A Light Through the Darkness

Metrics for Dark Moon Seasons

Starting Count: 6490
Ending Count: 7363

Starting Line: -But would she help me?- he wondered, looking at the pictures of his younger half-sister that still dotted the room, since he hadn't bothered to redecorate when he bought the house.

Ending Line: Tony cleared his throat. "Hi little sister," he said finally and heard her gasp. "How's it going?"

Metrics for Broken Wings

Starting Count: 528
Ending Count: 1408

Very sleepy now. But good counts! I am happy.

And before I forget - Happy Birthday, Gwen!!!!

Considering the email I got earlier today, I've got some modified goals for today.

1. Five pages of Ep. 1 of Broken Wings
2. 1k on Blood Sacrifice
3. 5k on Dark Moon Seasons

It's a lot, but I have all day to do it, and no one around to bug me. If I'm feeling especially creative, I might try and finish Wings tonight, but I'm starting with Seasons. Updates later today.

Whew! I got a lot of words done!

Not as many as I wanted, of course, but a lot, nonetheless. Here's all the gory details:

Belladonna Dreams

Word Goal for the day: 750 - made 1586

Starting line: “Good question. And Claire doesn’t want me anywhere near it.” I took a sip of soda. “She was very clear about that.”

Ending line: A nurse hurried by me, and it was almost as if I could see the blood rushing through her skin, which got less transparent the farther she went.

Darling: No birds chirped, and even in the midst of a bright, warm late autumn afternoon, cold shadows lay heavy over the entire clearing. Dark trees hunched over pieces of broken wall, glowering natural gargoyles. I had wondered, briefly, whether it had been this depressing when it was operational.

Then I had Changed, and so had the entire world.

38,369 / 100,000 (38.4%)

Broken Wings - Donovan's character sheet finished.

Race the Ninja! (due 1/22/07)

10,718 / 12,000 (89.3%)

Race mimerki! (due 2/10/07)

2,576 / 20,000 (12.9%)

novel_in_90 (due 4/6/07)

12,182 / 67,500 (18.0%)

And just because, here's January's total:

17,888 / 50,000 (35.8%)

And the YTD total:

17,888 / 600,000 (3.0%)

Insanity beckons, and off I go!

Because it's still tonight until I go to bed, dammit! :p

Belladonna Dreams

36,461 / 100,000 (36.5%)

Word Goal for the day: 750 - made 872

Starting line: Something wasn’t right.

Ending line: And she vanished.

Darling: Icy fingers suddenly wrapped around my throat, and Ellen dragged me back up, anger blazing in her eyes. “Don’t tell me what to do in my house, Daywalker” she hissed, and phantom spittle hit my face, burning like freezing acid rain.

Deaths: Nope.

Good Things: Well, now we know where Lyris is, supposedly.

Bad Things: Where Lyris is. And Sapph got choked.

***

I also finished Ajax's character for Wings. All I need to do is finish Donovan's, and then I should be able to finish the outline for the first episode. This comic is hard! I didn't realize how hard scriptwriting is. :p

Well, off to bed now. No Sleeping Beauty research - might do that tomorrow night, if work is dead.

So today, argus7hills and I went to Baronial Birthday. What fun! dorio was there, with his daughters, as well as Baron Harold, Baroness Aine, Clare (whose LJ name I've forgotten *sigh*) and some new people. We hung out on the porch (I got 3.75 favors done for Baronessa Maria, who needs them!) most of the day - it was gloriously sunny and cool, a perfect fall day. Then a yummy feast (Donica did a FABU job, and there was only one dish I couldn't eat. Out of THREE courses!), and then dancing. I even got to dance with my hubby! He's such a good dancer. It was a great day.

Of course, got a speeding ticket on the way home *sigh*, but the cop was nice and only wrote that I was going 15 miles over the speed limit, and not the 19 I was clocked at. So only $75, but still. Well, I got OT this week. :p

Tonight and tomorrow are all about getting stuff done. I finally got the money to scarlettarcher for the website: now I just have to get her content. *grin* Well, that I can do!! Also need to do some household chores, so here's the To-Do list for the rest of the weekend:

1. Finish the summaries for June for Horseman
2. LAUNDRY!!!
3. Grocery shopping
4. Cooking dinner (garlic-roasted chicken - yummy!)
5. Website content to scarlettarcher
6. Ajax and Basil character sheets for Wings
7. At least 5k on Seasons
8. Get the insert in my blue/white dress stitched in (while I'm at the laundrymat)
9. Swim

So that's the agenda for the rest of the weekend. Wish me luck!

