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Re: The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc Part II.
« Reply #465 on: August 19, 2013, 12:26:54 PM »
Cleaning up a short before sending it back to the subbing pits tomorrow, and finished up the 1st draft of a 5K short.  Going back to the WiP this week while I let the short simmer for revision.

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« Reply #466 on: August 19, 2013, 01:08:23 PM »
Good luck, Paynesgrey!

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« Reply #467 on: August 20, 2013, 08:34:23 AM »
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« Reply #468 on: August 21, 2013, 01:11:02 PM »
9,649 words. Almost to the big 10k mark on Lady Raven!

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« Reply #469 on: August 22, 2013, 07:46:42 AM »
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Took a lazy day yesterday, bad The Deposed King, bad-bad!  Anyway back on task today.  I've got to stay focused for my 1st week of september self imposed 1st draft deadline.

Go Lady Raven, kick them in the head!  Remember a bustle is made of whale bone, I'm sure those bones could make a very good club or if ground down to point and edge a very fine improve dagger!  Also a great place for a lady to hide her lock picks, in the hollowed out bones of her bustle!

Who said beauty and battle where incompatible, be the envy of all those tomboys everywhere, watch as they grind their teeth in a most unladylike frustrated rage as they are shown up and smile serenely as all the blushing violets swoon to the floor.

Learn all this and more at Lady Winter's Society for Dazaelling Debutants.  Here you will learn how to snub your rivals, land your beau, and save your country from foreign blackguards and spies all in the time it takes you to run your errends.  You'll even be back home in time to be fashionably late for tea!  And whoever said saving the day was decidedly unladylike obviously never attended Lady Winter's Society for Dazzeling Debutants.  Here we set the trends in both fashion and fashionable combat pettycoats!

Lady Winter's Motto: We can't let the gentlemen have all the fun, can we ladies!  Now arch your backs as I instructed you earlier.

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« Reply #470 on: August 22, 2013, 08:11:52 AM »
Ha! Love it  :D

The book's going well. I've got the plot worked out, as well as how things like magic and technology work. I may go for broke and make it a 7-book series. I know broadly how my protagonist's personal arc is going to develop over that amount of books.

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« Reply #471 on: August 22, 2013, 01:49:43 PM »
And so the adventure begins in earnest! 11,279 words on Lady Raven.

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« Reply #472 on: August 25, 2013, 07:58:11 AM »
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« Reply #473 on: August 25, 2013, 08:36:48 AM »
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« Reply #474 on: August 27, 2013, 01:02:34 PM »
16,122 words on Lady Raven, and I'm gearing up for the start of some intensive promotion for the release of Silent Oath.

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« Reply #475 on: August 28, 2013, 11:56:13 AM »
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« Reply #476 on: August 29, 2013, 03:30:04 AM »
I just had a computer crash and took my laptop in for repair.  My yahoo back up wasn't completing its virus scan so I couldn't download it from there.  And I hadn't backed up to my flash drives in a while.  Thank goodness they were able to get directly into my sata hard drive and get my 85k file of Admiral's Revenge.  so even thought it doesn't count as forward progress, making sure you have weeks of work in hand is lots better than a big fat negative number!



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« Reply #477 on: August 30, 2013, 09:44:42 PM »
Glad you were able to salvage your work!  Dropbox + Scrivener is your friend.  Scrivener backs up every 5 seconds and you can set it to save straight to Dropbox.  Had a power outage a week or so ago that would have cost me a couple thousand words and a heap of revisions/corrections, but all I had to do was open the archived file in dropbox. 

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« Reply #478 on: August 31, 2013, 08:16:29 AM »
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« Reply #479 on: September 01, 2013, 05:31:19 PM »
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