naomi_jay | 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.

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Get well. I hate being at work sick. How do you manage to work and get so much writing done? What is your secret?

I did some editing on what I had, but didn't really add any new words. I'm fixing to post my new wordage on my LJ with my new projected word count.

Thanks. I actually feel a bit better now for having been up and about.

*whispers*Sometimes, if it's quiet, I write at work. On a good day I can churn out 2k between opening the post and answering the phone, lol.

How's the editing going?

LOL, I'm getting about 1k done at work. I think if I stopped playing around on LJ and FB I might get more done.

I also don't write too fast, but I expect that will come with more practice.

I only had time for a little editing this weekend. Actually hung out with the fam. I opened my document a little while ago to start working on it.

I just realized dropbox is saving my file at work and my file from my borrowed laptop differently because I'm using different versions of Word. At least the files are getting saved on the internet and I can just d/l them.

Anti-Nano Check-In, early edition

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