A Light Through the Darkness

Just to remind myself:

Apocalypse Cycle
- Get Dark Moon Seasons to publisher
- Write outline for Last Rites
- Record podcast of Not Your Father's Horseman and submit to Podiobooks

Edgewood Trilogy
- Plot outline for trilogy
- Write outline for Descent into Darkness

- Write Snow and turn in to Lilley Press

Pendragon Chronicles
- Finish revising Belladonna Dreams and start shopping it about
- Start outlining Aconite Muse (working title and yes, I know it sucks, but I'm working on a theme here, I think)

- Outline Shanghai
- Outline Blips
- Possibly outline Raindrop Escape

It looks like a lot, but I'd like to get some more books in the outline stage so I can pick them up later. And outlining some of them now will give me the chance to get ahead on the ones that are already contracted.

I don't know if I'm doing NaNo. I'll probably hang out, but I never seem to finish - something ALWAYS comes up. I dunno. If I do, it will most likely be either Shanghai or Aconite. I need to do a LOT more work on Blips before it's ready.

Raindrop has been invading my dreams lately, but although it's a cool concept, I need to do a TON of worldbuilding. I haven't written a high fantasy in YEARS, and my last one was highly beholden (okay, mostly beholden) to Terry Brooks and David Eddings. I want to write Lyssa's story - I just need her to break down and tell me more about her damn world first.

Hmm, looks like I have enough stuff to do one or more challenges at DII. *heads off to look at the forums, whistling...

*editted to add: signed up for the Novel Challenge Level II - Student - 24k and Worldbuilder - Student - 500 words/day. Now I have NO excuses - well, I have lots of excuses...

I just want to say up front that I love my publisher.

I've been having wicked problems with Dark Moon Seasons. Wicked problems.

So today, I caught Gwen on Skype, talked out the problems, and got an extension. New deadline: January 2008.

*wipes sweat from her brow*

Now I can write, without trying to kill myself over this. So here's the project list and deadlines:

- Dark Moon Seasons: New rough draft to editor by Oct. 1
- Finish non-fic chapter on magical creatures - due by August 31
- Finish Blood Sacrifice by Oct. 15th
- Submit proposals for The Edgewood Trilogy to Gwen this fall

Now back to work.

Well, after Sunday, my entire world is going to be packing, packing and did I mention packing? So I discussed with the hubby, and this weekend, I'm hoisting the flag.




Belladonna Dreams will be finished by Monday when I go to work.

The only break I'm really giving myself is tomorrow, when I go to writing group and feed the cats at my parents' house.

Off to write. I'll post counts as I go.

Starting count for the novel is: 74,967