Didn’t post yesterday. Got to 13,043 words on Day 4.

Today was my long day at school. I usually get onto campus about 8 a.m., and I don’t leave campus ’til about 8, 8:30. Was lucky enough to have a class canceled and managed to get in about 1,500 words, and then just before midnight, I knocked out close to 900 words.

SO, today’s total was 2,324 words. My overall total right now is 15,367.

Hope to get to 17,500 words tomorrow.

The cool thing right now is I came up with a rather exciting (for me anyway, lol) way to develop the story, so now there is no worrying about writing in order or fingering out the whole story. Right now, I’m writing pieces as they come.

Thinking about making the story interactive, so my creativity is “webbing out” right now, and whatever it links up to in reference to this story, I’m tagging it, writing it, and syncing up to the next thread of the story.

Exciting times, I say. Exciting times.

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It’s been a VERY long time since I’ve been over here.

And school is the time-sucking culprit!

I’ve been busy with school and reading and research…and now am about to get into the part of the semester where papers have to be written, so it will get even more crazy.

HOWEVER, I do plan to work on a NaNoWriMo project for November. I’ve participated for the last four years and have “won” each year, and it felt wrong to at least not try to write something this month.

This is a challenge for me on several fronts:

1. Usually, I outline my NaNoWriMo projects. I’m going into this completely cold with a title, a character name, and fuzzy thoughts on what the story is about.
2. I’m in school, and school is like a full-time job plus double-overtime. It’s going to be rough.
3. I haven’t written anything creatively in nearly three months. A record for me, so I’m very rusty.

Because of this, my goal is to do a NaNo-Lite. No, this doesn’t actually exist. As we all know, NaNo has people attempting to write 50,000 words in 30 days. I’m going for 30,000 words in 30 days. Still a lot of words for a woman with barely enough time to do everything else in her life, but I think I really do need this so that I can feel – at least mentally – that I’m still creative.

I’ll be posting throughout the month, giving you guys updates on my writing challenges, of which I’m sure there will be at least ONE.

For now, I’ll leave you with my title: Educating Sophia.

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Death at the Double Inkwell is my debut solo project set to be released in June 2010 by Lady Leo Publishing, but of course, you can head to LLP and PRE-ORDER NOW for 15% off the $6.99 cover price!

Here’s the book descrip:

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From now until December, every podcast of the Once Upon a Time series will showcase the first five to ten pages of a novel I’ve written.

Up FIRST is To Catch a Cheat.

Cheater Investigator Carter Devlin, co-owner of F.A.C.E. (Finding All Cheaters Enterprises) lives by two rules: 1) all cheaters must be exposed and punished, and 2) never, ever fall in love. Playing patsy to her mother’s numerous infidelities as a child helps Carter keep #1 in check. Being assigned to Cheater Number 5302, Kenneth Stevenson, a man with George Clooney looks may lead Carter to break #2.

Carter finds herself falling in heat with Kenneth despite the facts that he’s a possible cheater and his wife, a vocal client during the investigation, happens to look eerily like her. When the investigation leads Carter to believe the wife is the actual cheater, she lets her inhibitions with Kenneth go, only to learn that her best friend and F.A.C.E. co-owner Vince Clark may be in love with her. As she battles her newfound heart over Vince and Kenneth, Carter has to keep one eye on Kenneth’s wife for as the saying goes, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Head to CLG-E’s podcast site now to enjoy a taste of Carter!

CLG Entertainment Podcast Site ~ [LINK]

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A few months ago, I learned my novel, Death at the Double Inkwell, would be published in 2010 by Lady Leo Publishing.  Today, was asked to submit some material like my bio and dedications and learned that I’ll begin edits in September.

This is my solo debut project, so I am STOKED,

More to come as I get more to share!

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Yep. I’m already looking beyond November 30.

I knew my story, The Fixer, would be longer than 50k.  I just didn’t know how much longer.  Now that I’ve passed the 50k mark, I’ve checked out my outline, and I realize I’m about 55/60% done the outline, so this is going to be a pretty big book.  My biggest book to date was about 96,000 words.  I’m being conservative to say that this one will be 95,000.  I’m really thinking closer to 100k – maybe a wee bit over that.

Right under the SUBSCRIBE HERE button on the right hand side, you will see my baby word meter and a short logline for The Fixer.  Every day after NaNo, I will update that, and every Monday, I will have a new update blog post about the book, my successes and failures in writing that week, and show you this little guy:

His mood will reflect mine, and right now, I’m very logical and calm, LOL

SO, for the next six days, I will continue to share my daily travails and writing updates, but once December 1 rolls around, my posts will be made weekly, every Monday until this baby is fin.

If you are working on your NaNo project through this month, leave a comment and let me know…leave an url where you might be updating and blogging about the writing…would love to check you out!

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