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A milestone I recently reached in my book I have been working on in my book is 20,000 words, which was really big for me! :D
📚 Alana (professional book nerd) ✝️ wrote: "A milestone I recently reached in my book I have been working on in my book is 20,000 words, which was really big for me! :D"Congratulations! What genre? Anything you'd care to say about it? (Sometimes writers don't like to talk much about their works in progress.)
Oh, sorry Dale, I missed your message! Its a fantasy book :D I am very excited about it, and Hunter is right, I am a bit obsessive about my book ;)
Here is the summary:
Everyone talks to sirens who cursed themselves hundreds of heard ago, right?
Aphrodite is just like any other siren; rebelling against her parents like any normal kid.
It doesn't have any major consequences until she meets handsome siren Cesar. Together, they discover her ability to hear sea creatures–and read minds.
Hearing thoughts isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially when the one who saved you without your knowledge thinks very romantic thoughts…
And then what happens when you fall in love just in time to be cursed? Then have to learn who you are again. After all of that, the secrets that have been revealed might just destroy worlds…
Worlds that have been hidden until now, sirens that are buried, jewels wielding unimaginable power, fighting dark magic with the love of your life? That’s not what Aphrodite was hoping for as a young rebellious explorer, however, she has been thrown in the deep end. Will she swim and fight the tides of fate? Or will she drown in the depths of destiny….
Message in a Bottle here is the link to it on goodreads, it needs updating, but I still have not been able to get into my author profile :(
The main issue I am running into with my book right now is motivation 😥
📚 Alana (professional book nerd) ✝️ wrote: "Oh, sorry Dale, I missed your message! Its a fantasy book :D I am very excited about it, and Hunter is right, I am a bit obsessive about my book ;) "
No problem. I suppose most of us can be a bit obsessive about our books. ;-) Sounds like an interesting tale.
Where are you in the process right now, and what's the motivation problem?
I’m still writing, rewriting chapters, and I’m just not motivated to write
Random update: I'm almost at 16,000 words in my book!
Sometimes the motivation can flag. Sometimes you just need time to do something else for a bit. Still, 16,000 words is a strong start. I'm up to 8,000 on Rooftop Sonata. I thought it would go faster, but so far I've only been able to get a small amount down at any one sitting.
I'll start. Since 2019, I've been working on a novel titles Penitence. It's been a bear of a project, but two weeks ago I finished the first draft. The novel has its roots in a short story I wrote back in 1991 about a . . . get this . . . pandemic. But it's a pandemic of a different sort. The disease doesn't kill people. It makes them go violently insane, so everyone is killing each other or themselves. The story line revolves around two survivors who flee New York City and end up on the other side of the country, encountering various manifestations of the disease as they travel.
Having finished the first draft, I've set it aside for a bit and am now working on a humorous crime caper titled Rooftop Sonata. It will be my second Bernard and Melody caper, following Weasel Words. Bernard and Melody Earls are a husband-and-wife team of thieves who rob from the rich and give to themselves. This time, their target is the manuscript of an opera by German composer Richard Wagner that was believed to have been destroyed in Hitler's bunker at the end of World War II. But maybe someone got it out of Germany and now has it stashed in a private collection...
I also have a science fiction short story appearing online on Sci-Fi Shorts (https://www.scifishorts.co/) next Monday, February 5th. Titled "Off the Deep End," it deals with a guy who spots something odd in the deep end of his swimming pool while he's trying to repair a glitch in his solar roof.