Grea Alexander > Recent Status Updates

20,600ish words in.

Eunuch Kwang's revenge is going to plan...or is it?

Kenji and Xian, having fallen into Eunuch Kwang's trap, now find themselves in an unexpected situation - one that has as much potential to bring them together as to tear them apart.

I took off some time for the holiday but am officially back to work as of now.

Just what was Lady Lai doing in that creepy, abandoned wing of the palace anyway?

Are Xian and Kenji really as good at hiding their dirty little secrets as they once believed?

And last but not least, we have Lady Soung, Lord Choi & Eunuch Kwang's secrets and a hidden loophole that will change everything for ever.

About 10,300K words in on the 1st draft.

I write pretty fast when I decide to/am able buckle down and focus - as much as 5,000+ words in a day.

Unfortunately, I often have real life getting in the way. (grin)

About 5K words in on the 1st draft - in chapters, broken bits and pieces as the initial shape of the story begins to form.

Unfortunately and quite tragically, I got caught up with confirming a few things yesterday then fell down the Youtube rabbit hole. (laugh)

Exploring my world the whole week to have some peace and quiet before school ends for the summer then back to work Saturday.

Es fin and clocking in at over 70,000 words. Yay me!

Cheers!

Oh my brain, my brain, my brain! (laugh)

I am getting WAY too involved in this torrid, angsty story and rather than wrapping it up, even more chapters have managed to worm their way in!

Oh but they are JUICY! So, so juicy and I thus I simply can not resist. Unfortunately, this is going to put me behind another 2 weeks.

Ok, So I'm back at work...AGAIN and likely to finish this month (though I'll have to let it marinate for a couple of weeks afterwards for the purposes of editing and deciding if I like it as is).

8x11.5 pages.

This has been a super frustrating week as I've severely injured my right index finger. Typing (pecking) is slow, frustrating and full of typos. In short, my typing can't keep up with my brain and handwriting is impossible and illegible in this finger splint. (sad face)

Progress has ground to a halt.

32,334 words as of today and still growing.

I am currently 17,889 words in (according to Word Count). I am also quite enjoying the writing of this novel.

That being said, it will likely be completed and released WAY before November (assuming no unforeseen setbacks as I am a fairly quick writer when I focus on a work).

Will this be a monster novel like the Rebellion books were?

I don't know.

I simply make each book as long as it needs to be.

I am currently 17,889 words in (according to Word Count). I am also quite enjoying the writing of this novel.

That being said, it will likely be completed and released WAY before November (assuming no unforeseen setbacks as I am a fairly quick writer when I focus on a work).

Will this be a monster novel like the Rebellion books were?

I don't know.

I simply make each book as long as it needs to be.

About 80% more to write as of right now!

Yes, I've been working on this book.

However, since I've been hanging out in horror/fantasy land for quite a while now and I have some directional considerations I'm still working on with this series, I've decided to switch gears and work on Sedition instead - whose entire series is largely written in my head.

However, I plan to get back to this story and get it out this year.

Ok. So I've been hanging out in horror/fantasy land for quite a while now.

As I have some directional considerations I'm still working on with The Pack 2, I've decided to switch gears and work on this book instead - whose entire series is largely written in my head.

Wow. It's been a LONG time. I plan to start working on this this week.

Es Fin!

Now I need to let it stew for awhile before I reread and edit. However, I'm extremely happy with it.

It is a fitting and most poetic end to my creepy, campy little creation.

2 more chapters to go!

I've finally started back writing again.

Being a kind of all or nothing girl, I've only 3 more chapters until it's finished.

Maybe within the next week I'll do them. Maybe not.

Whatever the case, Its a week or so of letting it stew before I reread it and edit.

Ok. So there has been a TON going on in the real world. Though I wish I was at a level as an author where all I had to do was write and collect royalties, I'm nowhere near that point.

Though this title is finished in my brain, it's unlikely I will have it ready for release until February or March.

Always writing even when I'm not actually writing.

Grea.

Break time!

One of the things that makes my characters' thoughts and feelings so realistic is that I actually have to feel them myself to write them. It's like my characters are real people reacting to situations & I see/feel everything from their point of view.

This can be challenging and I have to be in the right mood/frame of mind to go there - especially to some of the darker places.Today is such a day

Back at work!

Hopefully another week or two before the 1st draft is completed.

All's quiet outside today - save the rush of water that flows over the small rock waterfall that terminates at the koi pond.

I'd say maybe another 10-15 more chapters to go.

I hope. (gulp)

Well, this morning, just as I was about to start work, every lawn worker in the area decided to do the same.

So now there are 200 leaf blowers, 150 lawnmowers & 59 edgers going full blast right about now - which has excited the cicada who in turn added their agitated chorus to the lawn care orchestra.

Ah, what can you do? (laugh) Besides have a drink (nonalcoholic of course) and screw around online.

Ok.

I have a MASSIVE shaded balcony (about the size of some Houston area 1 bed room apartment living rooms) that overlooks a small Koi pond and a great, sprawling oak that has to be a couple of years old.

Needless to say, I LOVE to sit on said balcony and write.

The aforementioned scene will not get its own chapter, after all.

I just have too much I want to put into this book as it stands - even without it.

I will say though that I think I might be having much too much fun with this final installment.

The petty, malicious, backstabbing rivalry and constant one-upmanship of the two griffins is a hoot!

Hhhmmm.

I have one scene that has me a bit vexed. I can't seem to decide on if it would add more to the story if I wrote it out as its own chapter or if Acadea merely referred to it in passing in a subsequent chapter.

Decisions. Decisions.

On the road again...