NewBook is still accelerating, or rather trying to, since I just cannot type any faster any longer without the machine (the one that’s living on dark chocolate and junk food on top of a healthy diet just to keep the fires going) breaking down. It’s *almost* like being 30 years or more younger and able Read More…
Author: Elizabeth
Writer, photographer, married, mother. Also native plants, wildlife, music, horses, curiosity unlimited, time limited. Pronouns she, her
Finish Line in Sight
This is the point at which, in the old days, would lead to two to four weeks of flat out writing all day and half the night, every day–no stopping, eating only what appeared at my side or (occasionally) on the kitchen table, as I made the final dash to the end of the first/rough Read More…
Yeah, It’s a Book. But Is It a Series?
Current-to-the-minute (but not for long) length of NewBook is 119,243 words. Still moving ahead strongly, though with some things that will be tightened and a few that will be cut, most likely. It now feels like it’s more than halfway through *this* part, but not through “the whole story.” Which means it’s definitely part of Read More…
One Hundred Thousand (and 688)
Words, that is. NewBook hit 100,000 words yesterday morning at about 1:15 am (I was so close I couldn’t just quit and go to be, in the 98-99 thousands, could I? No. Celebratory snippets: 1) Camwyn’s first meeting with Aesil M’dierra For the next two turns of the glass, he was by turns surprised, alarmed, Read More…
A Family Note: overlapping memories
In 1944, during WWII, when I was conceived around the time of the D-Day invasion, both my parents worked in defense industries near or in Chicago. Both were engineers, and I believe (not for sure in my father’s case) they were both liaison engineers for the Army Air Corps in aircraft factories. They had been Read More…
Reader Help Needed
I need some details from the Paladin’s Legacy books, and I’m missing a couple of them, so I can’t just yank them all off the shelf and search. I know I’m missing both Limits of Power and Crown of Renewal from the shelf. I’m not sure which book certain details are in, and they’re critical Read More…
“On the (plot) road again…”
Now over 39,000 words. Wow, this book wants to be written, so far. I need eyes that don’t tire from screen time and fingers (right hand in particular) that aren’t arthritic. But it’s wonderful to be on the road with a book that wants to GO down that road. That has dragged me away from Read More…
7 Days of Progress
More like 6 1/2 days if my finger-counting’s right. It’s noon on Saturday, July 2. Crossed the 35,000 frontier this morning. May or may not get to 36,000 by tonight. Yesterday didn’t make a lot of movement in wordage (some in the “notes”) because I drove into the city, bought some stuff at Dover, went Read More…
Emergency J6 Committee Hearing
Folks–if you’re able, get to Twitter or YouTube and watch this committee hearing. https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch or https://www.youtube.com/c/MeidasTouch Right now it’s an intro show they do, but in about 35 minutes it’ll be the committee hearing.
Progress
So, I’m officially started on another book. The next Vatta book having stalled in a way I just can’t seem to fix, my agent suggested doing something else, and what came to me was an idea from Paksworld. Once I started it, it took off (as did the Vatta book for the first part) but Read More…