Writing on my new vampire romance novel, Heart of Darkness<\/b>, was much slower this week, or at least it felt that way. It was definitely more of an effort. I often hit a patch when writing a story where I feel as though it’s complete rubbish, or isn’t working, or I’m repeating myself, or some other negative vibe. I think all authors do it.<\/p>\n
My usual trick is to read back over the story I’ve written so far and prove to myself that it’s fine, and all easy to fix if there are issues. The trouble is, this vibe hit me at 90,000 words. Now, I’m not going to take a week off schedule just to get over my usual writing jitters. Instead I just pushed on through and eventually found my flow again. The positive thing to come out of this week was that at the end of it my fingers weren’t ready to fall off.<\/p>\n
I had actually ended up writing another 37000 words, but without the pain and insane rush!<\/p>\n
So, the story is coming along well and we’re definitely into that wonderful downhill slide now. I have 3.5 chapters left to write, including one love scene and one major fight scene. Both of those are going to take effort, but I can’t see it taking me the whole of next week to write them, which means that by Wednesday, Heart of Darkness<\/b> is likely to be finished in first draft!<\/p>\n
At the end of last week I had reached 72200 words roughly and I had planned to write another standard 30000 words this week. If I could write 37000 words instead, then that was going to add to my fantastic feeling that I’ve had with this story and propel me towards the potential of writing a 120,000 word novel in only 3.5 weeks.<\/p>\n
At the end of this week, the word count now stands at 109051, which is almost 37000 words this week. That’s rather exciting for me considering that I felt as though I was going at a snail’s pace this week and that I wasn’t going to reach 30000 let alone 37000!<\/p>\n
The story will be all wrapped up around the 125-130,000 word mark and then I’ll set it aside and start the second draft on Forbidden Blood<\/b>.<\/p>\n
In other writing news, Hades’ Boys<\/b> are making their voices known again and I’ve been writing down notes for their stories and the world it will be set in. I’m excited about them crowing for attention again as they’ve been away a while.<\/p>\n
I’m also choosing to ignore the demands of other vampires who want their stories written and just noting down what they’ve been telling me about them and their stories for future writing.<\/p>\n
I really have to concentrate on the second drafts of these three paranormal romance novels and planning the Hades’ Boys<\/b> series and then I can think about writing new stories. It’s going to be tough and something is bound to test me and make me write when I should be editing, but until that happens, I intend to be strong and focused! I can get my quick writing jollies from the A Day in the Life<\/b> series as I still need to write another five of those this year.<\/p>\n
Off to whip up some blurbs for the next two A Day in the Life<\/b> stories and then it’s domestic goddess time and after that some much needed PS3 time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Writing on my new vampire romance novel, Heart of Darkness, was much slower this week, or at least it felt that way. It was definitely more of an effort. I often hit a patch when writing a story where I … Continue reading