2012-08-01

beren_writes: Loki smiling with the words "Sweet and innocent ... honestly" (Avengers - Loki sweet and innocent)
2012-08-01 10:28 am

I'm being interviewed today.

The lovely Leta Blake has an interview with me up for her Writer Wednesday today :). Check out the rest of her blog as well, it's a cracker.

Writer Wednesday: Natasha Duncan Drake of Wittegen Press


If you want to hear me confess how I didn't actually plan much of Cat's Call, this is the place to do it ;)
beren_writes: Adam Lambert with headphone apparently having an orgasm ;) (al - oh yeah!)
2012-08-01 10:32 am

Thank god, July is over ... *falls in a heap*

So the Giveaway Games is finally over and I'm knackered. During July I produced 101025 wds in 14 stories, two of which were double length.

What I have learned this month:
1) I can write a short story (up to 7.5K wds) in about four hours
2) I can write a novellete (7.5K - 17.5K wds) in one day
3) I can write a short novella (~20K wds) in two days
4) Sometimes I'd really rather not write at all, but I can make myself do it :P

I also now have formatting of ebooks down to a fine art ;).

It was quite a challenge, but also a lot of fun in places, but I'm glad it's over ;)

Now all Soph and I have to do is step back, then re-edit and reformat all the stories as anthologies. We're going to be adding forewords to them all, proper covers that reflect the genre and things like that.

For those who entered the competitions, Soph is sorting all that out at the moment.