Book Basket/New Year's Stuff

[j_cheney]

I've got 3 books completed, a fourth started, and one I've decided to cast aside (under the 'life's too short to put up with several hundred pages of this' clause). One of the new ones arrived in the mail and is safely ensconced in the basket.

I'll get back to writing today, and I'm going back to working on the sequel to "Dreaming Death". I'm only abut 300 pages in, and it begins to look frighteningly like a 700 pager....must cut words!! (OR find a way to divide it neatly into two books, which IS doable, but would unabashedly mean duology....of which I'm not fond). This means I have to sit down and re-read everything I've written, since I haven't actually touched it in almost a year.

I do intend to finish "Devil in the Details" this year as well, but I'll put it aside for a bit. It will probably be the shortest novel I've written so far, possibly coming in at less than 100K.

displacedtexan and I decided to celebrate New Year's with Sydney and Melborne again, so it's done and over with (at 8AM). No further need to party for us. (Clearly, we aren't party animals)

Comments

[keesa-renee.livejournal.com]

War and Peace falls into that "Life's too short..." category for me.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Yeah...cliff's notes will do for me on that one!

[jkratman.livejournal.com]

My goodness, nice output!

Happy New Year.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Well, when I get down to serious reading, I'm a pretty fast reader....it's just making the time for it that's hard.

[jkratman.livejournal.com]

I'm such a dope sometimes....I hadn't seen your earlier "book basket" posts. I'd assumed you'd written three novels and given up on another.

Duh. Sorry.

Still nicely done!

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that would be impressive!

[displacedtexan.livejournal.com]

Well, I celebrated again with London whilst at the gym. Perhaps we can both celebrate again with Greenland.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

OK, but I'm not doing Central time....

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

No way am I staying up until midnight.


Unless I'm reading a good book.

Which I might be.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Nope, not even for that....

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

I might stay up, but we're not going out. Got colds.
Happy New Year!

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

You too!