The end. At last!

Yes, I did it.  I finished the vampire book.  There’s a tab, you may notice, at the top of this page, entitled “Interlude”, where you can read the full thing.  I realize I will have to rewrite large sections of it, since I’m not very happy with the opening and I just realized that there’s [...]

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The worst dogs in the entire world

My sister was in town last night and this morning, and we went shopping.  Even though it’s Buy Nothing Day.  (Well, neither of us actually BOUGHT anything, so I guess we managed to keep to the letter of the day if not the spirit.  I was kind of tempted by a furry white hat in [...]

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Aha!

I “found” about 2000 words that I hadn’t included in my word count total. Serves me right for writing on two different computers and making each day a separate file. So I’m over 42000 words now. Getting to 50000 by Sunday? Piece of cake.
* Here is a massive installment – yesterday [...]

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Writer’s block? Mahler helps.

So does Shostakovitch. I listened to some symphonies today when I was writing, and it came much more easily than it did yesterday. Weird.
* It’s all coming together now – I will shortly return to my usual aimless blogging style, but bear with me until Sunday*
Interlude: A detective story
It was a cold night, [...]

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28036 and counting

It’s like I’m gouging the words out with a pickaxe. Time for Nyquil and bed, I think.
*It’s starting to ramp up for the climax. Hopefully tomorrow morning I’ll get to the really fun part.*
I could see at once that the kid needed watching – the little dark-haired one, the one I’d watched go [...]

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Next installment

I have about 10,000 words to go before the climax…I now know how I’m going to draw the whole thing together and make it a devastating ending. It’s tempting to just skip to the end now, but I should make sure it’s fully fleshed out.
There may be another installment later tonight. I’m feeling [...]

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Another vampire update

Another installment – this is from last night. See if you can tell when I took Nyquil.

*I don’t know what’s up with the fonts, but I can’t seem to change them*
“Well, you know best, I guess,” Justin said. He sounded unconvinced. “They’re not, like Christian vampires or something, are they?”
“You are [...]

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New music: Wordcount goal MET!

Finally.  5003 words today!
And I’ve taken some Nyquil, so I’m out.
*Only 30000 to go!*
“That,” I said coldly, “Is the worst story ever,”
“What?” Justin said as he put down his manuscript and looked at me, hurt. “But it’s about you!”
“I know,” I said. “And it’s the stupidest possible reading of the situation.”
“But it’s the [...]

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New music: Word count goal exceeded!

Instead of 1500 words in an hour, I did 2769 in an hour and a half!
* Warning: this is really different from the rest of the book so far. If you haven’t read anything else of it yet, I suggest you click on the “Nanowrimo08″ category and start at the beginning. Or at [...]

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New music needs a new title: Chapter 10, I think

I will be posting as I go today.  Next goal: 1500 more words by 5:00.
*I don’t know if there’s enough plot in this thing for 50,000 words, but I’m sure as hell going to find out*
Sweet little thing. She was a sweet little thing. Underneath the bravado, she was just a little girl [...]

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