Greetings! Thanks for all the encouragement to keep the blog going! I’m settling in with the job now. At first I was pretty much coming home and conking out. The girls would come by throughout the afternoon and remind me of things like music lessons and Kung Fu. I’d get a chocolate fix and then start the driving. Now I don’t nap every day.
I’ve been getting some writing done. About 10k words since I last posted. Most of it has happened recently. Last year I volunteered to be in an anthology. Everyone has to contribute an original erotic paranormal romance story at least 15k words long. The project has changed leaders several times, and I thought it was dead. But someone ressurected it and set deadlines. I have 8000 words done and it’s due Friday. Yikes!!!
Unfortunately, out of those 8000 words, there’s still not a sex scene. The story is riddled with raunchy language but no one has gotten it on yet. Part of the problem is the story was originally envisioned to be written under my real name. In fact, I submitted short stories of it to several places. But the main character is a satyr, which obviously lends himself to my pen name much more than my real name. But the world building gets me every time. And now that it’s going to be longer, the other two characters are demanding more time on the stage…you know how characters can be.
So I’ll be coming by this week to let you know my progress towards the looming deadline. I’d love to hear how your projects are going too!
For inspiration, here’s a picture of my favorite satyr drawn by Kevin Yancey:
I do more writing when I have deadlines, too, Melinda. Right now there are none looming. I just turned in a story for a fairy tale website and I turned in a Guardian Angel Kids article last week. Hoping to still do some writing this week, though.
Me too. I’m better with deadlines. I’m still working on the trick of setting them for myself.
It always takes a little time to adapt to a new schedule.
I’m managing to get some writing done, so I’m happy about that.
Keep us posted about the progress, Melinda!