Long, Long Absence

I can’t believe it’s been so long since I stopped blogging. Wow… 9 months! I could even have made a whole new person in that time! I wish I could say I’ve been away doing something exciting like travelling the world, getting a job at the animal park or, even better, getting published, but unfortunately I’ve just been living my boringly normal life. I’ve done a bit of writing – half of a child’s book and planning for yet another new fantasy series – but still no finish lines crossed.

But hopefully this is going to help me get one there: Holly Lisle’s Write a Book With Me.

It’s a great idea of Holly’s and has helped me get writing and also has got me back here. I’ve been playing along for the last three days and am going to be recording my progress so far:

Wed 1st July = 1,285
Thur 2nd July = 465
Fri 3rd July = 181
Total so far = 1931

I know the totals have gone down, but yesterday I worked over my lunch and again for a couple of hours last night on getting the planning and files for the new fantasy series – I’ll call it Mist Fantasy Novel for now as I have no idea about title yet – onto a TiddyWiki file. The planning was getting a bit crazy with over 40 different files and I wasn’t sure where it was all headed and the TiddlyWiki seemed like a great way to collate it all. It worked well yesterday as I got all my ‘character’ and ‘draft’ folders transferred and linked their relationships as they stand now. I also discovered a character I’d forgotten about who I think will be quite entertaining to write about and hopefully for people to read about one day.

Right now I’ve got some dogs watching me reproachfully wondering why I’m sitting here writing when plainly I should be out taking them for a nice long walk so I should obey the little beasts and take them out. After that hopefully I’ll be able to get some of the world building entries up and link them.

While I’m doing the planning for MFN I’m going to do my writing for the children’s horsey book, which stands at about 20k so far. That way I’ll be able to keep my writing fresh and hopefully get one book over the finish line! Although now I’m thinking maybe a TiddlyWiki for the horse book might be helpful too… Ack, no – it’s time to be bold. I have the story planned – I’ll get the first draft done then I can do a TiddlyWiki for the revisions. I have to write the words ‘The End’ one day!

Good luck for everyone else having a go at this and thanks to Holly for coming up with the idea.