Anya Bast

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It’s early on Friday morning and I’m up having some coffee and worrying about my husband driving on icy country roads. My daughter’s occupational therapist will arrive in a couple hours and I need to clean my house! It’s a mess. See, right now, I have Book Brain. Like I wrote about in a previous blog post, it’s when the novel takes over and I can’t really think straight anymore. Cleaning? Bwahaha! Ain’t happening when I have Book Brain.

What’s good about having Book Brain right now is that I’m entering the middle section of Witch Heart. The middle is always the hardest part of the book for me to write. I have my strategies to get through it, and I usually revise the hell out of it before I write the end. But, still, the Dreaded Middle. Ugh. However, the pacing of this book is so that entering the middle isn’t that bad. So Book Brain right now is a very good thing. Hopefully it will carry me over the hump of the middle and start me down the slope toward the conclusion.

Last night I wrote about 2k on Witch Heart. That’s actually pretty good for me in one sitting. I also wrote 2k on a sooper seekrit story I don’t want to say anything about. So, 4k for the whole day. Not bad.

This morning I’m itching to get started on Witch Heart again. I have all kinds of things to write and I can’t wait. But, life, you know. She gets in the way.

No rain forever and now a flood. I tried to get my daughter off to her child care this morning, but we have washed out roads around my house. I get the day off! I’ll give you three guesses what I’m going to do with it. ;)

I didn’t blog about Sven this Sunday because we were trick or treating at the zoo. So, here’s my update, a little late and a little water logged.

7,015 / 90,000 (7.8%)

About 5k of that are words from last week. I also am revising The Darkest Kiss (yes, again) and I added just over 5k to that one. It makes for a total of 10,000 words toward my Sven goal.

10,000 / 70,000 (14.3%)

Are you sweating? If so, how are you doing?

The second round of Sweaty Seventy has started! Are you participating?

Or are you gearing up for NaNo?

I’m doing the SS because it gives me more time. I believe in quality over quantity. Some days I struggle all day long for 1,000 words, but those 1,000 words are exactly what I needed to write, where I needed to write them. They are worth more to me than 5,000 words that lead me in the wrong direction, you know?

Plus, SS conveniently starts at the time I’m beginning Witch Heart and runs just short of its deadline. So, SS it is.

How about you?