Oh yeah - gotta call Mom in there too, and remind her about shopping on Tuesday.

ETA 1: Got a bunch done. Chicken and potatoes are in the oven, dress is partially sewn (hmm, what will Val be working on in between calls this week? Can we say, dress?), and I'm starting on website content. More later.

A lot.

However, now that I'm doing feeling sorry for myself, it's time to do some work.

To Do Tonight:

- balance checkbook
- pay bills
- tweak budget for the two bills that just came up
- character sheet for Wings
- 1k on Seasons

***

So, I had another idea attack me the other day, and the more I think about it, the more I really want to write it. It's "Pretty Woman" meets "Amityville Horror," with bits of "Dark Angel" and "Buffy" thrown in.

Doesn't that sound cool?

***

Got my first eBay purchase in the mail! It's "The DC Guide to Writing Comics" by Danny O'Neill. It's AMAZING - and full of comics. :D I'm getting very excited by this. Really. But Danny has a bunch of cautions about rushing the comic, and I know myself enough to know that if I short myself on the character/story development, I'll end up doing a MAJOR rewrite. So, despite the fact that my artist is CHOMPING at the bit to get moving, I'm going to keep doing the prewriting work I know needs to be done.

***

Also need to start working on two more outlines: Descent into Darkness and Last Rites. I do not want myself written into a corner.

I had a blast today with Donna.

Went and saw Monster House and POTC: Dead Man's Chest. Then came home and The Mummy was on TBS! One of my ALL-TIME fav movies.

Monster House was cool, but DAMN! Not a kid's movie. I don't care that the rating was PG - it wasn't a kid's movie.

POTC rocked, of course. Love Johnny Depp as Cap'n Jack. And I thought Davy Jones rocked, although Donna thought his voice was a bit whiney. And no, I don't think it was a cliffhanger - more of a "Really? We can do that?" And no spoilers. :)

I think I might want to see Invincible. Odd, I don't like football, but I'm starting to like football movies (love The Replacements). Then again, Mark Wahlberg is one of my favorite actors too. We'll see.

Tonight and tomorrow are laundry and computer. Tonight is the final push on editing TOD. Tomorrow is all about Wings character development and Seasons outline.

Okay. Here's the official list:

To Do Before GNEW:

1. Finish argus7hills’s new tabard
2. Buy steaks and marinate them in the roasted garlic sauce
3. Trim new dancing caftan
4. Fix pink dancing pants
5. Make coin dancing scarf
6. Buy dowels for the banners
7. Finish freya47’s book cover
8. Start sewing my banner
9. Get Nedra’s camp stove
10. Fix my fencing doublet


No problems. :D

Writing goals this week:

1. 1k per night on Seasons
2. 1 chapter edited per night on the vampire novel
3. If I can, 2 character sketches done in Wings

We'll see.

Bleah. I think I'm going to have to break down and go to the damn doctors, so I can finally kick this obnoxious...whatever it is. I'm hot and cold today, probably running a fever, and hoping to get to work.

So what am I doing? Writing, of course. :p

Here's the updated year-to-date word count:

13,337 / 1,000,000 (1.3%)

I'm chugging along - got the first real character done on Broken Wings the other day. Didn't write yesterday - pulled a 12-hour shift and then came home and slept because I felt awful.

Still feel awful. But I hate missing work.

At least I have sick days...and I have until 3:30 to decide if I'm coming in or not.

*sigh* We'll see in an hour or so...

Yup. But first, a big HUZZAH! to watermelontail for finishing his novel!!! Yay!!!!

(Sorry, little brother, just had to get that out. I'm so proud of you!)

Now, onto the updates.

First, the yearly goal (updated properly, this time - I'm not going for a billion words! Maybe in 10 years...)

5,616 / 1,000,000 (0.6%)

I got some more done on Belladonna Dreams - I'm hoping to finish the rough draft this weekend:

59,718 / 80,000 (74.6%)

Yes, I'm going to end up being short, probably. Then again, I write short, so I'm not that worried about it.

I also started to work (finally!) on the character sketches for Broken Wings. Started with the top - Empress Ceyla. Who's becoming quite the character. This is going to be wicked fun!!! No word meter for this, because I'm only doing sketches, but I got 251 words done on that.

Now back to writing. And then, maybe tomorrow or Monday, I'm going to start playing with updating my site. Not the fun one. The real one. *shudder*