Thursday, October 22, 2015

80,000 words and some HORROR

I have now crossed the 80,000 word mark in Desolation. You know what that means?

It's a proper book now.

Demon Road was a little over 121,000. I had wanted it to be 80,000, which is roughly the size of Dark Days. Obviously, that didn't happen. But I am DETERMINED that Desolation be of a  more manageable size. It'll probably end up somewhere around the 100,000 mark.

Writing a book can be a struggle. It's just so happened that in the writing of this one, every time I started to flow, and write LOTS, I had to go off on tour or do festivals or get interrupted for a multitude of reasons. It's very hard to build up any kind of rhythm when your writing schedule is kinda messed up.

But I'm flowing now. I want to get this latest draft off to my editor on Monday, because on Tuesday I'm off on holiday to Disneyworld and Universal Studios.

For Halloween.

Ooooooh this is gonna be my kind of holiday. By day, we go to Magic Kingdom, and go on rides and visit Harry Potter world and just have good, nice lovely fun...

But at night...

Universal Studios over Halloween has the most terrifying horror experiences on offer, and I will be going and subjecting my girlfriend to the ordeal. I'm going to tweet about it. I'm going to take videos. You may see me scream.

But it shall be a manly scream. A WAR CRY.

And then I'll run away and leave Laura to face this guy on her own.



Gonna be FUN.




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Edward Fletcher said...

Ooh hedgehogs

Inky Flame said...

(Cuties)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(*facepalms and laughs* Chloe!)

Inky Flame said...

(What?!)

Tanya Halcyon (Kas) said...

(Hello?)

Custard and Cream said...

Sup

Custard and Cream said...

I'm on the last episode of season 1 of Supernatural :D

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

It's Harry Potter Weekend (aka last day when Deathly Hallows Part 2 is on) so I took a break for Deathly Hallows :D

Made it to episode 7 before I was so exhausted I couldn't pay attention.

Custard and Cream said...

Gotta love Harry Potter :)

I've not been feeling well so I've been sitting watching it like all day haha

Kai The Immortal said...

(just passed the page you must hate crunchy yet soft zaf)

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

I what? *confused*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

You don't make a very satisfying snack.

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

No I don't think I would

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Screwed up

Heals one kills the other.....

Oh my god that was sick! But sooo good

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(So one of the cats has gone missing, the one who hates the outdoors.
My art homework is no where near finished and I only have a week left to draw a life sized person.
Few of my friends are talking to me, and when they do I'm almost always hostile towards them.
I'm not sleeping well either, I keep having bad dreams and restless nights.)

Chione Asahina said...

Jai, unfortunatly this is what being a teenager is.
-hugs tightly-
You can do it sid.

Bruadar Cadail said...

you might want to try staying off the computer or electronics late at night. It overstimulates the brain, and makes it harder to sleep. Down tools at 8, and try to relax.

Inky Flame said...

(*waves to anyone*)

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

The thing to remember about life-sized portraits is that if you're a millimeter off, its considerably less of a big deal than it would be if your portrait was, say, ten centimeters tall.

Do you have any specific materials you have to use? 'Cause it took me about a week to get the boards for the background set up for my life-sized self-portrait last winter. I also had to use at least three different materials. I had much more time though.

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

*it's

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Then there's me who could never draw life sized.

Inky Flame said...

(I can only draw anime characters)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(I have the materials I need, I'm doing a pen portrait on cloth..)

Inky Flame said...

(*wishes to be good at art*)

Edward Fletcher said...

You are an amazing artist Chloe!!!!!!!

*departs again*

Inky Flame said...

(Nawwww thanks)

Inky Flame said...

(*sighs* I want a conversation with someone on here
But alas I don't know what about or where anyone is...)

Custard and Cream said...

My sister put a wash on and there was some white stuff including my new white doctor who top and a new, not previously washed, bright pink towel (with my name on it which is really cute) so now my doctor who top has a lovely slight pink tinge to it.... Great....

Feraaaa32 said...

'elo

Inky Flame said...

(PEOPLE)

Inky Flame said...

(*cries* I miss everyone who comes on here!)

Kai The Immortal said...

(hey Chloe)

Inky Flame said...

(Hi K
How are you?)

Feraaaa32 said...

hi bitch (k) :P

Inky Flame said...

(Hello FERA
How are you?)

Kai The Immortal said...

(I'm good, wbu?

And you F ?

:P you two have a good Christmas?)

Feraaaa32 said...

hi chloe, k. I've been getting quite used to the dark :P

umm yeah, i suppose xmas was not bad ^_^

Inky Flame said...

