The Beast Undone

Well this morning I finished my second novel The Beast Undone. It still needs edited but for the most part it's finished. There's something terribly sad about finishing a novel, even though I plan more future novels in the series, I feel like I'm leaving my freinds behind. I've gotten so used to peeking at my character's lives.

This novel is much longer than the first, which I intend to go back and edit/add to until it is a decent length. The first one ended up peaking at 153 pages while the second ended up reaching 317 pages. At least until I edit it. One never knows what may happen during editing. I'm going to try for four books next year and the years after. I can generally write a novel in about a month and a half if I don't procrastinate so I figure if I set myself a goal of 3 months per novel I'll be fine. Next year I'm aiming for the following novels:

Children of Beasts (3rd book in series)
The Beast Queen (4th book in series)
Umber (new series starter)
Soot (new series starter)

We'll see how it goes, best laid plans and all that!

Nano Day 8

I am so bad about updating my blog during nanowrimo, it's all that extra writing! I am soooo jealous of ussvoyager from our nanogroup, she's already over 40k~ Way to go! We have this great group of people that show up every weekend at the local tea house and sit in for a write in and we're always getting new people who just pop by, it's great fun. Everyone should do nanowrimo, every year (because you can't just do it one year) So far it's day 8 as of this morning, (of 30) and I have over 20k in words, only 30k more to go! I've been finding the writing really easy because I'm at a really interesting part of my book, but alas, there aren't always enough hours in the day to write! Anyway, I figured i'd post my word count widget here in my blog so everyone can keep track of how i'm doing, it takes it a while to update the wordcount once it's been changed, but it's usually fairly accurate to within 24 hours.


I like this particular graph because it allows me to see not only that i've met my goal, but how far beyond it i've managed for a day (dark grey turns light grey when the goal is met, the green is how far beyond the goal I go) of course if we wanted to make it simpler...



this one will do. cheer me on everyone!