Untitled

1.

I revised The Molting.

It is now in the hands of the Great and Terrible @NadiaLee.

2.

Contemplating starting something new.

Maybe the companion novel to Hurricane Forever.

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

I have discovered that I do actually have a short story and not a novella in The Molting.

Will revise.

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

Kaz’s Summer Camp #8:

I have officially killed my short story.

I'm working on rousing political speeches for the characters.

I'm supposed to be working on a synopsis for something or other next month but I haven't a clue what. Maybe I should have put more thought into goals...

2.

I have slain my second oni, and started working on a third. Miss Metta is going down!

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

I have really really killed The Molting.

Until I make like a necromancer (which I, sadly, have eliminated from The Eternity Project YET AGAIN) and bring it back to life.

2.

I desperately want to revise Hurricane Forever, but luckily (unluckily?) for me, I don’t actually have access to a copy. This should depress me more, BUT I think I have found my blogging mojo over on my other blog.

This is a good thing as I’ve been trying to get going on that for about forever now.

3.

I ought to take pictures of the fabulous Miss Metta.

I’m thinking Saturday is a good day. Then my goal for August can be to stitch all the way down to the bottom so I can make sure that I have enough fabric. Amongst other things.

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

I have had an epiphany.

Why the hell am I messing about with The Molting? It’s a ‘practice’ short story, I get that, but it’s not really what I want to write.

2.

Doesn’t mean that I should start revising Hurricane Forever right away, but it does mean I’ll probably spend all of August contemplating the worldbuilding I need to do for HF and my magnum opus.

3.

I have slain the first of the Oni.

Miss Metta’s progress is astonishing indeed.

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

I am recovering from a monstrous bout of flu.

The kind that you think you’re on the mend from, and then you go up two flights of stairs and feel like you are DYING.

I couldn’t even move a light wooden stool up from the ground floor to my bedroom – which is on the first floor.

2.

The Molting is revolting.

And if it’s not crying revolution, I am.

3.

I didn’t even manage to stitch on Wednesday. I slept for 24 hours straight, waking only to eat and take my pills – I’d probably have skipped eating except that I was supposed to eat something before I took the meds.

4.

Today, I am doing stash inventory.

What scares me is that what’s in my inventory? Doesn’t even include stuff that’s ‘kitted up’ (by that, I mean I have everything I need to start and finish the project) or what’s still on the slow boat from the UK.

And I’m pretty sure I’ve already achieved SABLE here.

Perhaps if it’s not raining tomorrow, and I have discovered in my possession an object called a Camera, I shall have provide evidence.

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

Kaz’s Summer Camp Week #7:

Still NOT done.

Gah. This is going to be the short story that will haunt me for the rest of my writerly life.

And if I’m not done on July 31^st, I think I’m going to junk this.

2.

I’m pretty sure I’m coming down with something.

Apparently, a stitch a day doesn’t keep the doctor away.

But Miss Metta is lovely, thank you very much.

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

OMG.

I totally forgot about my Thursday deadline.

But clearly, I didn’t make it.

I think this version is better, however.

Having said that, if I don’t finish this by August 15^th, I may send it to Nadia anyway.

God help the poor woman if that’s what I do.

2.

But my needlework proceeds apace.

There has been much progress on Miss Metta.

3.

I’ve also made 2 batches of English Muffins from Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice, neither of which were successful.

They were good buns. But they weren’t English Muffins.

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

Kaz’s Summer Camp Week #6:

I have no idea how I’m going to make my deadline for Thursday. Brian_Ohio is probably going to come and kick my ass.

I am revising from the beginning again. It is both better and not better.

I did also make plans for Nadia to snatch my manuscript out of my hands come August 16^th post-revisions, however, so I better get cracking. She is the Queen of Evil and she is awesomely fearsome.

On the other hand, I now have necromancers in the other world I am building. That’s maybe the only bright spot in Week #6 for me.

2.

Re: necromancers

I guess I am getting my other goal for July done too. Except that now I have to fix Hurricane Forever too.

3.

Celtic Leaves is stitching up beautifully! J

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

I have fixed a key hole in my magnum opus.

I also now have Necromancers of my very own. I think. I hope. Things could still change. Not sure how I can integrate the necromancers in.

2.

The Molting…is revolting.

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

Kaz’s Summer’s Camp Week #5:

I’m still stuck.

It’s like I’ve suddenly lost all inspiration to work on my short story – I think it may well have returned to being a short story because I fixed the middle.

The truth is, I don’t need to write this short story any more, and that’s maybe a big part of the problem. I’m writing it to test-run a few things for my magnum opus. It’s tested, and found wanting because it is a highly imperfect proxy for my magnum opus. I need another test story but I don’t have one at the moment.

The other thing is that it is also a rather open-ended tale. I don’t know how to deal with that yet. I thought I did, but I don’t. And since I still have more than a week…

2.

In other news, Emily has a job. Or rather, Emily still has a job.

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

I have seven thousands words and a bit more.

But more importantly, I have progression of story.

2.

