Convoy metrics

Starting Count: 0

Ending Count: 1008

Total Words: 1008

Starting Line:

“It’s an easy enough job.”

Ending Line:

He was as good as his word. Rose was napping when he came back in, curled up in the overstuffed chair in front of the dying fire, but the sound of his scales shushing along the tiled floor brought her back to full wakefulness.

Darling:

Her right hand clenched as she fought to stay still, not cover the tattoo he stared at so intently. The black rose covered her entire right cheek and part of her eyelid, the stem trailing down her neck and into the collar of her black shirt. She’d actually pulled her hair back today, so the tattoo was even more visible than normal.

Originally published at The words of Valerie Griswold-Ford. You can comment here or there.

Sunday morning, and life is good.

It IS good!

I’m thinking I should start inserting some graphics or something into these posts, so they aren’t all text, but sadly, I’m a writer, not a graphic designer.  We’ll see.

I got 1k written last night!  I never get 1k written in a night!  I’m so excited!  Today’s goal is a NaNo day: 1667.  (actually, it’s more than that, it’s the 5k I need to finish the story to turn in, but I’m trying for NaNo days now, so I can be in the groove for November)  I’m really enjoying the book The Busy Writer’s One-Hour Plot by Marg McAlister – it took me more than an hour (because I didn’t set a timer – bad me!) but I got the plot hammered out for Convoy and then wrote the first 1k in about 90 minutes.  For a slow writer like me, that’s amazing!  I’m so using this system from now on!

Once I finish Convoy and turn it in, I have to start working on prepping for NaNo.  The NaNo project this year is the 2nd Advent story (yay, more Schrodinger!) and I have to get it plotted out very soon, because I have to get the outline to the other folks who are helping me!  Yes, there will be OTHER STORIES!!!  (Sorry for the exclamation points.  I’m very excited this morning!)

Now, though, I have finished my morning pages, so it’s time to take the laptop into the kitchen and start catching up on podcasts while I make breakfast, do dishes, clean up and cook for the week.

 

Originally published at The words of Valerie Griswold-Ford. You can comment here or there.