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Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!

on 2020-11-08 06:56 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
It was a good day. I finished up on the fourth story, and started a new one. These guys are like peanuts. I can't stop.

a snippet

“Well, that’s the rub, inn’t? They don’t like my bloke and he doesn’t do well with my mum. So, my choice is to be with them or him.”

Sapphire nodded sadly. She wished she’d know hers. Suddenly her hands were clasped and she was abruptly hugged. She stiffened briefly, then relax.

“I’m sorry.” Donna released her. “You just looked so sad I couldn’t resist.”

“I’m glad you couldn’t. I never knew my parents. Not really. This is sometimes… hard.”

“None of that, now.” Donna brushed a tear from Sapphire’s face off with her mitten. “This is a time for hope and happiness.”

“Donna Noble, you are such an incredible lady.”

“Me? Naw, nothing special about me.”

on 2020-11-08 07:43 pm (UTC)
artemis10002000: Don't drink water... fish have sex in it (Jiang Cheng)
Posted by [personal profile] artemis10002000
Woah, you're making fantastic progress!

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on 2020-11-08 08:26 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [identity profile] elmey.livejournal.com
Wow, great progress! And another crossover? an intriguing one I think.

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on 2020-11-09 12:20 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] akane42me.livejournal.com
You're on a roll! Way to go!

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on 2020-11-08 07:43 pm (UTC)
artemis10002000: Don't drink water... fish have sex in it (Jiang Cheng)
Posted by [personal profile] artemis10002000
220 more words and I have a first draft for my exchange fic.

Don't know what I'll work on next, maybe some works in progress. No matter what, it will be nice to be working on something not-secret fic, which I can talk about here more openly.

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on 2020-11-08 08:27 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [identity profile] elmey.livejournal.com
Fantastic! that draft came together very smoothly.

Yes, pick something we see a bit of next!

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on 2020-11-08 09:46 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
Well done. Nothing like finishing off that first draft!

on 2020-11-09 12:20 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] akane42me.livejournal.com
Great progress! Congrats on the first draft!

on 2020-11-09 02:29 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com
Woo!

on 2020-11-08 07:44 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] ideealisme.livejournal.com
Hello folks, I know it's been a long, long while!

I published Lucia's War e-book in June this year, and the paperback in August. I did it myself but got it into several bookshops as well as Amazon. It's also getting some great feedback on Goodreads and Amazon. Sales are modest, but this time around it's just me, so am just entering it into as many prizes as possible and hopefully that will boost its profile.

During the summer and autumn I wrote nothing but a short story which I have submitted off to places. It's about being sued for defamation based on my personal experience of...being sued for defamation. Basically it's a "screw you" against Ireland's ridiculous libel laws.

Now I'm starting the second draft of a crime novel which I hope I can get traditionally published, simply because it's less work and expense! It's about a closeted trans cop and her Chinese colleague who have to unravel who murdered a beautiful, charismatic Anglo-Irish eco-activist. I might check in here from time to time :)

Hurrah Trump's out!

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on 2020-11-08 08:35 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [identity profile] elmey.livejournal.com
Hi again! I'm so glad to hear you're writing and that you did finish Lucia's story.

The crime story sounds fantastic, what intriguing characters you come up with. I hope you do check in now and then, I definitely want to hear more about this book.

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on 2020-11-08 09:46 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
Wow, great success - well done!

on 2020-11-08 09:49 pm (UTC)
artemis10002000: Don't drink water... fish have sex in it (Qin Su)
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You have had some very successful and productive months, keep up the good work and good luck with your book sales!

on 2020-11-09 12:25 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] akane42me.livejournal.com
Greetings! I was hoping you'd pop in here! It's so good to hear from you.

Hooray, you're working on a new novel! And a crime novel, no less! I hope you can share more about it here on Pico!

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on 2020-11-08 08:39 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [identity profile] elmey.livejournal.com
You've been pretty busy with other projects, even a half page of writing is a step forwards.

I like the easy rhythm of the teasing in the conversation here.

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on 2020-11-08 08:24 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [identity profile] elmey.livejournal.com
I've done nothing (as I'm sure is obvious) since Tuesday--too nervous, too much time spent checking for news, too many anxious tets and phone calls etc. Feel a lot better today, so opened up google docs to finally finish my ghost story. And I found that maybe ghosts and goblins don't fare all that well when you're in a happy frame of mind! But as we know, happiness is fleeting and I'll return to this anon ;) Instead I jotted some notes for a holiday story that's been rattling around as a vague idea for a while.

on 2020-11-08 09:48 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
Hopefully now you will be able to settle some and get some serious writing done!

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on 2020-11-08 10:59 pm (UTC)
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I meant to really settle to this today and get on with it properly, but instead I knitted and went for a walk in the rain and made a cake and... generally didn't. And I've got out of order, too, but never mind - so has the story!

having reached the ridge at Masuri on the edge of the Himalayas, where Everest had his home and base in the later stages of the survey, it jumps first to the author’s visit to the crumbling house, and then back to 1819

(I'm trying to catch up with myself, at least, but I'm still not doing very well at being conversational.)

on 2020-11-09 02:31 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com
I think a cake is wonderful thing.

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on 2020-11-08 11:36 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com
I have been very slack this first week - not only was I distracted by news domestic and international and RL, someone gave me Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies and I spent waaaaayyyy too much time distracting myself even further by reading them ALL.

My writing unit with uni starts this week so I will have to buckle down...

on 2020-11-09 02:32 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com
Reading is a great distraction.

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on 2020-11-09 12:19 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] akane42me.livejournal.com
Waaahhh, I fell off the pico wagon for two days. Yesterday we had company, real company! A bubble of two couples. Spent the day cleaning and preparing, and they left at 11 pm!
Today we went on a road trip, and wound up going for a hike in a state forest. We didn't get back until just a while ago.

So I spent a while compiling a Weekly Reader post, and now it's time for dinner. I will try my best to plonk away at my story tonight for a while, but I'm tired.
And I took a spill on some rocks, I'm a little sore, that's all, but it's enough to use as a flimsy excuse to just snuggle up and read after dinner LOL
I'm pathetic. Yup.

on 2020-11-09 02:33 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com
Uh oh. Hope you're not too sore.

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on 2020-11-09 02:33 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com
Just meeting notes today. :)

on 2020-11-09 12:37 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
Hey, that's something, though!

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on 2020-11-09 01:31 pm (UTC)
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on 2020-11-09 03:35 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] candidlily.livejournal.com
3,092 words today, mostly on Queliot week (which starts next Monday!) - guess I'll be participating after all. :)

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