Story Submitted, and the Rest of My Life

It's been a full week - writing, editing, getting caught up from being gone all weekend. No reading really, no movies til tonight. Watching Iron Man right now - what cool devices! We watched Speed Racer earlier this evening as a family. Oh wait! I did watch Miracle Match earlier in the week - a soccer movie.

Co-op was today - going well. Will post on that at Cornerstone - I do post at least two times there every week, so if you aren't checking it, you may want to do so.

Weather was gorgeous yesterday and today!

House is all primered white now - going to start on yellow tomorrow. I will probably help some now that the story is written.

Let's see - hay ride tomorrow evening at Bob's family's farm. Soccer games in the AM; they are at different times so I can coach Suzy's and then watch James play.

I finished the story and submitted it for publication today. Please pray they buy it!

I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of anything else just yet. Oh, except I am getting pretty good at WordTwist on facebook, so come there and play with me!

Story Edited, Ready at 14,320

I finished editing the Egypt story tonight. A dear friend read it and gave me some feedback. I made a few more changes and am just about ready to send it off. I need a title and have to write a cover letter.

The final word count - 14,320. Awesome! Still under 15,000!

Oops, it's 3:00 AM. Dang.

Don't think tomorrow (whoops, that would be today!) is going to be an early-start day! ROFL

We also have to do our budget for Financial Peace class sometime tomorrow. Oh joy.

Off to bed now. Perchance to dream. About pharaohs?

9651

Today's word count is 2300 words!
Total word count is 9651.

I haven't even reached the main conflict yet! Augh!

Tomorrow we go to the Renaissance Festival. I will write in the evening and attempt to get 2000 words, but my goal for the week was 10,000 and I am nearly there now! Go me!

Since the story is not complete, however, I will need to keep writing. I would like to still be done by Monday.

I have three Netflix movies to watch and I have been writing instead. Am I crazy?

7351

I am now at 7351 words, which puts my Wednesday Word Count at 2072. I would estimate the story is half done, so I will probably end somewhere around 15,000 words instead of the lower estimate of 10,000. We shall see. I will write 2000 words a day until it is done.

The Nature Sounds radio is perfect for this novella - ancient sounding music, water sounds, nature sounds, some of the kinds of music you would imagine as movie soundtrack music. No lyrics, no rhythm to most of it. Usually very peaceful.

I am finding out more about Ancient Egypt every day. Today I researched briefly what kind of furniture would be in a Pharaoh's home, what kinds of plants would grow in his garden and which of those would smell sweet, what jewelry a Middle Kingdom royal couple would wear, and I am sure other things I've assimilated already.

Tonight was our first Financial Peace University class and we enjoyed it. The two younger kids had Pioneer Club, Emily helped in the nursery, and David ran the computer for the club. (Not quite sure what that entails.)

The house painting is moving along, but it looks like the yellow won't cover well over the grey - kind of what we were expecting, but hoping it wouldn't be a problem. So, we'll go tomorrow and get some primer to lighten up the grey before we paint yellow over it.

Miscounted and WORD COUNT 5279

Ooh, I miscounted! I forgot I had written in two separate sections of my notebook today because I had written a scene to insert at the beginning of my story. So I had 7 pages in one place and SIX MORE PAGES in another. So, I wrote THIRTEEN notebook pages today.

Today's word count - 2559
Total word count - 5279

Am I good or what? LOL

So, this story is either a third or one half done, depending on how long it ends up. I think I am right on target with my outline and with the rising action.

Tomorrow I don't go anywhere in the afternoon, so I should be able to write my 2000 words with no problem.

I have a NaNoWriMo idea too. YAY!

Writing Progress - 2720

2720 words done on the Ancient Egyptian novella. Met my goal for today of 2000 words.

I've got my outline and my writing goals of 2000 words per day this week should get me to the end of the story by the weekend. Then I can edit and send it off next week!

Found a Pandora station that allows me to block out the ambient noise here and still allows me to THINK. lol
Nature Sounds Radio
(hope that link works - sorry, if you have dialup, I don't think you'll be able to use Pandora.)

Did you know that ancient Egyptian men usually shaved all their hair, but when they were in mourning, they let their hair grow? I'm uncertain as to whether the women also did this. But it comes in handy for my story.

I have to force myself to go beyond just reading and reading and reading about Ancient Egypt. I could do that for hours. lol I still need to do some research on Pharaonic names - they had at least 5 names - which do we use when???

Writing About Egypt Now

Lisa, forever

Ok, slight change of plans. I found out about a writing opportunity of 10,000-15,000 words and so I'm going to do that before working on any other writing. It's a historical romance that would be published by a major publisher as an ebook. I've chosen to set mine (where else but) in Ancient Egypt.

Since I was able to write 50,000 words in one month, I think I ought to be able to bang out 10,000 words in a week or two and then take a few days to edit. Then I'll try submitting this directly to the publisher.

Today I did a little research into which part of Ancient Egyptian history would be the proper setting. (You did know that the Ancient Egyptian culture flourished for about 3000 years, right? It needed a bit of narrowing down.) I've chosen the Middle Kingdom and probably the time of a pharaoh named Senusret II.

I also did some research into dress, names, and other cultural issues. I outlined my story (novella, or whatever) - the basic plotline. I've written about 600 words of it so far.

I'd have written more, but I hurt my hand by banging it into a doorframe and it hurt quite a bit earlier. I kept an icepack for a while and it feels better now - at least somewhat. Of course, it's my right hand. I'll probably put ice on it more tonight, in hopes that tomorrow it'll feel just fine. I want to get this story written!