Thursday, November 26, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all five of my readers :)

Still working on NaNo.  I actually like it and over 40K.  The next 10K will be junk mostly.  Random what if scenarios to complete NaNo but at least this much I feel works and flows.  
Unlike my year.  There are years when I just go...come on now really????  And this was one of those.  Every time I brush myself off from the latest character building happenstance something more horrific tends to rear its ugly head.  Sort of like well my monsters in my stories.  Anyone wonder where I get the fuel?

Back to writing.  

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Day 12 NaNo

Cloudy sky here but nothing like all the rest of the nation.  Promises of "cooler" weather like down to the 70s!

NaNo has been skittering off a bit at times given the lousy work condition and various interrupting junk I cleared 15K at lunch.  Way short but the story isn't falling but my exhaustion has been pretty severe.  A bit of OT and tons of stress at work has cut out my hour plus of free writing time down to 15 or 20 minutes a day during break.  After dinner and all that I get hour or so in thus only a bit over a thousand words a day.  I still am pleased with the tale.  Night Job is roughly ten years later from Lindy Dough of the Dead Zombie romp I did back in 2007.  Yep.  Since then Hollywood has gone nuts for Zombies!  Go figure huh?

Well back to the words.

Monday, November 9, 2015

NaNo over 10K


Life tends to plan while I try to live.  That said I brought home some nummy See's candies from my visit home last month.  Stuffed the box above in the produce keeper drawer where I would nibble a piece after long days.  I have been pretty good because my writing time has been slashed to minutes and dreams some days but still I like what I am doing. That means my treats are lasting longer!

I started with an idea for Piker Press http://www.pikerpress.com for the Day of the Dead and stuffed it into my NaNo box instead.  Basically my short stories for previous Piker Press work netted a zombie tale years ago.  I mean like nearly ten.  During this time Zombies became the rage.  Hell, I'd already done it.  Smug I figured I'd toss together a bit of a creepy tale and suddenly my brain was being devoured. Thus I started 'Night Job' on November first for NaNo.  Up to 11K right now and aiming for another thousand before I sleep.  Not on schedule for the NaNo numbers but a good weekend can catch me up if the world lets me do it.

Fun story and it's clearing cobwebs from this past year and creating more fun!

Hope you are all well.