And the verdict is...?

Well, it was a good night.  I have almost finished the first of the pieces I am writing for the Keepsakes project and got almost 1800 words of the second one written.  All in all a good night!  I'm starting to get back into the swing of things and am getting my writing mojo back.  It took long enough!!!

Settling in for the night....

Well, I have the night to myself and have decided to make the most of it!  I have settled down with Indian food, chips and Coke and am going to get some writing done!

My Goals tonight are as follows:

1. Finish one of the small pieces I have started for the Keepsake Project (about 800 words to go) and possibly start on the second (not started yet).
2. Eat lots of junk food, stay up a lot later than I should and sit on my bum a lot! ;)
3. Stare off into the night thoughtfully waiting for inspiration.
4. Edit another chapter or two of "Blood Lust" as I need to have that pretty much finished so I can start planning the sequel "A History of Bloodshed" for NaNoWriMo this year.

I have loaded my iPad with lots of music from my favourite movies to provide inspiration and have fully charged the laptop.  I will let you all know how much I have progressed in the morning, but for now I am turning off the WiFi so I'm not tempted to surf the Net and am going to get stuck into things.

Let the writing begin!

Always Procrastinating!!!

I've decided I like designing covers of books too much!  I need to write more often!

I am a naughty girl! I should have taken the opportunity presented to me last night to do some writing, but instead I stayed up till all hours designing book covers for books that have not even been written yet! Talk about jumping the gun!  The only thing I can say in my defence is that it helps with the visualisation of my goal.  I can see the final product.  All I have to do is get there!

Here we go!

One of my friends posted this on my Facebook
and got me thinking about finally finishing off
one of the many books I've either planned or started!

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to the first post on my blog!

I was told that the best way to make yourself accountable for your writing is to make it public knowledge!  What better way than to blog about my novels??? I need to keep myself on track so that I can finally finish something!

During NaNoWriMo I wrote the first draft of "Blood Lust" - 60,000+ words in a month! So I know that I can do it, I just have to keep myself on task....

One of my friends is a published author of three children's books and has had stories published in a few anthologies.  She's given me many words of advice and I know that I am the only one that can make my dreams of finishing and publishing one of these books a reality.  So, I've made myself accountable and am going to start ripping these characters and stories out of my mind.  I have another 1-2 dreams a week that would make wonderful novels, but have so many half-completed ideas that there is no room for them.

So, here is my "To Do" List:

1. Edit "Blood Lust" so that I can start work on the sequel "A History of Blood Shed" for this years NaNoWriMo Challenge.
2. Finish off the two short pieces that I am writing for the Keepsakes Project.  These two stories are going to form a part of both the Blood Lust series and The Legacy Books.  It makes sense to adapt sections of these stories to be standalone pieces, but also chapters in the books I have to write.
3. Continue work on what I think will be my Opus; The  Legacy Books.  I'm well on my way to completing the first book "The Tin Soldier", but have been AWOL from writing for over 6 months and need to get back into the groove.  I would really like to have this book finished ASAP as I believe it could be a great book to be released in time for the 100 year anniversary of ANZAC Day.  "The Tin Soldier" is about a Anzac soldier that fell in Bullecourt, France and a young, idealistic teachers struggle to find his final resting place.

Please check out the links on the right hand side of the blog - they will link you to a page about each of my projects.  I will post excerpts and notes about what is going on with each of the projects.  As this is a brand new Blog, there may not be anything there, but rest assured - I am working on it!

Lastly, thank you for reading this and for keeping me accountable.  I need to finish these books!

Kylie. xxx