Okay, now that I've got that out of the way...
I was up to 6800 words on Djinn 4. Then I realized I had totally farqued up, set all but about 500 of that aside, and took another run at it. I'm around 3K in now. The good news is I can still probably use a lot of those other 6300 words. I just had them in the wrong place. I think this was mainly because I wanted to answer all the questions from Up Wish Creek right up front to save my readers from wondering. I need to cut that out. Things will happen. Questions I created in Up Wish Creek will be answered... eventually.
And I came up with a title. When the Wish Hits the Fan. I know I said something before about changing to a djinn-based title system (along the lines of Djinn and Tonic), but it wouldn't work for this since this is still a continuation of what happens in the wish-based title system. If that makes any sense.
I went fishing once last week. Caught two bluegills and threw them back. They weren't that big. Better luck next time. This coming week is supposed to be cooler, so maybe the fishies will be hungrier.
I was looking out the windows on the sun porch a couple days ago and saw this:
To that end, Hubs shored up the door to the space under the house yesterday. While he was doing that, I stuffed steel wool in all the crevices behind the kitchen cabinet drawers - not against snakes, against mice. We should be vermin free for winter now. :fingers crossed: I'll wait a week to make sure and then I'll put stuff back into those drawers again. Nothing grosser than finding mouse droppings in the same drawer you keep eating utensils. Lemme tell ya.
The drawers, btw, have been thoroughly doused with Lysol.
On the reading front, I'm still working on that fantasy novel. It's really good, but sometimes when my writing is giving me fits, I'm not that keen on reading.
I'm sure there are probably other things, but my caffeine and nicotine levels are still too low to think efficiently. What's up in your worlds?
Have you thought about adding a subtitle to all your books? Like "The Djin Series" or "Tales of the Djin"?
ReplyDeleteThis way you can tie your books together under a subheading and not worry that your reader base will get confused by which series they're reading. You can also add a number so they know which book goes in what order.
I've done this with authors who do series and it really does make it easier to keep track. A couple of times some of my authors didn't know they were going to do a series and I've gone back to modify their older titles to match the newer books.
They have a series title - Once Upon a Djinn - on the covers with the book number.
DeleteI like the title but I'd drop the "When" and make it just "The Wish Hits the Fan."
ReplyDeleteYeah, make the reader work on the answers but glad you can use those words when the time becomes appropriate in the plot line. This is why I love Scrivener. The notecard/bulletin board feature is perfect for this kind of thing and since I write in individual scenes that aren't necessarily connected in the beginning, it's a lifesaver for me!
Here's to cooler weather! And which fantasy are you reading?
Yay for new words, especially ones you can use later! I'm thrilled you're working on Jo's story again! I love "The Wish Hits the Fan." With or without the When. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI adore garden snakes. I love them to live under my house - I don't get mice when they do. My previous cats were good mousers, even though they were blind, but Churchill thinks mice are toys on wheels, and sets them free when he's tired of them.
Still chugging away on the nonfiction, and getting real work done on 5C. Finally finished the chapter that hung me up for six months. Hooray! I'd planned to write this afternoon, but a thunderstorm is blowing in, so I'll turn off the computer in a minute.