Elburon

It seems Elburon is going to have to wait for a while longer. Another world and more characters have entered into my mind and are demanding my attention. It is in the realms of pure fantasy, so it my kick my desire to work in Elburon again once I have gotten myself to the point of needing a break from it, but it’s only a short series (Four novels and three short stories) It I may actually be able to complete it by the end of the summer, the rough draft part anyway. I have been thinking about Lily and Alaric lately, and how to fix their story so that it’s sellable. It’s odd, everyone who writes say they do it for themselves, but, we still do have to appeal to the masses, or what’s the point? It’s true that I have to love my story and my characters, but doesn’t other need to so the story can be read? I don’t know. It’s something I will ponder for a while longer.

This site is still in the creation phase, and I think to some extent, it always will be. Elburon was my first story and is the closest to my heart. I tend to liken a written manuscript to baring a child. Elburon is my oldest, and so, I have had made the most mistakes with it. Luckily, unlike with children, if the mistakes are too large, I can go back to the beginning and start writing it again. I have found that one of my niches in writing is romantic fantasy. I keep going back and forth about doing that with Elburon. I have paired everyone off, so it would seem to me an excellent idea, but then, I also love the fantasy genre as it is and I would love to see if I could make it a classic mainstay of the genre.

This novel is a labor of love. Inevitably I get back to it every year and work more on it. I am at the beginning of another series right now. It’s only four-months-old in the making. It has all of my writerly focus at the moment, but soon, I think it will be time for a break in the world of the Undying, and it will be time to get back to my beloved Elburon. I miss the world and the characters in it. I am egger to see what they have been doing while I was away.

It’s been a long time, but I have been working on another series. I’ve had a few major setbacks with this series, mainly because I think I have discovered that my writing nitch is Fantasy Romance, and not just fantasy. I will be reworking the plots and the characters over the next few months while I work on the Undying series. I love Elburon and all the characters I have created for it; I just have to figure out what I am going to do with it now. Maybe after the summer, I will be able to pick it back up again. I want to get this series written as soon as I can.

Okay the word counts are going to be a little wonky today, but that can’t be helped. I have a bunch of stuff written for the Alaric/Lily part of the story, and it needs to be included in the word counts, and the editing process I am about to under take. I feel confident that I can now edit book 1 correctly and not mess up the rest of the story. For a way to track other things, I am going to use chapters and pages. The editing won’t be tracked in the side bar, at least not until I figure out how to do it without it looking ugly or wonky. So, here are the word counts for today.

Daily Word Count: 43,402
Total Word Count: 92,165

Chapters Worked With: 22

Pages Edited: 0

Okay, so now I am coming to the end of book 1’s story for Niama/Raven and Morgan. Which means, I have a few ways I can go. I can either just keep working on them, or actually go back and start reworking a lot of what I already have for Lily and Alaric and start editing Morgan out, so he’s not in two places at once. Anyway, the word count isn’t as impressive as yesterdays was, but, I did get some stuff done. I just have to figure out how to track edits now, because Word Count doesn’t really work well for that, maybe, I should use page count for that. Anyone have any suggestions?

Daily Word Count:4,645
Project Word Count: 48,763

Okay, this is back logged, because, well, I have been really, really busy writing.

Daily word count: 13,976
Total Word count: 44,118

Morgan and Raven/Niama are going to kill me, I know they are, but I do love them.

Daily Word Count: 7,049
Total Word Count:30,151

Yay, I’m the woman. I got three chapters done today, so go me, go me, go me, lol. Yeah, I know, I am a geek, but I still got a lot done today.

Daily Word Count: 7,041
Total Word Count: 23,102

I got more done today. That makes me very happy, but I have a lot of things to do tomorrow, so, I might only get once chapter done.

Daily Word Count: 4,576
Total Word Counts: 16,061

It seems that Morgan and Raven really want to get their part of the story done. I am so excited. I got another two chapters on them done tonight, and I can’t wait to write the next one.

Daily word count: 4,661
Total word count: 11,485