Also, I think I’m beginning to really nail the voice and style of the fairytale bits, thanks to Nadia who gave me some very good advice.

3.

Tomorrow, I have a wedding to attend and a new section on The Molting to begin.

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

I have the wrong beginning.

It is the right beginning if this was meant to be a romance novella. Not so much if this is a fantasy novella.

Of course, it may be that this is a romance and not a fantasy. In which case I’m going to take my muse* out and shoot her.

2.

I have a commitment finish The Molting on July 15^th. I suspect Brian_ohio is going to kick my ass on that day because I can’t see how I’m going to complete this on deadline.

I’m not sure I’ll get any writing done until Monday, for one thing.

I’m away next week Thursday-Sunday, and I’m not taking my laptop – the idea that I’ll get anything done if I do is frankly, ridiculous.

*If I had a muse, that is.

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

I have cut some more.

I must stop letting my ideas get in the way of my narrative.* I let this happen too often and it wastes too much time that I could otherwise spend actually writing.

2.

Yesterday, I ambitiously told brian_ohio that I was planning to finish my novella on July 15^th, and start revisions for it on August 1^st.

Now I actually have to do it.

Incidentally, he wrote a hilarious account of how Kaz’s Summer Camp is going, and you can read it here. It comes with Pictures!

* Courtesy of a David Mitchell interview I read today.

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

Kaz’s Summer Camp Week #4:

My short story has rapidly expanded to novella length. This will be the first of my many goal revisions. Sigh.

I wrote 3791 words. It would have been 4k, but I junked the last scene because it was not taking me anywhere.

2.

Haven’t written today. Junked that scene. Must do better tomorrow.

3.

Finished cousin’s wedding sampler. One down, and one more to go.

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

I suspect plotting is not as good for my writing as I’d like it to be.

I’m working on The Molting – I may change this to The Revolting Story just because – and I’ve realised that the one thing that’s utterly absent from my Hurricane Forever draft is what people are thinking.

I have what they say, what they do. I don’t have the whys, and I don’t have the ‘how they get theres.’

2.

It worries me. Oh I’ve always had scenes that were just dialogue and nothing else.

But I’m pretty sure that the Hurricane Forever draft is nearly 50k of dialogue and nothing else.

3.

Nadia was telling me about book journals the other day.

The idea is that you write a few lines about what you’re working on each day. Ideas you have for the next few scenes. Key things that you are currently working on in  the novel. Stuff like that .

I wasn’t going to do one for The Molting. I planned to trial this with my next novel – not being keen to try this again so soon after the recent failure of January-in-February with journaling. But I felt the urge, and so, why not? If I don’t keep up, that’s okay too. It’s more important that I keep up with my story, after all.

If the only time I journal is today, well, at least I discovered that The Molting is sooperman’s story more than it is sooperwoman’s.

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

I have had enough local anesthesia and painkillers today to fell an elephant. Well, at least a baby elephant – I am a smaller than average human being.

I also now have to have gum surgery sometime in the near future, after which I will be able to say that I’ve had every kind of non-immediately-life-threatening (maybe non-life-threatening too) problem requiring some kind of dental treatment.

Bah.

2.

My mama soothed my pains with 2 new pairs of shoes.

Life is better.

3.

I have decided to rename The Molting to Molting the Revolting* in honor of a certain animal in it.

I am blaming my lack of progress today to the painkillers and anesthesia – see above – but the truth is I am suffering second-day jitters. This is after the initial euphoria of ‘OMG, something new!!!!’and just before ‘OMG, I’m in over my head!!!!’

*I’m kidding, but it does have a certain ring, don’t you think?

Posted via email from The Eternity Project

Untitled

1.

Kaz’s Summer Camp Week #3:

I finished my draft zero of Hurricane Forever – not the real title FYI – yesterday.

It is an awful draft. I’m so desperate to fix it that I sent it to two kind souls – Maili and Liz – who can store a copy so I can temporarily delete it off my hard drive. If they decide to peek, it’ll probably make their eyes bleed.

Hmm… Not sure if it’s a good idea to let people have blackmail material. But it is done.

Today, I started the short story, The Molting, that I was planning to write next month. I’m now hoping to finish it by 2^nd of July, as there’ll be wedding madness (thankfully not mine) from 3^rd-11^th of June, entailing flights and gowns and stuff.

2.

Extract:

“You are very difficult, you know.”

“Coming from you? Who hired me to manage you so other people would find you easier to deal with?” 

His mouth dropped open. “What did you just say?”

3.

I already had a draft of the first section – so I’m now just revising what I had as I go along. That’s about 1300 words of revisions, and I’m about ready to take the leap into new material.

I only have new material because I had an epiphany this morning. But I’m pretty sure it can carry me through to the end in one draft, so that’s okay.

4.

I talked to Elise Matthesen, who has kindly given me permission to use some of her beautiful work in The Molting.

I had an epiphany about it. It entails tossing out all the worldbuilding I did for it, but that’s okay.

I suspect it’s not quite fantasy any more though. Or SF, which might be an issue as I was going to use to ‘audition’ OWW.

Posted via email from The Eternity Project