Stuff and things

[naomi_jay]

So I'm still hard at work on a million things. Night Breed is coming along nicely, although it feels like a very different book to the other Urban Wolf novels so far. It's a lot more of a slow burn, lots of twisty plot threads, and I'm worried I won't be able to pull it all together. It's not the book I thought it would be, and I don't know yet if that's in a good way or a bad way. Still, I'm on track to have the first draft done by the end of September holy shit is that really only two weeks away? What the hell am I talking about? so then I can send it to my editor and let him tell me whether it works or not.

Speaking of Urban Wolf, we're looking at an October release for DARK HUNT! I've done the blurb and some extra fun bits and pieces, and am pretty excited about the second book being out in the world. It really doesn't seem that long ago that SILVER KISS was released, and now I'm writing book three of the series. Eek!

In other news, as October is rapidly approaching, let's talk Anti-Nano. I'm hoping/assuming everyone who's doing springathonwill be up for it, and maybe some of the people who did wwathonlast year too. I'm planning to throw open my blog in October for signing up - both for returners and any newcomers that might have found their way here since last November, so there'll be an inaugral blog post about that soon.

In other other news, I think I mentioned before I've been thinking about implementing a blogging schedule, like Writerly Wednesday (so I could finally get round to those short story posts), Random Monday... I don't know. I like the idea of it, because as much as I just like blogging random crap as it comes to me, I think I need to get more structure into my writing career instead of just flailing wildly and hoping for the best, and this might be a step in that direction. I'm interested in whether people like that approach from writers or if they don't care either way?

Comments

[acidamoeba.livejournal.com]

I am looking forward to anti-nano.

I was thinking about doing a "Flash-Fiction Friday" sort of thing on my more proffessional blog... like you say, some sort of structure might help- that and it puts work out there without the inner need for it to sell.

I like it when authors post snippets and/or flash fictions. It's like a peep into their work or the way they think, and that sort of thing fascinates me.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Snippets was what I was thinking of - I like that sort of thing on other authors' blogs too.

[spiderling.livejournal.com]

I'm up for springathon! Got my YA to work on! Which after 70+ handwritten pages I'm already losing faith in.... Erg!

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's better than you think!

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

Might actually make a go of it this time.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Cool! ^_^