June wordcount:

4835 / 16000 words. 30% done!
*sighs*
2009 wordcount:

109557 / 200000 words. 55% done!
*sighs again*
But, July wordcount so far:

1249 / 16000 words. 8% done!
Projects for July:

fic exchange story (2000+ words)
charity sip for Torquere (3000-8000 words)
the big damn movie
the eight of wands Arcana

Oh, have I ever got a lot to do next year. Onward!

First, an FYI: I’m redoing the categories and tags for the site, trying to neaten them up. I apologize for any inconvenience.
Now, for the Deep Thoughts:
When I’m writing a first draft, I prefer to write it straight through rather than skip around in the timeline. I look on a first draft as a draft of [...]

My current project is a screenplay, and it’s not coming very easily. This is due to a lot of factors, I think, the two biggest being subject matter and form.
Subject matter: it’s a biopic, about a solider named Bill Aalto, who grew up in the Bronx, fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and knew [...]

July: movie rough draft: seven pages. It’s been seven pages since last week. But at least that’s seven more than I had in June.
August: the Four of Cups finished and sent! Which means August will be more movie and working on the Leo-Stuart story.
September: More of the same. Polish the movie to a fine sheen.
October: [...]

I realized yesterday morning that I have nothing else scheduled to come out this year. Alas, alas.

July: movie rough draft, which I know I’ve been saying for months but this time I mean it. My partner wants to take it to a production company in October. I need to stop flailing about it and just [...]

March: Cartography for Beginners rough draft. STATUS: Well . . . I got about 10,000 words into the rough draft and then it all petered out.
April-May: the movie rough draft. STATUS: Still planning on this. I’ve decided to participate in Script Frenzy for inspiration. I have a file box full of primary and secondary sources [...]

. . . is what I’ve been calling my plans for the year. The big list of next looks like this:
March: Cartography for Beginners rough draft.
April-May: the movie rough draft
June-July: Arcana rough and editing
August-Sept-October: Editing Cartography for Beginners
November: Nanowrimo (next SF ‘verse story)
December: REST!!! maybe write some fic.
Though I’m considering writing the Arcana in March [...]

This entry at Smart Bitches about why happy endings are considered inferior has reminded me of the struggle I’m having with The Movie, and I thought I’d repost something I wrote in another blog here.

Sometime in the next year, I’m going to be writing a spec script for a biopic. I’m very excited to do this: the subject is fascinating, the time period is interesting, and the story is worth telling. This wasn’t my idea: I was approached to collaborate by someone who specializes in this subject. (My [...]