The Trouble With Demons -- It begins
The copyedited manuscript for Armed & Magical is on its way back to New York, and last night I finished typing up the rest of my notes for The Trouble With Demons. Nothing left to do now but get going.
Yikes.
Starting a book is exciting because the possibilities are endless. Starting a book is scary because the possibilities are endless. If I pick the wrong possibility, I could screw up this book really quick. But I've been there before, done that, fixed it, and swore it'd never happen again. ; ) That's where a detailed synopsis can save your bacon. A royal pain to write, but at least for me, more of a pain not to have. That way if I do go off wandering down a side road that leads to a dead end, I have a map to get me back on the highway.
I'm now on page 6 of Chapter 1. I'm going to finish Chapter 1 by this Sunday. And my personal deadline for the book is to have the first draft finished by February 1 at the very latest. January 1 would be better. The Trouble With Demons is due to Anne Sowards, my editor at Ace Books on May 1. There, I've said it. You all know my deadline. This blog is now getting over 30,000 hits a month. (big grin) Thank you all for dropping by and hanging out! By posting it here, I've just told thousands of people my deadline.
It'd be embarrassing as hell if I missed it. Now that's what I call motivation. ; )
Yikes.
Starting a book is exciting because the possibilities are endless. Starting a book is scary because the possibilities are endless. If I pick the wrong possibility, I could screw up this book really quick. But I've been there before, done that, fixed it, and swore it'd never happen again. ; ) That's where a detailed synopsis can save your bacon. A royal pain to write, but at least for me, more of a pain not to have. That way if I do go off wandering down a side road that leads to a dead end, I have a map to get me back on the highway.
I'm now on page 6 of Chapter 1. I'm going to finish Chapter 1 by this Sunday. And my personal deadline for the book is to have the first draft finished by February 1 at the very latest. January 1 would be better. The Trouble With Demons is due to Anne Sowards, my editor at Ace Books on May 1. There, I've said it. You all know my deadline. This blog is now getting over 30,000 hits a month. (big grin) Thank you all for dropping by and hanging out! By posting it here, I've just told thousands of people my deadline.
It'd be embarrassing as hell if I missed it. Now that's what I call motivation. ; )
posted by Lisa Shearin at
8:24 AM
6 Comments:
Good Luck for your deadline!!! and thankyou, I cannot wait to read the first two chapters of A & M. What can I say I like to torture myself!
Take Care,
Lorna (Winters Kiss)
Wow; that's an aggressive deadline. I'm curious -- do you have any input to your deadlines? Is there any penalty other than embarrassment if you miss it? Are you still trying to work fulltime while meeting this deadline?
Best of luck! You have us 30,000 visitors a month to keep you going! Keep posting your wordcounts and we'll cheer you on!
Thank you everyone!
Hi Tia! The embarrassment would be for missing my personal deadline of Feb. 1 for the finished first draft. I WILL NOT miss my editor's deadline. And yes, I did have input. Anne asked if May 1 would work for me. I said it would.
I'll be doing two chapters a week to meet that first draft deadline. My social life is officially over.
I can use all the cheering on I can get. ; ) Thank you!
good luck! i love ur writing, its great! :) from W.G
I stopped reading at "30,000 hits a month." Whoa! Having a fairly high-traffic blog that just hit 5,000 in 3 months, I am quite impressed.
Will be here to prod, er, cheer you along toward your goal. :)
I'm amazed (and grateful) for all the traffic. What's just too cool is looking at the charts indicating all the countries my visitors are from. Now, I'm good at geography, but a couple of them I had to look up to see where they were. Like I said, it's all just too cool. : )
Thank you, everyone!!
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