HORRORS!

Literally.

Night before last I spent basically the entire night trapped in a gory nightmare. Yuck. The good news, though, is that once I finally managed to wake myself up, I realized this dream actually was fodder for a story idea - one that would fit into a dystopian-slash-horror genre really nicely. I know this is oh-so-Stephenie-Meyer, but the truth is that good ideas are good ideas, and if a sparkly vampire can be a good idea, then I think my dream idea just might have some merit, too.

I've been blocked and made little progress on the WIP lately, but yesterday morning I sat down and just brainstormed and wrote out what I remembered from the dream and yielded almost 2K words on the idea. It's an exciting idea, but as much as I'm tempted, I absolutely won't be abandoning the WIP (seriously, that damn book needs a title already) to work on this Sexy New Idea. As much as I want to. And I REALLY want to. But I won't. BUT I WANT TO.

Which just means I need to finish up the damn WIP already, give it a title, and then move onwards. I'll keep the Sexy New Idea file open so I can jot ideas down into it as they come to me.

Oh, and speaking of productivity on the WIP, I just downloaded Mac Freedom onto my laptop. I simply need to stop wasting so much time online and get my ish together and WRITE DAMNIT!

Cheers,

Rheana

Challenge Update

So? How did the weekend mini writing challenge go?

Despite a crazy full weekend of work that exhausted me, I managed around 250 new words, and I got some more outlining on my beat sheet done.

The (wee) challenge

So today one of the amazing gals in my writing group (all of whom I fully intend to introduce here on the blog and get linked to very, very soon) sent out a mini-challenge. A lot of us have been languishing in our "GET THE WORDS OUT, DAMMIT!!" attempts as of late, so the gauntlet has been thrown. It's not a massive challenge, but the perfect baby steps to get us all back into the swing of things.

Her challenge is to get something, anything, written this weekend so that we all have something to report/share when we do our weekly check-in on Monday. Challenge accepted, ma'am!



(Oh, look, my first blog gif!! Yay, me!!)



But I digress...

I have a weekend packed full of work, but I still plan to get at least one full scene on the WIP written this weekend. I've been wanting to write a really fun, swoony scene involving my FMC and her potential love interest. This seems like the perfect chance to do that! This will be me:



(Ok, I'm done now, I swear!)

Cheers!

Rheana