Some links for the morning

Because I have too many tabs open

Finding an agent, Australia-style.

What’s safe to syndicate online. (especially important if you’re thinking of publishing chapters of novels on your website)

Writing the novel that’s in you (and not for the market).

Automatically formatting your novel in Word.

One year of great writing advice.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

October 13th, 2009

Today’s progress:

Project: White Raven draft two

New words: 2,436

Total words: 95,846

Goal: 100k

Writing:

Not a lot of actual forward motion in terms of total word count today.  I spent some time fixing up some issues I’d been having with scenes that I worked on yesterday, and moved on a little in the plot.  Now I just have to deal with the climax.  The men in the basement need to do a little work on this, so hopefully they’ll be kicking in and earning their keep.

Weirdly, even though I’m dying to get to the end of this draft, I’m also dying now to begin the next round of edits.  At the moment, I anticipate another full draft and then a round of line edits before I’m going to even think of sending this one out into the world.  Not sure as to whether I’ll get to work on this straight away when I return to work in the new year, or if I’ll work on producing a first draft of Never first.  I wish I was the kind of person who could work on multiple projects, but that’s not going to happen, especially with a new baby in the house.  I guess it’ll depend on what my brain is up to then

Real life:

Ran a few errands, including picking up some groceries and filling a prescription at the chemist.  Spoke to yet more people about house stuff.  So far, over the next few weeks we’ll have some fairly major work done on the ceilings (which should prove interesting for my schedule – hoping to be mostly done with this draft before then) and someone coming in to quote on replacing blinds.  I swear, at times it feels like we’ve replaced half of this house.  But we knew that this work was going to need to be done when we bought the place.  And the house is awesome enough to justify it.  Thankfully, the ceiling work *should* be the last major work that needs to be done.  Everything else lined up is cosmetic.

I’ve finished writing earlyish today, and will go for a walk shortly.  I have a bunch of stuff that needs to be done around the house – none of it particularly urgent, but it would be nice to have it done.  I might make a start on some of it.  And then walk, and then get stuck into review work and slush reading.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.