Woo hoo

May 3, 2008 at 11:10 am, I finished Jak and the Giants.  Yay me!

The last couple of weeks were obstacley with the mother arriving into town, and my birthday and the job that pays my rent being busy, but the last words were done today!!  I'm way happy. Granted, I have a lot of editing/typing/re-writing to do, but that's the easy (if un-fun) part.  

Overall I'm really happy how this book turned out.  It grew as I wrote it so I'll have to be extra edity, but everything came together the way I wanted and it's coherent in ways that The Last Guardian was not.  I think  my handwriting experiment was a success in that I was able to really make a connection to my characters and my story that I didn't make with Guardian.  I ended up buying a Pelikan M800 and some more inks.  They pretty. 

For the next 6 weeks I'll be typing and editing as well as getting my health back together.  A year ago I was like uber- healthy and now I'm not, so I'll be taking this time to get back into shape.  I also want to write a short story about a cannibal that I've been churning in my head for a couple of years.  I think I'm actually ready to write it.

"Falling is Like This" got it's second rejection.  I'm going to have to get a book on where to submit because I think I'm submitting to the wrong publications.  They all have more of a Sci-Fi bent and "Falling..." is more horror.

I've also started working out my comic "Plain Jane" and got some really cool storyboard paper to see if I can "write" an issue.  If I can do that then I'll type it up as a "script" and send it out.  It's actually coming together to be fairly neat.

Word of the Day:  Complete

Into the Giant's Den

I am there. Or rather, I'm nearly there. I'm embarking upon the penultimate scene and will be wrapping up book one within the month. I could forseeably have it done this weekend, but I don't want to rush it. It's funny because maybe a month ago I felt like it would never be done, and now I'm loathe to pen the last couple of chapters. Luckily I've got the second two books to work on...and boy are they gonna be good.

I have a lot of editing to do though. I was aiming for a tight 80 to 90k word book and this one has ballooned up to about 130 to 140k. Hopefully I can cut it down by 10k words when I combine the first few chapters but the narrative is already pretty spare. Unlike my first book (which I have decided from henceforth will be known as my ugly baby) I was very brief with description and didn't get overly writerly. Either way, I'll see when I'm done and I do my first read through.

Of course I have to type the rest of it up (YUCK!).

I've decided I'm going to take six weeks and start myself back on the road to healthiness. This time last year I was in the best shape of my life. This year at at the worst. I blame it on my depression and writing two books in about 6 months. It's hard to worry about diet when your whole focus is on work. Not to mention I have a full time job. So I'll be hitting the gym pretty hard and starting back on my super-healthy diet.

I'm also turning 30 in a couple of weeks. Scary.