(Christmas was okay
I got cool presents
Just wish I could have spent it with Jack

I feel rather impatient
I need to here from ONE university before I can accept any offers)

Kai The Immortal said...

( much preferred boxing day tbh was at Gemmas as she felt better and I'm glad.

I only applied to the one, I have not heard back, me thinks it is because I need a port folio so they do them last)

Inky Flame said...

(I've applied to five, i have had four offers but haven't heard from one...)

Inky Flame said...

(Where are people's?)

Feraaaa32 said...

I am here now.

Inky Flame said...

(How are you?)

Edward Fletcher said...
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Feraaaa32 said...

I have already answered the question :P wot u doing?

Inky Flame said...

(Right ...

Writing, yourself?)

Feraaaa32 said...

nothing much really ^_^ Bit of studying, bit of writing.

Inky Flame said...

(I am going to bed now
Nos da)

Feraaaa32 said...

nos da

Tanya Halcyon (Kas) said...

(Hi. I finished watching Jessica Jones. I didn't like it :/ Probably because of the writing/plot.)

Custard and Cream said...

Really?? I was going to start watching it cause of Davd Tennant (is that the one with him?) but if it's bad I might not bother....

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

I've heard good things about it from a couple of irl friends, so it may be a matter of personal opinion?

I haven't seen it though, so I can't say for sure.

Custard and Cream said...

Might try it anyway

Chione Asahina said...

(I literally just finished it there and i loved David in in. I really liked it but that's just me. I like almost anything. If it was terrible i would tell you. I think it's very worth watching)

Custard and Cream said...

Gotcha, I'll try it, thanks :)

Chione Asahina said...

(Anime effects me more emotionally. Tv is just entertainment and things i can talk to people about, really. Anime is what really gets me involved.

Although there were a few jaw-dropping moments in Jessica Jones. That's when you know i liked something. When i actually react.

Anyway hi Kirsten! Wanna chat?)

Custard and Cream said...

Hi! This is actually perfect timing cause my sister kicked me off the PlayStation so I can't watch Supernatural anymore

How's you?

Chione Asahina said...

I'm good. Really bored though. Don't really know what to do with myself...i mean, binge watch stuff obviously, my list is never ending. But you know when you sit and watch stuff all day, no matter how good it is you feel like you've wasted a day?
You don't get that with anime really...you could have 4 episodes watched in an episode of a tv show. The small ones are like 12 episodes each. That's 3/4 episodes of a tv show and you're done. Possibly onto the second season if there is one. Although it's true a hell of a lot happens in a tv episode. I get a bit lost at times with how much that happens but so does anime. And it's amazing...24 episodes of an anime is like knowing it for months. It's like, for that time i'm in their world living it with them. Crying when their friends die, feeling their frustration when the perskn they love either doesn't love them back or has someone else. It's like you know them personally.
-shakes her head-
I need to shut up about it. Change of subject.

I wish i had a sister.

How was your christmas?
What did you get?

Custard and Cream said...

I know what you mean. I don't watch anime but I love TV shows and I'm just a little obsessed... If a little means a lot...

It's great having a sister, we either get on great or horribly there's like no inbetween and I think it's made worse because we have to share a room but I've gotta love her

Christmas was good this year, got loads of stuff I wanted and a few surprises too, including a doctor who top that is now a little pink.... And two of those hp colouring books haha

You?

Chione Asahina said...
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Custard and Cream said...

Hey, I'm happy to hear your opinion and you should watch stuff cause you want to

Plus, I include this as a social life so you do have one - so there

And I sit for days on end binge watching too so you're not alone

...... I think I argued all the points you just made, if I missed one let me know and I'll make a convincing argument for that as well :)

Chione Asahina said...

I have two brothers.
Josh is autistic so i don't actually think he understands that i love him. And that he's such a prick to me. All i ever do is protect him and check up on him. All he does is call me fat and shit...i'm trying ny best to be the better person and try to show him...it's only worked once. Once that i've felt actually close to my own brother.
And it was the same as the only time i felt close to my step-dad. He said the same that night...
-sighs-

Christmas was ok. Josh was a shit as per usual. He's all 'presents presents presents'
Yeah it's natural for a child. But he dhouldn't really be anymore. He's 13, going into 2nd year and still n
Believes in santa and is ungrateful as anything. So bloody annoying when i spent money i earned on trying to make him happy. The first christmas i've had money to spend on people.

