Unexpected Twists In The Story...

I was writing in long hand last night, and this version of The Lines Of  Marsden: Living In Shadows, has taken a twist that I never expected - Doyle has gone missing, and Michael is about to lose it big time to get him back even if that means tearing apart the whole of Great Britain to do so - I pity the dumbarses that took him as Michael wrath has got everyone running scared.

With the help of Gabrial R I have found some awesome places which actually have Marsden in the name so I'm going to work a few of them into the story in future books. 

I have to admit... Living In Shadows, has been a long time in coming - even though I've had the story written for over a year  - it just didn't feel right to me, and hence the re write and now this direction seems to be in a better place... I took the advice from the editor Kimberly B on the first TLOM book and made it a bit more gutsier.

Fingers crossed you all think so as well, and  you all like where the story is headed... On that note I must away as I have some more writing to do.

I Signed A New Contract.

I signed the contract on Windblown Kisses: My Knight In Tarnished Armour today and it took me three goes to fill in the cover art request - because someone who I will not mention who has a name that sounds a hell of a lot like mine - kept deleting it instead of saving it. Now I remember how much I suck at the Silver editing process... but I will get better as the days and edits go along.

Renovation Updates!!!

<= This is how I am feeling today. Well,  I'll start off by saying that over the weekend we painted and built some shelves for the library. - which I have already filled with books  - Again I say I don't think my hubs realises just how many print books I own (been collecting them for over twenty years). So far I have only transferred about a third of my books and have run out of room he is building me more shelves next weekend when he gets home.

On the plus side I can finally see my desktop again in the next couple of days I hope to have it completely cleaned off and set up so that it suits both Em and myself. Em has told me I'm not allowed to clutter up her side with all my research clutter and book notes... I don't do that - a lot... So instead I told the hubs to build himself a desk out in his shed because I'm taking over his spot as well. But I have to say all the spare desk space on Em's end is calling to me I don't think she'll notice if I place about twenty spiral note books in her area... LOL.

PS: I have two days to get everything back into the office that I have spread out all over the kitchen and dining room. My mum get back from her month away on Wednesday, and I want to have the house tidy. Well that, and the hubs threatened to throw it all out if I didn't move it... and considering most of it is story ideas and notes - It would be better if I just moved it.

I Found It!!!

I found my missing CD - Placebo: Without you I'm Nothing. It was hidden among my numerous amount of David Bowie CDs... I was jumping round like a loon, and had both Em and the hubs looking at me like I had lost my ever living fricken mind.

We  are doing more renovations this weekend - I can tell you I will be fricken ecstatic when the renovations are over and done with.

Also I just passed 75K in The Lines of Marsden: Living In Shadows re write. I'm enjoying the knew track it has taken.

By The Way...

Turns out the insomnia paid off.. I finally finished the free read for the OZ mm Meet in October in Sydney. I also changed the name from Walk This Way to By The Way. It came in at 12,448. I have sent it off to my beta reader Yoda, then it will go to Cinder's O, to make sure I have no holes, and then to the committee for consideration.

So today I'm back onto writing The Lines of Marsden: Living in Shadows... weirdly, I'm really enjoying writing this story (or should that be re writing) seeing as I have the same script, just different characters and more action.

In my downtime, not that I have a lot of it... I have been writing in long hand... well while I sit there and write Emily has been watching NCIS from the beginning (Love Abbey - followed closely by McGee) I don't watch/listen to a lot of TV but that show is kinda cool.

This was just awesome...

Why is it?

Why is it the more I try and tidy the office up, the worse it seems to look? I have things stacked everywhere and the can't be put away until the shelves are put into the office/library extension (Books, CDs, & DVDs).

Though, I'm proud that I worked out how to hook up the printer all by myself. and have the cables run under the desk and not above it. So now my end of the office is looking pretty good - well mostly good - okay, okay, I still have tons of crap to do before I can see the whole desktop.

I think we will all be happy to know I got some sleep last night... six hours to be exact which is a miracle for me. And the biggest shocker is I didn't write one word on The Lines of Marsden Living in Shadows... and only 1K on Walk This Way (Which I am seriously thinking about changing the title on because it doesn't suit it now or maybe it does if the finish ends up where I want it to).

So today I am going to try and finish the last of the clean up on my side of the office, and the last 3 K on Walk This Way before I get off the computer this afternoon... I also have RL stuff to do; like washing the clothes and hanging them out to dry... I hate washing in winter.

Insomnia: Sleep, Who Needs It?

I swear the more I try to sleep - the worse it gets. I finally forced myself to go to bed at half past midnight and I was still lying there awake until 3 a.m. I was awake by 5:30 when Em started getting ready for work. Some night I'm lucky if I get 5 hours tops.

I hear you asking me what is keeping me up at nights? The answer is really simple - Michael-bloody-Marsden... more precisely I am up to the last four chapters in Living in Shadows and I'm trying to work out the sequence of events in those last four chapters. - I want to get it right...

It would be okay if the scene he is giving me was for this book but it isn't it's a scene in the beginning of book 4: The Trail Of Red Roses. For some reason I don't think the characters in The Lines Of Marsden are going to let me rest in between their books.

Poor Vlad, who runs the space inside my head where all my characters live; is run off his feet trying to keep everyone happy. Last night around 2 a.m. he was threatening to pack his possessions and leave - which would be okay, except he thinks Doyle from TLOM and Jhex from SOE are his possessions. So now I am being blackmailed by the people in my head - how is that fair?

On that note I am back to the computer and getting more words down to make people happy so they don't leave... Oh yeah, I'm so not under the command of my characters, but shhh, don't tell them I said that.