Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 9
Yesterday was one of those days when word count obsessions and staying ahead of schedule paid off massively, as I spent most of Friday on the sofa, producing 0 words. It happens. I won’t say I didn’t experience any guilt for not even trying to write a single word, but that’s just how it is sometimes. […]
Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 8
Today was not as heroic as yesterday, but well within expectations. Everything is still on schedule and my manuscript has now reached 46.000 words. This is a short novel (the goal is 60.000 words) so I can already smell the finish line, which doesn’t help with my focus. If, however, I have two good writing […]
Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 7
The paperbacks of French Kissing: Season Two finally arrived today. (They were on a slow boat to HK, I think.) Anyway… I broke my word count record again today! I’m calling it an 8k day, but officially I wrote 7883 words, bringing my manuscript to 40.000 words. I’m super happy with this, even though I’m […]
Snippet from ‘Fit for Forty’
With all the blogging about writing Release The Stars, I haven’t yet posted a snippet from my story Fit for Forty, out now in Ylva’s erotica anthology Don’t Be Shy. This story is set on a hike, and the narrator is not having the best time of her life, until they reach the top… 😉 When […]
Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 6
First things first. The lovely Clare Lydon interviewed me for the Lesbian Book Club podcast, and you can listen to our chat here >> The radio show we recorded yesterday (it’s called The Sex Crystals) was really great fun. It ended up being more about lesbian sex than lesbian erotic literature (even though they made […]
Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 5
While I would say that my #1 piece of advice to every writer is: Stay Off The Internet, Damn It! I have to admit that today I didn’t follow my own advice. I cracked around 10 and checked my e-mails and Twitter (and Facebook…) Fortunately, a small fix was enough to get me going again […]
Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 4
Would it be rude to just upload a picture of ‘my numbers’? 😉 I woke up at 4 this morning, completely obsessed with this story. I stayed in bed brainstorming for another hour, trying to remember my ideas by attaching them to easy to remember words or abbreviations like SMS (which stood for strap-on, manly […]
Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 3
My goal for today was to bring my manuscript to 14.000 words, which I did… to the exact word. 😉 I’m now 2000 words ahead of schedule, which is doubly excellent because it means I can skip Monday morning’s session and go to the office all day to take care of all sorts of publishing tasks for Ladylit. […]
Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 2
I’m writing this in a slightly less frazzled state than I was in when I wrote my first blog post about Release The Stars. The first day is always such a huge rush. Today was mostly about bringing my feet back to the ground. (I might have needed that.) Because today is a public holiday in Hong Kong, I […]
Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 1
So, as promised I will be keeping a public diary of writing the first draft of my new novel, first dubbed ‘The Hollywood Novel’, but now (tentatively) titled Release The Stars. I was awake at 5.30 this morning because I was so excited to start I couldn’t sleep anymore. This story has been brewing in […]