Apollymi ::||:: Dark Passion Play

During October and November, I wrote 98,000 words on Ash. To me, that's a pretty huge amount. Amaranth was about 80,000 words, while Verdant was about 90,000 words. Ash, however, isn't done yet. By my best guestimates, it has 15,000 to 20,000 words still to go... mainly because I have to write what I hate most: a fight scene. I DETEST writing fight scenes. This one snuck up on me.

I am, however, taking a break from writing on Ash for a little bit, since - you know - I've been marathoning it the last two months.

I have some ideas of things I want to work on, aside from fanfiction, during my break between Ash and Azure. We'll see what comes of it. If I do pursue and finish any of these ideas, I already have a press picked out. Recent readers should enjoy these: they're closer to what I've been writing on the fanfiction scene lately.

And I'm 3/4 of the way through White Night, the 9th book in The Dresden Files series. Reading Chapter Eight nearly made me sporfle curry, I was laughing so hard, but the whole damned book is just wonderful.

And now to get ready for an early day at work.

Well, I'm obviously back in Florida. I'm still not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, I had to come back to earn money. On the other hand, my sister can be a lazy mofo and not stay at a job more than two months. Why can't I? But on the other hand, I know money is good and, if I want to continue to have money and spend money, I can't be like my sister and steal, beg, and borrow money -- I have to earn it. But I really want to be at home or at my grandparents' right now.

This is a dilemma.

In other news, the wank that never ends has made CNN.com. Yep, CNN, late as usual. We've been following it on Fandom Wank since November. Because Cleolinda is cool like that.

I don't know about LJ. I'm still debating on LJ. I might do a post in the next week or two, and determine how much I want to stay there based on said post's responses. In other words, leave it in the hands of the LJ FList. Maybe with a pretty gigantic Friends Cut, I could be persuaded to return on a more full time basis. There is a great deal of venom that circulates that list. Not like here. Here, we have kitties.

Since I was at the grandparents' having fun and stuff all weekend, I got no writing done. In fact, I barely got any reading done. I barely finished Dead Beat, but now I'm finally started on Proven Guilty. My gods, that book is HUGE. Maybe it'll actually take me a bit to finish it.

And I've been typing for a bit over an hour (I keep getting distracted), so I'm going to shut up and bugger off now.

Ciao!