I was a busy beaver on BALLAD this week. Finally I'm starting to like the look of that word count thingy. I'm like, yeah, July 1st, no problem baby. I'm suave. Me professional writer. I do polished drafts of novels in 90 days all the time.
And you know what, I'm actually sort of enjoying myself. It's mostly like any other time that I've written a novel, just with all the em, ah, and ers taken out. Oh, yeah, and very little evening TV. But other wise, I'm cool.
Oh right. And tomorrow (I'll remind you again) is my day for weekly fiction over at the new writing comm I'm a part of, Merry Sisters of Fate (
merry_fates ). Today there's a discussion of blood thirsty goblins over there and Tessa (
everflame ) did a piece of fiction on Wednesdays. And of course Brenna (
brennayovanoff ) on Monday.
So, just in case you're strapped for time and can't type up a proper comment for my fiction post tomorrow, I've done one that you can just copy and paste:
Oh Maggie. You are truly the Future Queen of America. If your prose were a sound, it would be the lead guitar from Audioslave. If your plotting were a girl, it would look like Salma Hayek. If your dialogue had wings, it would be one of those rare, endangered things like a condor that everyone wants but nobody has. I heart you. That's all.
Truly my benevolence stuns even me. I mean, seriously. I wrote you guys a great comment. Free. Gratis. Whoo.
I'm off to go vibrate with anticipation until tomorrow, when Big Novel Things are happening.