Guess what?

I have returned! And this time I have a little more time on my hands. No, the laptop still isn't back. It'll be two weeks this Saturday. But I AM finished with NaNo!! That's right, Aliens Ruined My Life is complete at 50,300 words!

If you ask me how the heck I did it, the answer is: sugar, a character that wouldn't shut up, and a willingness to put everything else aside and just sit in the house for an entire weekend (probably the last beautiful, slightly warm weekend we're going to get until April) and write.

I've started editing Destiny, Jump, and ARML with the goal to finish all three of them before Christmas break. I'll ship them out to betas and then hopefully start working on my next project over break.

I'm taking tonight off, but tomorrow I'll get my butt in gear and start editing. I've already got the first chapter of Destiny printed out with a list of revision suggestions in front of me. I'm also going to try to be a better blogger and start working on blogging every day again.

Comments

Emilia Plater said…
OMG, HR, you are a productivity machine!!! Just the thought of being as productive as you makes me tired LOL
November 18, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Static Void said…
wow... just wow... You wrote an entire novel in the time I wrote about... *counts* 5k
November 19, 2009 at 10:09 AM
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