Saturday, April 21, 2012

This Is Not A Blog Post


Be right back, my dog is barking...

Okay then, I'm back. Sorry about that. Sometimes Mable likes to bark at walls. All very understandable, considering she has a brain the size of a pea. Before I continue I must warn you, as it says in the title, this is not a Blog post. This is me, wasting time.

Writers love wasting time. Oh we love it so much. We sit at our desks, stare at our screens, contemplate the plot points and issues we have to tackle, and then we go and make ourselves a nice cup of coffee. 

(Well, other writers do. I don't drink coffee. Instead of making myself coffee, I check on my dogs instead. The end result is the same. Time wasted, I mean. Not a cup of coffee.)

Why am I wasting time? Because I need a break from editing the book and I can't justify actually stopping work- so instead I delay work. It's all very scientific. 

For those of you paying attention, I finished the first draft of KOTW last week. My editor loves it. He reckons it's the best book so far. So now I'm doing the rewrite, which isn't so much a rewrite as an edit-

- hold on, cat needs to let in-

Right, where was I? The edit

-sorry, second cat popped up on the windowsill, and then the third, and then I had to feed them, so I've done that, and I'm back-

is going well and it's going smoothly, primarily because there are no real structural changes that need to be made to the story. I might have to get rid of a tiny little subplot here or there, but mostly it's plain sailing. Really, most of the work stems from the bits I missed out in the first place, such as descriptions and the beginnings and endings of chapters. The plan is to have this edited by Tuesday, then work on it some more the following week, and eventually hand it over, ready to be printed, by the second week of May. Ooooh deadlines... they're so funny...

But I haven't JUST been working. Oh no. I found some time to relax and have some fun, too. Last Saturday night I went to dinner with a very pretty lady (who hates when I use her name in this Blog so I won't use it) and then on Monday we drove up to Cork and visited a school that was composed primarily of insane children. It was all very odd, but a lot of fun. 

Since then, though, I've been back at work, doing my very best to ignore everything going on around me. There are so many things I have to do when this book is finished that I literally don't know where to start. For example, remember those competition winners I have to send out signed copies of Death Bringer to? Yeah, haven't sent them yet. They've been sitting on my kitchen table for MONTHS. The fact is, at this point I'm thinking why bother send them off at all? Since I've waited this long to do anything about it, why don't I wait a teensy bit longer? At some stage over the summer I'll be getting my box of brand new Kingdom of the Wicked books, so I may as well include a signed copy of THAT as well. 

So congratulations, competition winners, you'll probably be getting TWO signed books AND The End Of The World. Yay!

Sigh... I can't put it off any longer. Must get back to work. The dogs aren't barking and all the cats are in and fed. There is nothing left to waste my time with.

I think I might have to start drinking coffee...

4,831 comments:

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Inky Flame said...

hi nix

Inky Flame said...

im like soooo bored

Star Inkbright said...

Black and yellow black and yellow black and yellow . . .

Inky Flame said...

hey star

Star Inkbright said...

Hi people who came.

MY FANFIC NEEDS A NAME!

Nixion Strange said...

Im writing it out now Star

Lynxia Lost said...

Nix! *hugs*

Star Inkbright said...

Ooh that rhymes.

Nixion Strange said...

*hugs back*
Hi

Luciana said...

I don't even know what is happening, so...
Hello to anyone that has just got here, I guess....

*hangs upside-down, again*

Lynxia Lost said...

Call it um... Not a clue.

Inky Flame said...

going now

Star Inkbright said...

How 'bout: "Die or Face the Consequences"?

Nixion Strange said...

Oh, a name

You need an idea about the story line for a title

Nixion Strange said...

Bye Chloe

Nixion Strange said...

which fan-fic? I forget Star...

Lynxia Lost said...

Bye Chloe.

I always use quotes as my title.

Gabriel said...

Bye Chloe.

Nixion Strange said...

Hey, if any of you still read Nix and Mist, cahpter 6 is up

http://mistandnixseries.blogspot.com.au/

Lynxia Lost said...

I'll have to read it later. My phone won't let me load any blog other than this one...

Nixion Strange said...

Damn. I gotta go. I'll try and get on tomorrow
Bye!
*hugs Lynxia and disappears in a cloud of smoke*

Star Inkbright said...

ICH LESE ES!!!

I already read it and commented. I think.

The blog post was about Rebellion nix, which ist NICHT fanfic. The fanfic is . . . Uh . . . Well, it's just called "the fanfic" at the mo.

Und, i replied to you, plus i copied my reply (coz i'm nice like that) und i saaaaaaid:

And you call ME confusing?

I like the energy thing. The "one person" probably won't work, but the "knowing more about energy" might do . . . *is thinking hard about it*

The energy thing WILL have some connection though.

No on the name, sorry, but names are hard:(

Which is obviously why i'm asking for one.

Luciana said...

Bye, Nix.

Star Inkbright said...

May the fours be with you nix!

Oh, goldengoddammit, you already read it.

Lynxia Lost said...

*hugs back* Bye Nix!

Luciana said...

You can hit you can miss but it's all the same
You tried your best, it's good enough
Sometimes the race will take too much

Do you have what it takes to be number one?
The only one who can answer that is you
If you can overcome

Lift your head, lift your eyes to see the sun is shining through
The morning brings a greater hope
If you let it carry you

If your doubt is bringing you down
I hope you know how amazing you are
Everybody knows you tried
Everybody knows it's all right

You get some right, you get some wrong
Don't let anybody tell you that you can't be strong
When you fall down, when you get up
All you have to do is try and you will see
That someday you truly will succeed

Life is harder if you face it with an air of gloom
Tomorrow is a brighter day
The darkness will be over soon

In this life, there's a balance that we have to strike
There are times when no one's on your side
And you don't know where to hide

If your doubt is bringing you down
I hope you know how wonderful you are
Everybody knows you tried
Everybody knows it's all right

You get some right, you get some wrong
Don't let anybody tell you that you can't be strong
When you fall down, when you get up
All you have to do is try and you will see
That someday you truly will succeed

The past is the past is the past
It's the days that you never get back
It's the past
There's no use in dwelling on what you couldn't have had
The past is the past is the past
Look ahead to the future you'll have

And everybody wins sometimes
Everybody knows you lose some

You get some right, you get some wrong
Don't let anybody tell you that you can't be strong
When you fall down, when you get up
All you have to do is try again and see
You have what it takes to be
Number one if you will just believe

Star Inkbright said...

GOLDENGODDAMMIT IST ONE OF MY LIEBLINGSWORDS!

Fav words for everyday use:

Ausgezeichnet
Goldengoddammit
Entschuldigung

*looks at Lieblingswords* they're all sehr long.

Star Inkbright said...

Ja, ich habe ein Lieblingswords list, ich bin so sad:)

Luciana said...

It's such a pretty song and cheers me up when I'm like this. :'3

Luciana said...

I've never been on the last page...I've only just realised.

Luciana said...

STAY STRONG AND BE BRAVE. :'3

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