...is not what I am supposed to be doing.

I am supposed to be revising BEAUTIFUL GHOSTS.

What I am actually doing is day-dreaming a new project into existence. So far a lot has changed since I first conceived of the 'London Book' as I've been calling it, at least until I come up with something resembling a real title. I even wrote 3 pages today, just to try out the voice of my main character and I love it! Very different from anything I've written so far, and I hope that in this case 'different' = Good. ;)

I've opened the BEAUTIFUL GHOSTS file now, like a good little writer. Onto Chapter 10 I go...

...finally!

It took me long enough. I needed to let the manuscript for BEAUTIFUL GHOSTS sit for a bit longer, but now I'm back into the swing of things and taking it one chapter at a time. Trying not to push too hard and just see how much I can get done in each session without putting too much pressure on myself. I'm currently on Chapter 5 of 20. This chapter needs some new material added, so will probably take me the rest of the day to complete.

At the same time, I'm doing lots of thinking about my next project which is shaping up to be a trilogy set in London. A contemporary fantasy firmly rooted in folklore - with my own twist on it, of course. ;)

Amazing, I know... But I am totally going to join Holly Lisle as she asks: Want to write a book with me? Do I want to write a book alongside Holly Lisle as she writes hers? Of course! Thanks to Marjorie Liu for the link.

Check out Holly's post, but basically this is not a challenge or something where you might be chastised in any way for not meeting targets. This is Holly offering herself as the 'rabbit' that you can keep pace with as you write your next/current project. She is aiming to write 250-500 words a day, 5 days a week. I know I was writing a lot more words than that when I was racing through the second half of BEAUTIFUL GHOSTS, but this new project is going to be slower. I can feel it in my bones. ;)

So the London book is looking like an adult book. I am wary of this, but I have to finish one adult ms just to see if I can. (The Norse project is still sitting with a couple of chapters done, and I don't know when I'll write that.) I still don't have a title for the Shiny!New! project, but sora_blue has declared it to be: Kaz's Awesome London Book: Now with 20% More Robots!* Which makes me smile. I'm going to start on Sunday, and just try to keep to a page or two a day, while also finshing up the revisions on BG.


*Please note, there are NO robots in this book. Chandra is a bit mad, but don't tell her I said that...