Paksworld

Another day of travel, another 2000+ words added to Book III.    Maybe I should live on the train?   No, not really.   But it focuses my mind something wonderful–no phone, no interruptions (well, meals and such but nothing else) and the words come.   Scenery, too.  And interesting people when I do come up for air.  (Little do they know, the writer is watching…and listening…bwah-hah-hah-hah!)

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When those of you in the UK started complaining about no access to ebooks of my stuff in the UK-European English-language distribution area, I went to Orbit UK, looked at their site, and then emailed my UK editor.  (I am  lucky to have two great editors right now,  Betsy Mitchell at Del Rey and Bella Pagan at Orbit UK.)    Anyway, Bella Pagan said she’d look into it, and time passed, and now I know the whole nitty-gritty story, as of her email today.

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The Thursday and Friday were fizzles as far as writing was concerned, and Saturday wasn’t especially good, but did produce something, and this evening the scenes I’d been contemplating while driving to and from church today came alive, so I made both my week goal of 10,0oo words and I’m on track to meet  my month goal as of midnight Sunday (yes, it’s after midnight–just finished work at 11:54.)

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…The Writing Magic, that is.    After some slogging days of making quota but not feeling the thrill (“But I’d rather sit out by the water garden and watch dragonflies…”)  I started a scene on Tuesday that grew…and picked the right place to stop for the day.

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I will be at Dragon*Con this year  (Sept 3-6, Atlanta GA.)  Schedule:

Friday: 4 pm Autograph Session

Saturday: 1 pm “Hour with Elizabeth Moon”

Saturday: 7 pm  Dragon*Con Awards Banquet (not a good place to chat. LOUD!)

Sunday :  1 pm “Delphic Oracle” (panel storytelling game)

Sunday :  4 pm  “Science Fiction and Politics”

Sunday: 7 pm  “Showcase: Elizabeth Moon

Monday:  11:30 am “The New Amazons”

Monday: 4 pm  “The Future of Fantastic Fiction”

Would be fun to meet up with Paksworld fans attending Dragon*Con somewhere in those four days.     I will be bringing along some unusual (one at least utterly unique) items to give away, probably in a random drawing, maybe after a contest.  Depends on responses here and there.

(And of course I’ll be glad to see fans of the other books and series as well–all are welcome.)

From Kings of the North…

Location: Chaya, the Royal Ossuary.   POV: King Kieri Phelan

Situation:  Kieri’s become aware of something mysterious and troubling interfering with his attempt to bring elves and humans closer together.  He has visited the ossuary before,  and had some disturbing hints.   Now he’s there again…

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This week wasn’t as productive as the week before, due to Things.    However, other than two of the Things (neither of which produced any balancing good result), Things got done that needed doing.  (Not all, by any means.)

10,020 words for the five-day work week despite one day of <300 words.   22,054 for the month of August up to this moment.   Need another 20,000 by the end of the month (before Dragon*Con, that is.)

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2700 words today.

That’s really brief, but it’s really late.

The first new song of the new group of books popped up after choir tonight.   Now I need to write the music for it.

2641 words today, not bad for a Monday.   Especially a Monday that included a visit to a friend whose mother died over the weekend, a trip to the town 20 miles away to get some much-needed immunizations (tetanus was way overdue),  some more set-up work on a computer (changing one suite of software for another–always SUCH fun.)   And baking additional bread (but not making the dough today–thawing out the lumps of frozen dough from yesterday, because the larger loaf from yesterday went to the friend whose mother had died, along with a couple of quarts of homemade soup.)

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It’s been an interesting week in the writer-as-worker world.   I did in fact meet and even exceed my weekly quota, topping 2000 words/day and ending up with a total for the five days of just over 12,000 words.  Two of the days produced really good stuff.   Three of the days produced more pedestrian stuff, but enough forward motion through the plot that there’s something to work with in revision.  Two of the days (including one that turned out very well in the end, and one that turned out OK in the end) were very, very difficult…to get started, to continue, to drag out the task to the end of the day (which was late.)

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