Bruadar Cadail said...

never apologise for something that makes you smile, Gemma. life's too short. find whatever makes you happy and hold on to it. no matter what it is. if ever you feel that you need approval from other people, just remember that there are over 6 billion people in the world. People are ten-a-penny, we go through them like coffee paper. no matter what happens in life, we can only do our best to keep moving forwards and never give in to despair. so don't bother feeling guilty for saying something, or not fitting in. life is too full of big problems to start inventing little ones.

hello, incidentally.

Chione Asahina said...

Mum said when he was born i ran down the halls screaming "i'm a big sister"
I probably did...i was so happy. Which makes it even more heart-breaking with every thing he says. I know he's only a kid and that's what kids do but i don't remember anything nice he's done for me...

Custard and Cream said...

My nephew is autistic, but he's 3 and cant even talk yet so we haven't had the same experience as you seem to have had. He's so cute and he's just learned to give kisses. It's a shame that your brothers like that, but he might not understand that he's hurting you... I don't know, I'm not an expert....

I can understand the presents thing though, I know a few kids who are so ungrateful. One I know opened her things from my mum and went 'is that it?' I was like.... Kehn what I'll take it back. But I never said that..... They're just spoiled and I do love to spoil them but it can have negative consequences sometimes

Chione Asahina said...

Hey person.
I can't remember what you said to call you.
Um.
Will i just call you bruadar on the blog and Struan in real life or do you not care?

God i sound really depressing tonight lol...guess i needed to rant a little.

Hows your school stuff coming?

Bruadar Cadail said...

ranting's healthy, I swear by it myself.
Dont worry about names. its all one.

Bruadar Cadail said...

school is...boring. ridiculously so. I have a crap-ton of free time and i'm finding myself nipping into the science base to annoy john.

Chione Asahina said...

Annoying John is fun. I kinda miss his big stupid goofy smile and laugh though...
I miss you guys.

The friends i made in Uni are all leaving i think...i'll have no one. I'll be alone again...i need to start again. Fuck. This is one of the first times i've striggled making friends.
Maybe it's cause the other times were short term....no one stays around me for long. That would make sense...the only one that stayed for any leangth of time is Amy. God i miss her...

Chione Asahina said...

Oh shit Kirsten i'm not ignoring you. I'm kinda having a mental breakdown and may be about to cry but it's cool.
Your nephew sounds so cute. My other brother is 6 so yeah :)

Custard and Cream said...

It's fine haha, I was busy anyway

Mental breakdowns can be good sometimes.... I know sometimes I just need a good cry and temper tantrum

Obviously you can talk if you need to, I don't really know you but that can make it easier sometimes? I dunno... Yeah...

Chione Asahina said...

I like typing. It's kinda soothing till i lose my cool and go a bit mental. Maybe i should go to sleep soon. That might help.

Custard and Cream said...

I love typing, I love the sound. Sometimes I find something random to type just to listen to it... That's a bit weird

But sleeps good, sleep means you can relax for a while and not think about things

Chione Asahina said...

Well, we're always thinking things. Even in our sleep so there is never really a break from it.

And yeah, i get a bit of a rush from typing especially when i'm pissed off because smoke rises. Keiron will tell you how fast i type normally. If you see how fast i type when i'm pissed off you'll probably say the same as he does. But i like the rush. I like when i type fast. Not the same effect on a phone though...i'm sad now that my laptop is broken.

Chione Asahina said...

Yeah um. I'm going to go to bed before i say something stupid or offensive or something. Words are so powerful. Maybe i'll try and write a short story or something tomorrow.

Chione Asahina said...

Night Kirsten, Struan.

Custard and Cream said...

In sleep though you can't really go into things in as much detail. Like awake if you think about something too much you can make it worse but in sleep most of the time you forget about your dreams, or at least I do

I don't go on my laptop for this as much as I do my phone, usually I use my laptop for homework, sims and to write but my phone is a little mucked up just now so when I'm typing random places are being touched at random times and I can end up deleting something I didn't want to or coming off a page I was using, it's really annoying

Custard and Cream said...

And night :)

Bruadar Cadail said...

goodnight, everyone

Garret Falcone said...

Anyone on?

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Maybe...?

Hello, how are you?

Garret Falcone said...

Fabi!! Hello! I'm tired and feelin me xD how are you? And long time no see like

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Yeah, it's been a while.

I'm also tired. I'm close to done with another college essay, though, which is good. I've also realized that my singing voice is ever-so-slightly horrendous.

Garret Falcone said...

Yeah...

That's good :) Finishing college work is always a relief (depending on what you call college out there?) and I highly doubt that about your singing voice

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Ah, yes. Education systems.

