Oct. 18th, 2011
I've had an excellent morning.
Oct. 18th, 2011 04:59 pmPart of this is because I'm in between the spans of a pharmaceutical study, and can therefore gleefully resume my caffeine consumption. Part of it, however, is that I've just received my second paid commission for fiction. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
necromommycon needs a short story to go out with her Christmas letter this year, so between now and December I have to write 2000 words of Christmas-themed Lovecraftian fantasy. My intention is to hammer myself out a rough draft before November comes around, and then spend a comfortable month revising, so if anyone has any particularly entertaining notions for how to combine Cthulhu and Christmas, I'm open to suggestions.
She is, in this case, buying exclusive rights for a one-year timespan, after which the story will revert to me. This means, yet again, that the story will not be posted on my blog, but I will discuss plot and process as I go along; so anyone who wants to be added to that filter will see snippets, and anyone volunteering to beta-read for me will get to see the whole thing.
In other news, I owe another Scum and Villainy update and another Broken Road update, if anyone is interested in seeing those. They rarely get comments, so I'm not sure how much good posting the summaries is doing anyone, though certainly it helps me to remember what the Hell is going on so I don't muddle my own campaign canon.
I have written exactly six words of fiction so far today -- four words in one chapter of The Hellion Prince, and two words in a different chapter. Heh.
Not much to report from the rest of my life, except that I just returned ten library books which I read over the past week, and have now checked out another eighteen.
Haven't been blogging my reading as much as I intended to, but binges like this are part of the reason why; :-).
I have every non-winning piece for McDonald's Monopoly, as well as three free Medium Fries.
And now, to fiction.
necromommycon needs a short story to go out with her Christmas letter this year, so between now and December I have to write 2000 words of Christmas-themed Lovecraftian fantasy. My intention is to hammer myself out a rough draft before November comes around, and then spend a comfortable month revising, so if anyone has any particularly entertaining notions for how to combine Cthulhu and Christmas, I'm open to suggestions.She is, in this case, buying exclusive rights for a one-year timespan, after which the story will revert to me. This means, yet again, that the story will not be posted on my blog, but I will discuss plot and process as I go along; so anyone who wants to be added to that filter will see snippets, and anyone volunteering to beta-read for me will get to see the whole thing.
In other news, I owe another Scum and Villainy update and another Broken Road update, if anyone is interested in seeing those. They rarely get comments, so I'm not sure how much good posting the summaries is doing anyone, though certainly it helps me to remember what the Hell is going on so I don't muddle my own campaign canon.
I have written exactly six words of fiction so far today -- four words in one chapter of The Hellion Prince, and two words in a different chapter. Heh.
Not much to report from the rest of my life, except that I just returned ten library books which I read over the past week, and have now checked out another eighteen.
Haven't been blogging my reading as much as I intended to, but binges like this are part of the reason why; :-).
I have every non-winning piece for McDonald's Monopoly, as well as three free Medium Fries.
And now, to fiction.