Deadlines

I found myself thinking while in the shower last night – I do quite a lot of thinking at that time turns out – and I was analyzing why I tend to multi task, & why I place a due date on things I am doing/writing etc.
I find giving myself a completion date on anything I am working on, is a good kick in my a$$ to get it done. Otherwise, Id slog about, and it would take forever. No different, really, then journalists having a deadline, or a publisher giving an author a deadline.
That is why I’ve given myself the following deadlines to have my In Progess novels done by.

3,734words
Darkness Awaits Late Summer 2014
This gives me plenty of time to get the first draft scribbled out – to get my a$$ in gear! Aiming for 50,000 words, give or take a few. I’ve got a healthy start on the novel, working on putting the bibliography together, and plotting out the story & fleshing those characters out. That is a hell of a lot of writing just in itself, but makes the complete story come together so much easier, I find.

459wordsThe Porn Sight March 2014
I’m aiming for 8 – 10,000 words for this Erotic Short, and I think March to be an entirely do-able length of time. Since the story is loosely based on some experiences of my husbands, while on the job, I really don’t have to poke at the story much to have it come to life. I’ve lightly started it, & have the basic plot outline finished.

3,513wordsDynasty Novel I haven’t a proper title yet, as you’ve been noticing. I really must get over the loss of most of this story, & just chalk it up to the chance at a re-write. I do still have the hefty character profiles, the three book outlines, & the first few chapters.. I’ve lightly given myself til Fall 2015 for having the first book re-written. Summers are a very busy time on our farm, & I don’t expect to get much done in the way of writing during the warm months.
When I had the first draft of book one almost finished, I had decided to go the route of three separate books. Now I wonder, depending on where this write takes me, if a three in one isn’t a better idea. We’ll just go along with the write and see where we end up.

128wordsDummies 4 Arabian Horses Must come up with proper title, & not steal ‘For Dummies’. Still gathering up all my years of data on the Arabian breed, and also spent a hour or so yesterday plotting out chapters, sub chapters. Deadline? Honestly no idea. :p

Multi-Tasking

Over 200 of ‘The Dirty Witness’ downloaded! Hope everyone I enjoying my erotic short, I’ve received two lovely reviews/comments on my ‘About Bobbi’ page already! Thank you guys!
I discontinued my promotion of the story when I hit 200 downloads, but only put the price to .99 US – a decent price for a quick bedtime high I think. I do plan on running another Free promo on ‘The Dirty Witness’ for the big V day – so stay tunes for your chance to experience it for free again!

I’ve been slowly plugging at a couple things, in between daily life – my Dark Fantasy Romance reminiscent of Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kresley Cole, & Kinley McGregor – it features the love story of two Greek Deities!
Also scratching out another Erotic Short, based loosely on one of my hubby’s experiences on the road – going to try to round this one out a bit more, a bit of back story, & just generally fleshing it out.

Also, pulling together all of my data I’ve collected over the years, to put together almost a ‘Book for Dummies’ on my favourite horse breed – The Arabian. This has been simmering in my head for years, & since I tend to do my best when multi-tasking, I plan to start putting it together in between breathers from my other written projects.

2,384 on The Darkness Awaits
1,558 on Dynasty Novel (This still breaks my heart, with only three chapters to go til Book One was finished, and I lost almost all of it.
269 on The Porn Sight

I’ve Got This!

With the horrific loss of 10 chapters of my ‘Dynasty’ novel, I’m left with only the Prologue and first 2. Upgraded my writing app to Daedalus, that offers syncing with Icloud – and also exports as various file extensions such as ePub , which is needed for easily formatting IBooks for e- readers. (Note: Smashwords does not accept ePub files made from Daedalus! That is the end result from fighting all weekend with it.) 😦

I’m too dumbfounded at the moment to continue working on the Dynasty novel – with only a few chapters left til the end of book one, I just can’t bring myself to start over quite yet.

So, in the meantime, I’m expounding my creative energies into a new direction – a Dark Fantasy Romance. I’m quite taken with my new characters already, and the ‘love’ story they have to tell – I’ve entitled it, “The Darkness Awaits”.

I’m also completely finished with my Erotic Short, “The Dirty Witness”, and planning to upload it as a free e-book through SmashWords, hopefully by the end of this weekend. I’ve used one of my photographs from my play into Boudoir and Glamour Photography as the cover, I think it looks quite grand!
I’ll be sure and share the link to my erotic short once it’s live as a e-book.

UPDATE: HereThe Dirty Witness is now available for free! All good things come to an end, and when we’ve hit 200 downloads for The Dirty Witness the FREE promo will end.

1,750 words on The Darkness Awaits! I write quite slow, editing, re-reading as I go.. It’s my process. 🙂