then today this beautiful Egyptian boy wandered into my office, sat his pretty painted self on my desk and started talking. I'm such a sucker...so guess who's going to be doing NaNoWriMo this year after all? I have no illusions I'll actually finish in a month but oh I want to write this boy's story.

Now if he'd just tell me his name.

Margie and I both very much want to write a prequel to the Garden Of Exile series, to tell the story of how Roman/Marcus first became enslaved by Wulfgar. The problem with that is there is going to be a lot of non-con, sexual violence and squicky stuff that we're pretty sure publishers won't touch with a ten foot pole.

But we still want the story. So, I was thinking, what if we wrote it and then offered it as a free-to-read on our website, in .pdf format or hosted right there on our server, whichever. I thought it might benefit us in a couple of ways, in giving visitors to the site a free to read full length novel, which is always fun, as well as maybe spark some serious interest in readers about the rest of the series, which they'd need to buy to read.

What does anyone think, good idea, bad idea?

I felt it when Margie and I finished Bee Among The Clover and I feel it just as strongly now with Lotus In The Wild. It's like watching your child go off to college alone and all you can do is hope you did everything right and gave them everything they needed to succeed.

We're still waiting to hear from the publisher about Bee. The partial was accepted, as most everyone knows, and now we wait for the response to the full manuscript. We're not overly concerned by the timeframe, if at all, we've been keeping ourselves busy, as evidenced by the near completion of Lotus.

Lotus has turned out to be shorter than Bee but then, Bee was an absolute epic monster lol. It will probably top out at just under 110k words, as opposed to Bee's just over 160k words. I don't think it's at all lacking, despite being a good 50k shorter.

I'm personally thrilled with the way it's turned out. We weren't real sure when we started just what we were going for or what was going to happen, we had the barest beginnings and let the musi take it from there. Sure, we had to go back and rewrite some chunks and added nearly 6 new chapters smack in the middle of it, but in the end it all ties together in a nice little bow and I'm very proud of it.

Now as for the next in the series, Lily Of The Valley well...let's just say we haven't the faintest idea what we're doing with that one, other than it will likely be amusing as hell because both Cate and Brandr are always good for giggles.

But I'm mourning the loss of Kintaro and Wulfgar. The little Lotus and the big barbarian have made an astounding impression on me and I will miss them so much. Even more than Roman and Aron, I think, because Roman and Aron at least will be revisited in the final book of the series. Wulfgar and Kintaro will, sadly, be gone for good. I want to cry at the thought.

*sighs* Well, I guess it's the epitome of the old saying "All good things must come to an end". I just wish it weren't true. Darn me and my attachment to musi. I'm so used to them staying for always and continuing to give me story ideas. It takes some getting used to, to say goodbye all the time.