Time for an update on my current works in progress... or WIPs1. Runaway Choices - The story of the snarky 23 year old, Beck. Right now she is in Ireland (started the story at 35,000 feet on her way to London) near the Caisleán Bhaile Atha Troim or Castle Trim.
Written in first person. Word count 30,413, about half way there. Genre: Fantasy Chick Fiction
This is the one I have been working on lately, so if you follow #WIPFire on Twitter, these lines come from this WIP. Though, I have been known to throw out a Mandorian Prophecy line here and there ;)
2. Unseen Chronicles - Haven't touched it in a while. Mainly because I need some true stories to base the Chronicles off of. So if you have you have a true story you want to share with me of you overcoming tremendous odds (in any situation) and you feel like someone was "helping" you along the way.... give me a holler... I would like to fictionalize it... in a good way ;)
Written from an unseen perspective. Emotional, Spiritual... I have the Chronicles Ishmael, Asher, Stephen, Zahalon finished.. Jacob started, need 8(ish) more.
Word count around 16,000, need more stories! Genre: Paranormal Spiritual Religious Fiction(?)
3. Mandorian Prophecies Series - Rings of Time - First Book in series is completed, edited and I am actually writing the query now. I paused writing Runaway Choices for a bit while I edited the blasted thing, but I needed a break from the seemlessly never ending edits on that sucker and picked up on Choices last night. But it will be queried soon. That is a goal I intend NOT to break.
Complete at just under 75,000 words, it's YA Fantasy.
4. Mandorian Prophecies Series - Secrets of Mandor - Second book in series is complete and on the editors desk. I think last time I received an update it was 9% edited. Hoping it will be done in 2010 ;) No pressure Mr. Editor (who also doubles as my husband).
Complete at just under 78,000 words, before the edit and of course it's YA Fantasy as well.
5. Mandorian Prophecies - Unnamed at the moment - Third book in the series, needs to be plotted ;) And I have only written a bit of the beginning. I have to do chapter summaries of books 1 & 2 and make sure I tie up lose ends before I start, but I plan to complete it in 2010...
So if you kept tabs, I have three novels to complete in 2010... three! But I am pretty sure I can do it, well save the awesome possibility that I get picked up or come up with another idea that wont shut up until I write it... *shrug*
Yes, yes, I live in a Fantasy ;)
1. Shut up, she's 23 too? It really IS fictional me!!
ReplyDelete2. Umm yeah, I somehow survived a head-on collision with the interstate barrier at 70MPH in 5 o'clock traffic on a Sunday. The car in front of me swerved to miss a paper cup, it spooked me, and I overcorrected. I remember thinking "I'm going to die, and my last word is F---. So dissappointed in myself." My car slammed the barrier, flipped two and half times, landed on the hood, spun thrice, and finally came to a stop in the far left lane. As though it wasn't miracle enough I survived it, with only cuts on my pinky fingers, there JUST so happened to be a truck with three men stalled on the other side at the exact place my car had stopped spinning. They somehow managed to get across three lanes of 5 o'clock freeway traffic, rip open my car door (which was upside down), call 9aa, and talked to my mom when I couldn't. I cried for about two weeks and I'm pretty sold on the fact that God intervened bc He thought there was more I could do.
That story is all yours if you want it, it makes me cry too much to think about it. :) Hope it helps.
You're a machine. How do you do it all. How do I be just like you? Only in Florida? The commune life would be great for writing. Just saying.
ReplyDeleteWow. You've a lot of projects going, good lady. Best of luck with 'em all!
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ReplyDeleteSorry, my last comment wasn't very lucid. Let's see if I can do better this time! Haha! You can totally finish 3 books in one year. I could do it too, if I just sat down and took the time I needed to finish editing the ONE book I am working on now! But you are pretty much superwoman as far as I can tell, so I know you will do great!
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