From Twitter 11-21-2010

• 03:08:16: @box5angel lol, I dodged the camera all night! It's my special skill
  
• 10:55:11: @TezMillerOz Just once a month. Any more often and the men would die of over excitement!
  
• 11:02:45: @TezMillerOz I let them experiment. Honestly, they're better at make up application than me anyway!
  
• 11:05:02: I only had one drink last night so why do I have that sandpaper feeling in my mouth?
  
• 11:08:16: I think it must be from shouting over the music, but I still don't think it's fair
  
• 13:15:23: Junk food, check. Every single Friday 13th film, check. Sunday is happening
  
• 13:33:41: @Scarimonious You should! We have cookies and doritos and one massive stack of slasher flicks
  
• 13:47:01: @Scarimonious Why can't every day be like this?
  
• 14:06:19: I love that Jason never kills animals. He may be a deranged undead psychopathic manic, but he has standards, dammit!
  
• 14:18:27: And we're on to part three - Friday 13th in 3D! Look at that 3D broom handle shocking the 1980s
  
• 14:21:56: @shewolfmanc I know, it's great! I so much prefer this era of horror to modern slasher flicks and torture porn
  
• 14:47:28: Note to self: If one of your werewolves has a broken nose in one chapter, probably you need to remember that in future chapters
  
• 14:48:49: I try so hard to avoid "Instant magic werewolf healing!!!" in the Urban Wolf novels. My werewolves heal fast, but not instantly
  
• 15:58:16: @K8JohnsonAuthor Ha, very cunning! I like your style
  
• 16:33:14: My phrase of the day is apparently "apex predator"
  
• 16:40:32: @shewolfmanc Thank you! I'm struggling in Blood Hunt because there are burn wounds and it's strangely hard to get info on their treatment
  
• 16:45:39: @shewolfmanc Second degree burns on the legs. I figure Ayla being a werewolf means I can fudge some things, but not everything!
  
• 17:03:43: Aha! I love that I've already laid the groundwork for a major plot point in Urban Wolf 3 without even realising it!
  
• 17:04:01: I love it when a plan comes together
  
• 17:21:57: @AnneLyle I've managed to ween myself down to just two notebooks, but it's taken years
  
• 17:53:38: Only 38 more pages left to go on Blood Hunt. Should have the second draft wrapped up in a couple of days ^_^
  
• 18:42:58: Have dug out the beginning of a story I started a few years ago. Never got past 2k, but think it might be worth trying to finish
  
• 20:36:46: We've made it to Friday 13th part seven. I'm sure my IQ has dropped slightly
  

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Anti-Nano Check-In, early edition

It's 8.47 am, I have a terrible cold, and I'm at work. Could today be any worse? Well, there's time yet...

 

On the other hand, I've only got 38 pages of BLOOD HUNT to go through before I wrap up the second draft. Huzzahs! I was pleased to discover I'd included some stuff about werewolf high school gangs that will tie nicely into Urban Wolf book 3, but horrified to discover I know nothing about the treatment of second-degree burns. But that's why beta readers are awesome, thank you, blythe025 !

I haven't added anything to Night and Chaos over the weekend, but spent some time on Saturday working on a Paranormal Romance novella which I'd like to submit to Evernight Publishing under my Sekrit Identity when it's done*. I'm planning to spend today and tomorrow finishing off BLOOD HUNT, then getting back to work on Night and Chaos later in the week.

So, how's everyone else doing?

I suppose there's no point being coy about it. My Sekrit Identity is tessa_morelock (I know! I got it from a vampire name generator).I was going to wait until I'd actually sold some stuff under that name before making a big deal about it, but I have had two short stories accepted by Static Movement under this name, so there we are. This is Part II of The Plan, you see, dear readers, which is basically Writer Some Romance and Sell It Because People Love Romance. Which sounds incredibly cynical of me when put like that, but my intentions are nothing but good. I've always secretly wanted to write for Harlequin Nocturne, and I think I've mentioned here before how much I'd love to write a great big OTT paranormal romance saga ala Gena Showalter's Lords of the Underworld, or Anna Windsor's Crescent Moon Sisterhood. And blah blah branding etc, I decided a pen name would be fun. So that's that, really. Anyway.
 

Attention Fellow Anti-Nano Cultists!

It has been brought to my attention that Anti-Nano is going well, and that some of you are enjoying it. Me too! I'm loving reading everyone's excerpts, and seeing everyone's progress, not to mention the warm glow of satisfaction I get from running a cult. So, shall we keep it going?

out_totheblack has suggested we run Anti-Nano past the end of November and turn it into a Winter-Write-A-Thon (or WWAT, which seems appropriate). I am totally up for this - I'm getting loads of work done this month and would love to keep that momentum going, and nothing motivates me as much as other writers getting stuff done too. So how about it? I suggest we keep going until either the end of December or the end of January. I know December gets to be busy what with holidays and Christmas and families and all that pesky stuff, so having January there to pick up the pace again suits me.

Let me know what you all think - and if you're not Anti-Nano-ing but you are jealous of how awesome we all are, feel free to join the WWAT!

It Is Done

 wwathon  is live! Whether or not you're currently doing Anti-Nano, you're welcome to sign on for the Winter-Write-a-Thon and write through to January 31st 2011. The principles of Anti-Nano continue: set your own goal, check-in Mondays and Fridays, excerpts on Wednesdays (if that pattern continues to suit everyone?)

I'll do an official WWAT sign-up post shortly so we can all post our new/ongoing goals, but in the mean time feel free to go over and settle in!