High school is grades 9-12

College is after high school (usually you'd start at 18)

A university is a school that's larger and made out of multiple sub-colleges. A university might have a college of natural sciences separate from its college of medicine, etc.

#murica

Dugglyn Carzainia said...

College/university seems terrifying...!

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

I mean, it depends on the college/university, but yeah. Especially when you're just starting high school.

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Or graduating:

*raises hand*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[Shrugs] I think it'd be scarier when you're starting, because it's farther in the future and doesn't seem real and you don't know what to do with your life and stuff. That's how it was for me, anyways.

I'm taking dual enrollment classes at a college now though, so actual college college doesn't seem super scary, aside from the whole being judged on my application bit.

Dugglyn Carzainia said...

Personally I think Fabi's right but idk because i haven't graduated yet! I guess I'm also hoping it isn't as scary when I'm graduating XD

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

I'm a senior and its not real feeling

Sure you know you're out of there not coming back

Dugglyn Carzainia said...

Well good luck!!

Inky Flame said...

(Te weather outside is terrible -_- just laying in bed...)

Inky Flame said...

(Hmmm I guess I'd be equivalent to a senior

You go to primary school aged 4-11
Then highschool (though where I am you call it comprehensive school) from 11-16
Then college from 16-18
Then university )

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(Okay. I've split it up into nine sections and I'll need to do two a day to finish in time, two and a half a day if I want a day purely for relaxing and getting my head together for school.)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(I'm gonna spend more time in my little brothers room on a night because I get stressed and upset when it's just me and my cat in my room on a night, also it means I'll actually go on my laptop instead of wondering if its too late. I'm going to start having early nights if I can, maybe half eleven then eleven then half ten.. that might work. Anyway yeah, plans.)

Chione Asahina said...

Good plan, Sid. Good morning everyone.

Inky Flame said...

(Good afternoon
*has to design a study*
*cries*)

Chione Asahina said...

-hugs Chloe-
There there...

Inky Flame said...

(*hugs Gem* how are you?)

Inky Flame said...

(*sighs and kicks something*)

Kai The Immortal said...

(hello..... Anyone alive out there, can anyone hear me?)

Chione Asahina said...

I'm ok Chloe. Just bored really.

Hey baby -hugs and kisses-

Inky Flame said...

(*screMs the house down*)

Chione Asahina said...

Chloe?

Inky Flame said...

(I am practising my Marilyn Manson impression

Nah, I'm just a little bit frustrated really)

Chione Asahina said...

Need/want to talk?

Inky Flame said...

(Thank you for the offer, but it's just life in general and it'll sort itself out
Thanks though ^.^)

Chione Asahina said...

No problem :) i'm here if you need me

Inky Flame said...

(Thank you Bach ^.^ how are you? Up to much?)

Kai The Immortal said...

(-hugs and kisses - hey baby <3

Hey Chloe )

Inky Flame said...

(Hey K
How art thou?)

Inky Flame said...

(Hmmmm *wonders which spice girl id be *
*probably scary spice€
*nods in agreement with myaelf* )

Kai The Immortal said...

( I'm good, sorry I disappeared my phone kinda broke.... Ask gem she got 5 texts all at same time from yesterday and earlier today)

Kai The Immortal said...

(*has déjà vu * you've said this b4)

Inky Flame said...

(Ah, I see ^.^

It's weird how different ciders have different effects on me...

I have this nice raspberry cider that doesn't really affect me after one bottle
A can of strong bow makes me happy but it doesn't have much affect after one
Magners however... One can and I am everyone's best friend)

Inky Flame said...

(What?! No I haven't)

Inky Flame said...

(*sings ohhh ahh just a little bitI

Does anyone (with the exception of Gem and anyone else who can sing) sing in the bath or shower an think you sound amazing... But anywhere else you sound like a dying cat?!)

Kai The Immortal said...

(yeh you have, I have good memory.

And nothing effects me after one can, it's closer to 10 and even then)

Inky Flame said...

(I can't ever remember saying that O.o


I is a lightweight but I don't mind )

Kai The Immortal said...

( I'm a brilliant singer *laughs* and so is Gem, her singing always makes me happy)

Inky Flame said...

(Gem has an amazing voice! Oh what I would do to have a good voice... )

Kai The Immortal said...

( I've always said lightweight is better, it costs less ....


And I know she does :P, you're prob just saying that, then again I've never heard you)

Inky Flame said...

(I think it's better too XD




Lol, ask my family
They say I'm like a dying cat )

Inky Flame said...

