Thistledown Update: Sick but Writing!

Hey all!!

It sucks to be sick. And I mean the hacking up a lung type of sick not just some sniffles. I won't be able to do much with anyone this Christmas because I don't want to give this to anyone, especially the man's mother who's fighting cancer. So I'll probably be alone Christmas morning, though I am going to my parents and my friend's house to swap gifts and eat some food today. I just can't touch anything.

I really wasn't feeling up to writing the past few days but I sat down last night and wrote all of chapter 15 in about two hours! Whoot!! Now I only have two more chapters to go and Thistledown will be ready for review and editing.

I got online to pubit! and started the sign up process to publish a book! So exciting! This is going to be so satisfying when I finally get something published. I've been waiting far too long for this as I have a lot of stories either half done or finished but in script format. I haven't decided yet if I'll just jump into Thistletorn, the second book for Thistle Finley, or if I'll wrap up another story and get it published. I may just write Thistletorn and then write the Welkinbane or another story on the side. Ehhh we'll see how it goes at any rate.

But yes! Counting down the chapters! :D
And a Happy Christmas to all!! May you get loads of gifts and have a blast with your loved ones!!

~The Sick yet Hopeful

Thistledown Update: Chapter 14 Complete! + Deadline!

WHOOT! So happy to be able to say I have chapter 14 wrapped up and ready! All I need now is some gumption worked up to plow through chapter 15.

14 & 15, also known as the twins of evil, are making my life difficult. Mainly because I've written some stuff in other chapters that were originally going to be in the twins of evil or got confused between the two vicious little blokes. At least I know what I'll do for 15 as I ended up making some personal compromises in order to keep the two chapters separate instead of merging them into one big fugly of a chapter.

All in all, I'm glad 14 is done, it was lip-curling agony to plow through.


On another note! I have given myself deadlines and I am determined to see them through. I'm going to list them here for you to see so that way if I don't make it, I'll know that the world knows and I will crawl to my corner of shame and cry bitter tears of fail.

Sat. Dec. 29th...............Last day of writing
Sun. Jan. 6th.................Last day for proofreading
Sun. Jan. 13th...............Last day for editing
Sun. Jan. 27th...............Last day to format
Thur. Jan. 31st..............Project MUST be finalized

12:00am Pacific Time Fri. Feb. 1st..........................PUBLISH THISTLEDOWN via Smashwords

SO! Expect to see Thistledown available on every available format Smashwords supports on February 1st! It shall be there....it shall be there....

Reading Blog!!!!

Just so you all know, I started a reading blog to keep up with all of the books I've been reading and writing reviews. This blog had originally been for that purpose but slowly got eaten by the NaNo beast and became a writing blog instead.....

SO! I've created a blog just for my little bookiewookies [Thinking of a wookie made of books]. I have a link to it on the right bar but you can also find it HERE. I've taken off my reading list here on my writing blog and have instead plopped it onto my reading blog, just to keep things copasetic. It will be updated regularly and have a corresponding review for each new book I finish. BLAGH. I feel weird. Damn you vertigo, damn you.

~The Dizzy

Update: Bit by bit...

So, I've actually managed to get a little bit of writing done [though not much due to work] despite a very irritating writing block. I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing with chapter 14, although it's sort of turning into a lecture/let's explain the crazy chapter to catch both the reader and Thistle up on everything. I've been having an argument with myself about what should be left in and what should be kept for another book so it's been a relatively slow process getting chapter 14 done. I feel like after I get this one done, the rest of the chapters are going to just fly by since they are laid out right and are pretty straight forward.

I hate to whine, but I feel so far behind and all I can seem to manage is like 300-600 words per every other day instead of 1,500-3,000 words per day like I was last month. Ah well, guess it's just part of the process and all. At least I didn't just stop. I know if I do that I won't pick the story back up for about a year. I keep telling myself to keep going, that February 1st is my deadline to e-publish and that I only have 3.5 chapters left to crank out. UGH. I'm a lazy bastard. Yes, yes I am.

Well, until I actually have something productive to tell you, I bid you adieu.

~The Lazy

Thistledown Sample Chapter Available on Wattpad!

Hey All!

So the past week has been pretty slow in terms of writing. I did print out a hard copy of what I had so far for Thistledown, but had it snatched from my claws by my voracious mother. I love her dearly, but eegads woman! I need to edit it first before it's worthy of consumption!

Despite all of my protestations, she still managed to read it and do a first rough edit of it for me. I've now started editing it myself, though honestly I feel weird about not being the first person to rip my story a new one. I did do a cursory once over of the first chapter and decided it was okay enough to publish as a sample chapter on Wattpad. I'd had the book up for about two minutes and I already had 14 reads! I'm so excited! I honestly have to give all of the credit to the cover art and Katherine C. Smith for doing such a good job.

I'm probably a little too excited by such news, but what can I say? I'm a noob at this sort of thing. And I am busting butt on editing and wrapping up the story [though not as hardcore as when it was NaNo time...] February is my deadline! FEBRUARY!! The word that makes me contort my face in order to say it!

Without further ado, here's the first chapter of Thistledown! Please comment and vote! :D

~The Easily Excited!

Thistledown Update: Cover!

Hey all!

Sorry for not posting in a while, I sorta needed a break from all that writing. I got a new cover that's going to work out for the e-book version of Thistledown! Whoot!

I made it extra large so you can see all the pretty detail. And nope, I am not ashamed to make it large and in charge of this post! It's freakin' fabulous! And it looks like Emily Browning! All hail Katherine C. Smith for this lovely image! Bitch you fantastic!

Now I have to get off of my dead ass and work on the damn story, lol. I've given myself till February at the very latest to have everything completed and ready for Smashwords. I'm printing out a hard copy to work on right now so that way I can actually read over what I wrote during NaNo and try to do some damage control. I hope I pleasantly surprise myself with something that's halfway descent and doesn't need a major makeover, but I'm not holding out. Have I mentioned I hate not editing as I go? Let me sing you the song of my grammatically correct people....

~Dreading The Re-Read