Gone Writing!

Hi All!

In my mad quest to try and get my blog to a respectable status, I have sorely neglected my writing. I plan to remedy that this weekend by going into a writing frenzy. My goals are:

1. One last edit before I lay IRON WILLED to rest.
2. Finish my synopsis.
3. Query at least 1 agent.

Considering my severe lack of attention span due to a mysterious cold virus, the above are probably very lofty goals. I will try my best to achieve them nonetheless.

What does this mean for the blog? Not much really, I'll still be around. Stalkers gotta stalk. But as you can see, I am not doing FF this week as it takes up a huge chunk of my weekends.

See you on the other side.

*PS. Some of you may be wondering at the lack of reviews posted lately. It's this darned only reviewing books I finished/liked rule. Books unfinished:

Wither (closed book too many times = not interested enough)
Firelight (Bella flashbacks. May pick it up again)
Gregor the Overlander (tried it for Suzanne Collins but couldn't get into it) and finally:
Reread Vampire Academy for kicks!

Hunger Games Obsessiveness and My Handicap

OK, so one day into my new found writing challenge and the bearable dull pain in my right pointer finger becomes...well...unbearable. I realise I've been doing a lot of blog stalking lately, but do the writing gods really have to punish me with this infliction?

On a side note, I've run into a bit of a conundrum over the writing competition I entered. I was originally thinking I should write a 25,000 word monstrosity only to learn that last years winner had a total word count of 1000 words. What to do?

Without being able to write, I turned to obsessing over the Hunger Games instead and came upon this hilarious thread by Forever Young Adult. For anyone who is remotely interested in the great Peeta vs Gale debate, this is a must read.

I haven't finished Mockingjay yet, but I get the feeling that whatever happens (yes I have read every spoiler known to man) I will always remain:

Working Weekend & Writing Comp

In the spirit of biting off more than I can chew, I have decided to enter a little council short story writing competition.

The catch is that I have less than a month to write roughly 25,000 and put them together in a way that not only makes sense but is good enough to win. It’s a bit of a pipe dream at the moment because I have serious doubts about being able to complete it on time.

 

So, to keep me motivated, I’ve added a little word count calculator to my blog and worked out that if I can write 1000 words a day, I should be finished in time. What am I writing about? Well, the competition scope is very broad but lately I’ve been inspired by this pic that I have been using as my profile so maybe something about fairies or water sprites.

If I don’t win, maybe I will post the whole story on my blog…although if I don’t win it might not be something anyone wants to read. 

To top it all off a friend from work has asked me to read and edit his fantasy novel. Which might be a good thing because if I'm reading I don't have to write and if I'm not writing I won't be tempted to check my blog every 5 minutes. I think I've developed scrollingfingeritis.

It's gonna be a heck of a busy weekend. TGIF!