I'm all about having an awesome writing cave. Whiteboards are wonderful. So are color-coded index cards and sticky notes. Part of them hold outlines, part of them (the yellow ones to the left) my favorite TV tropes. And one of my favorite things featured on my big writing board is a quote from Don Maas at this previous weekend's Backspace Writer's Conference "Is there a moment in your manuscript when your protagonist decides that the cost is too high to achieve his goal? That he wants to quit?" This has been a wonderful pointer for me and totally emulates the black moment in EMPIRE OF LIGHT.
So anyway, I'm an antisocial recluse, all couped up in my writing corner as I intend to achieve the following three goals in the month of June:
1.) Finish this draft of EoL (dun dun DUN! about 35k to go and if I keep this up I may just make it ;)) Also, Write or Die is my friend :D Although Nazca-cat hates it. She comes running and gives me the WTF?! Make it STOP! STUPID BIPED!!! - look whenever it goes off. So I better keep writing...
2.) Edit the parts that are still in Ares' PoV to form one shiny and cohesive draft, also include all the editing notes on the editing pointers whiteboard.
3.) Get this puppy send out to betas with the hope that it won't be too physically painful for any unsuspecting beta I may be able to ensnare/rope into reading ;)
Anyway, better get back to writing. That mid-book-climax is clamoring for attention ;)
P.S.: I'm also getting really stoked to start SLEEPING WITH GHOSTS a UF with a snarky bi-gender MC who likes to make money by scamming people (and also is able to communicate with the dead) and a zombified dragon slayer of the Germanic Nibelungen saga. Together Ash and Sig are going to rock out in a slightly whacky, slightly wild German/English UF crossover full of pathological liars, kick-ass women, creepy, vengeful witches and old gypsy curses ;)
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