Mist and Shadows

I managed to get some writing done this week. Not a lot, but its a start compared to previous weeks. I also started getting back into posting on this site again. After such a long break it feels good to be making progress again, and I am positive about what is to come.

I hope to soon have the four short stories I have been working on finished off, at least to the best that I can make them for now. Once that is done I have plans for them. More on that later.

Got a few errands to carry out now, but after that back into the writing.

Been a couple of weeks since an update – bad me.  Once more very little progress to be noted in actual writing terms, but I have been doign some planning, so it hasn’t been totally devoid of anything.

But enough is enough.  It has been about a month since the rough draft of Winter Wolves was completed and I have very little to show since then.  Time to get stuck back into it

I am, for the next little while at least, going to be working on some short stories.  I have four that need tidying up and ideas for a bunch more.  I want to get them done and out there as a kind of background introduction to the world of the novels, as well as to hopefully attract some interest.

I also want to try and daily add to this blog with post of general interest (at least to me).  That is another aspect I have slacked off from.

Once more I have to report a complete lack of work this last week.  It is abysmal and depressing.  Must snap out of this rut and get back to work.

Hurm.

Lets forget last week.  And the lateness of this post.

Got the rough draft finished, as mentioned before, but since then…nada.  Easter braek, parents visiting, other stuff just all seemed to conspire with general laziness.

Not that I haven’t been thinking about the story – I’ve a few plot changes to do in the rewrite – just need to start it now.

I am this close to finishing the rought draft of Winter Wolves.  The final battle has been fought, the villain vanquished and all that remains is a couple fo scenes to tie ends up, for farewells and reunions.

It may even be completed today.

Last week tallied in at just a touch over 7000 words, and the word count for the rough draft of Winter Wolves now stands at 54K.

Actually having the draft complete will be something of an event.  I am not used to actually ending stories, normally simply moving on to something new and leaving them unfinished.

I’ve just put the first three chapters, some 17K words, up on the authonomy site. For those who don’t know of it, it is a site run by Harper Collins where people display there novels for others to review and at the end of each month, HC takes the top 5 and sends them to an editorial board to review.

Which isn’t the real reason I put it up (though I wouldn’t say no if it ever came up.)  It is more to get some feedback on what has been done to date.

Reading it on the site, as opposed to just in Word, is certainly a change.  It almost appears decent, barring some typos and spelling errors that need fixing.

It can be seen at this page.

A quarter of the way through the year already – where does time go.

Last week was rather poor, with slightly less than 5000 words written, well short of what I’d like. Also, despite plans to finish the rough draft, I am still three chapters short. This week it must be done…

I did, however, start on a scene that needs to be inserted in one of the earlier chapters somewhere. It relates to the main ‘villain’ of the story and helps flesh him out, show where he is coming from. He isn’t an evil man, just on the opposing side to the main characters and I wanted to show that he wasn’t evil, just the victim of traumatic events that had driven him onto a dangerous, obsessive path.

Another fairly decent week of work, with around 8600 words done. Could have been more but for a weekend taken up with other events.

All of this was done on Winter Wolves and definite progress is being made now – I have passed 42,000 words and are part of the way through chapter sixteen. By this time next week I hope to have completed the rough draft and then comes the fun part – the rewrite and expanding it out to a more decent length.

Also started was my other ‘blog’ – Zombie Blogger. Just a bit of fun to be having writing for it when I have a few moments to spare.