Time to start #AmWriting Working on A Smear of Blood today. I've got one scene that needs a re-write and 3000 words left of the last version to through and see what can be saved. Hoping to get through all that today.
Gonna grab some lunch, and then get some #AmWriting done.
Time to get some #AmWriting done.
Continuing work on A Smear of Blood -- it's time for Iberto to seek out a Called for the moon goddess.
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Time to start doing some writing. Working on A Smear of Blood, with a word goal of 1500.
Writing is going well today! Have a mid-session snippet:
“This,” she finally said, “this is why you took me.”
Iberto hesitated. “I do not know what you learned to anger you so — but that anger? That need to destroy? Yes. I will do whatever I can, become whatever I must, to overcome the monks and restore the goddes. No matter what the cost.”
“Then I am with you,” Kira heard herself say. “I do not— can not forgive you, but I understand and will stand with you. No matter the cost.”
I meant to continue writing another half hour, but i don't like the way my brain feels. Stopping now. 1030 words written, plus 940 words imported from prior version of this story, for a total of nearly 2000 words added today.
Good progress.
Going to try to do some writing. Fingers crossed the week away gave my brain time to settle enough I can actually make progress!
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Friction. I loved reading this piece.
"I have something new," Leo says. His voice is tight. "But... it's rough. It's really messy."
"Messy is good," I say, leaning in. "Messy is where the blood is."
I think @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social made that first point very beautifully in https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/ and I liked it so much I want to share it to no end
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Friction. I loved reading this piece.
"I have something new," Leo says. His voice is tight. "But... it's rough. It's really messy."
"Messy is good," I say, leaning in. "Messy is where the blood is."
Confronting a character with their bad behaviour backfires spectacularly.
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Gonna try to get some writing done. Aiming for ~1250 words of outline/synopsis in the next two hours.
Here goes nothing.
I've got another paranormal why choose romance brewing
Charley Anne was taken by surprise when a stranger claimed that she was a witch and soulmate to eir coven. She reluctantly agreed to meet eir coven and discovered that ey was telling the truth. Just as she is getting comfortable with her coven mates, she meets her dreamlover and learns that she is soul-bound to their magical family, called a ‘chord’. Bound to two different magical groups, from two different secret traditions, Charley Anne and her various loves must forge a future that can work for everyone.
IF you are a fiction writer, especially of genre fiction, and
IF you would like to work with a professional editor who eschews the use of AI for writing or editing, and
IF you have a final draft sitting somewhere, that's been read by your trusted team of beta readers (you do have beta readers, don't you?), whether it's a short story or a 150K-word novel,
THEN
I might be the editor you're looking for. My specialties are SF/F, historical, horror, thriller, action/adventure, and weird (think William Hope Hodgson, Lovecraft, Blackwood, etc.). It's horror but not pure. It's . . . weird.
Yes, I'm mostly retired, but I'm not gone. I'd love to work with the right client! I've edited for clients around the world, so no worries if you're not in the US (I envy you, these days).
Maybe that is you.
https://grammargeddon.com/karen-s-conlin
#AmWriting #AmEditing #FictionWriters #FictionEditors #HistFic #HistoricalFiction #SpecFic #SpeculativeFiction #HorrorFiction
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Cinema might not get everything right but it's surprising how often it manages to predict certain events, science and technology in the future. Of course, not all of these are that important but it's fun nonetheless and who can object to that?