(And you'll never hear me sing anyways
I am incredibly shy and unable to speak to strangers)

Kai The Immortal said...

(I'm not a stranger, not really)

Inky Flame said...

(But I don't actually know you irl

We all must unite one day and have a party(

Kai The Immortal said...

( yes, we must :P are you still coming up for family)

Inky Flame said...

(Not anytime soon, but I will in the future definitely )

Kai The Immortal said...

(cool, there is always the possibility of down there too if that is still a thing)

Inky Flame said...

(That would be awesome ^.^
*binges on chocolate* )

Kai The Immortal said...

( we'll have to wait and see but you never know:p

You too? )

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Singing in the bathroom always sounds so much better because of the echoey acoustics. [nods]

Inky Flame said...

( I can't help it
Mum won't tell me where the cider is)

Inky Flame said...

(Hey Fab ^.^

Awesome!)

Kai The Immortal said...

( you can't turn to alcohol so you turn towards chocolate?

And echoy is only good sometimes)

Inky Flame said...

(Yes
I may as well binge on that this week as I'm going to start going back to circuit training next week )

Kai The Immortal said...

( ok..... *shrugs *)

Inky Flame said...

(I ha a tonne of chocolate for Christmas)

Kai The Immortal said...

(dittto :P although I don't have to be good any time soon)

Inky Flame said...

(I ... I am very conscious that I haven't been working out in months
Sometimes it keeps me up at night )

Edward Fletcher said...

You dont need to, your amazing as you are Chloe and anybody who says otherwise should keep quiet cause they're wrong
Your beautiful just the way you are and don't you EVER let anybody say otherwise

Inky Flame said...

(Jack... Thank you)

Kai The Immortal said...

(if it makes you feel better proper working out has been done 3 times this year)

Edward Fletcher said...

Don't thank me, I really don't deserve it

*leaves*

Inky Flame said...

(You deserve all the happiness in the world Jack)

Edward Fletcher said...

No I don't, you deserve all the happiness
You deserve everything good in life

Kai The Immortal said...

(*looks away and plays with his cut throat razor like a butterfly knife*)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(We should all try meet up in Birmingham one day.
Or somewhere halfway between south Wales and Glasgowish Scotland.)

Inky Flame said...

(I have more than I deserve, I have you )

Inky Flame said...

(Okay Jai!)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(Someone work out where halfway between Glasgow and south Wales is please..)

Kai The Immortal said...

(that would be nice jai)

Kai The Immortal said...

(probably the boarders)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(We could meet up next year sometime? Maybe try find a time none of us are busy in the six week holidays?)

Edward Fletcher said...

Birmingham is great

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(I'd say closer to Blackpool and York?)

Kai The Immortal said...

(its apparently Liverpool looked it up

But yeh possibly)

Edward Fletcher said...

York is also great

Inky Flame said...

(Blackpool is nice

It's four or five hours from me)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(Liverpool? There's no way, Liverpool is lower down than me and I swear I'm closer to south Wales than Glasgow..)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(So, Liverpool or Blackpool then?
I can't say I know my way around either.)

Inky Flame said...

(My sense of direction is crap)

Kai The Immortal said...

(Chloe wht is the town ill double check but yeh getting Liverpool right now)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(Well Rhos might want to come too? He lives closer to the south of Wales.)

Inky Flame said...

(Which town?)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(Just go from Swansea or Cardiff, somewhere low down in Wales.)

Inky Flame said...

(Rhos lives about an hour and a half from me and would be on the same train line as me, probably)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(I'm getting Southport? Or that general area.)

Kai The Immortal said...

I did Cardiff and got Liverpool... Blackpool is closer for us obv so if we actually do that then its ok ?

I dunno lol, )

Inky Flame said...

(Blackpool is only two and a half hours from jacks so that would be fine if I stay at Jacks)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(Blackpool could work then.)

Kai The Immortal said...

( one wonders if Blackpool then shows?

Hypothetically one needs to know)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(Then shows what?)

Chione Asahina said...

My family all tell me i sound like a dying cat and tell me to shut up. I though i was ok at singing but obviously not.

Kai The Immortal said...

( would one hypothetically go to paradise beach or whatever it is called)

Chione Asahina said...

Oh btw where is next free post?

Inky Flame said...

(It's pleasure beach
Which is amazing )

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(Next Post

You mean pleasure beach?)

Chione Asahina said...

Pleasure beach!
-eyes light up-
Yayyyyy!
But Blackpool is 4 hours by car away from here...

Kai The Immortal said...

( me and Chloe say you're brilliant at singing)

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