Archive for the '70 Days of Sweat' Category

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Sweating!

74000 / 100000 words. 74% done! lines of the day:I dropped the belt. It was a prop and I didn’t need it. Wasn’t going to use it. If I couldn’t leash and collar him with my words, then I didn’t deserve to have him. I also finished my rough draft of Layover and I’m just [...]

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
sweat sweat sweat

70500 / 100000 words. 71% done! line of the day: It bothered me, the mess of it. The slick-slidingness and smell of it, too. Ten pages a day. That’s what I’m doing. Ten pages a day. Day by day. And of course now I’m in the middle of a hot scene but because I didn’t [...]

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
today’s progress updated…

Wrote a few pages while watching Queer As Folk. Ok, so it was only a few, but c’mon. I kept getting distracted. 65500 / 100000 words. 66% done! line of the day: Being unable to speak is different than not having words. I’m tired. That is all. M

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Still sweating and the curse of the emoticon

62250 / 100000 words. 62% done! haven’t posted lately, so there it is. line of the day: I’d imagined the sender, my secret commander, crafting each word with the intent of forcing me one more step along a path so curved I couldn’t see the end. And on emoticons. It’s hard to judge someone’s tone [...]

Monday, March 10th, 2008
Envy and Negative Nellies

Oh, well, the glory couldn’t last. My days as number one on the Amazon.com bestseller list (Erotica, yo!) are passed. I’m hovering at number ten now. Dirty and Broken have dropped in rank and made it onto some lists, too…pulled along by Tempted I guess and not bad for two books a year old. I’ll [...]

Friday, March 7th, 2008
Sweaty McSweatster

54250 / 100000 words. 54% done! line of the day: Whatever had his garters snapping, it was going to make it impossible for him to get some work done until it was resolved. Good day today. 15 pages. Figured out what scenes I have left = about 130 (min) pages. Not sure if I’m going [...]

Friday, March 7th, 2008
Progress and the one true way

Didn’t update my 70 Days of Sweat progress yesterday…   50250 / 100000 words. 50% done! line of the day: I’d fainted twice in my life, and this didn’t feel like that, the gray-red haze taking over my vision, the ringing in my ears. Bad headache today, but I wanted to say this — the [...]

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
more sweat

48000 / 100000 words. 48% done! line of the day: I folded it shut as though it might change what I’d read, but as though they’d been written in flames, the words burned my fingers through the paper. also, I’m going by page count x 250 words to get my word count…the computer word count [...]

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Sweating again

45250 / 100000 words. 45% done! line of the day: There’s nothing potentially embarrassing about Monty Python and the Holy Grail.