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Update #8 April 28, 2021
WORKING TITLE: Everdal GENRE: YA/NA Fantasy Status: Writing First Draft Days in current Status: 93 Days of actual writing: 19 Current Word Count: 40,890 Current Chapter Count Complete: 16 NEXT STEPS: Complete first draft - Estimated completion date: 5/31/2021
What Happened?!?!
I haven't written a single word in two weeks... My minds been muddled. My mouth has gone dry. My eyes can't see and my body aches. Words come in overloading waterfalls. Images crowd my vision. Time passes to quickly and I can't catch up. Tonight, I tell myself. Tomorrow, I say. 14 days gone already, how many more can I chance?!
Update #7 April 14, 2021
WORKING TITLE: Everdal GENRE: YA/NA Fantasy Status: Writing First Draft Days in current Status: 79 Days of actual writing: 19 Current Word Count: 40,890 Current Chapter Count Complete: 16 NEXT STEPS: Complete first draft - Estimated completion date: 5/31/2021
The End…
I am usually a chronological writer. Meaning, I write from the beginning of a story to the end. Every now and then, a scene pops into my mind out of order and I quickly type it up so I don’t forget it, but usually I type my stories in order. So, you can imagine my surprise when I recently typed the final chapter of my latest work in progress… at least five chapters early. I’ve never known what was going to happen so soon into the writing process. To be perfectly honest, I’m excited and a bit weirded out. I’m not sure I want to know the ending so soon… I’m not sure how I feel about it, other than to know that it is the right ending for this particular book. I don’t even know how we get there yet. But, I have a feeling its going to be a crazy, exciting, and bumpy ride. I can’t wait to share this adventure with all of you.
Update #6 March 31, 2021
WORKING TITLE: Everdal GENRE: YA/NA Fantasy Status: Writing First Draft Days in current Status: 65 Days of actual writing: 14 Current Word Count: 33,560 Current Chapter Count Complete: 15 NEXT STEPS: Complete first draft - Estimated completion date: 5/31/2021
A Month of Excuses!
If I had a dollar for every excuse I made not to write over the past month… Well, I’d have a lot of dollars.
No More Excuses!
They say that you are more likely to reach your goals if you write them down and share them with others. Unfortunately, that didn’t work for me… I missed my writing deadline of March 31st (today). But, I don’t give up so easily. I’m setting a new deadline and this time it will stick. Come hell or high water! I will have the first draft of Everdal done by May 31, 2021. I hope each and every one of you reading this, will hold me to it. Comment below… message me… email me (ninasodenbooks@gmail.com)… Tweet me @Nina_Soden… tag me on Instagram Nina_Soden… just find a way to let me know you are pushing me to reach this goal. Sometimes it takes outside inspiration and motivation. Sometimes it just takes finding an extra thirty minutes in a day. I think I need a little of both. Ok, no more slaking… I’m going to go put in an hour of writing and try to get another 1,000 words in before I stop for the night.
Update #5 March 17, 2021
WORKING TITLE: Everdal GENRE: YA/NA Fantasy Status: Writing First Draft Days in current Status: 51 Days of actual writing: 13 Current Word Count: 30,891 Current Chapter Count Complete: 15 NEXT STEPS: Complete first draft - Estimated completion date: 3/31/2021
I’M BEHIND!!!
Ever feel like time is running out? Yeah, me too!
The good thing is, I created my own deadline for this project. Sure, I still want to reach the goal of having my first draft written by March 31st, but if I don’t reach it… I can always push the deadline date.
A glimpse into the life of Celeste Amora Stevenson Dupont
When your life has been turned upside down, but prom is just around the corner, you sneak away to find the perfect dress… one fit for a princess!
Update #4 February 27, 2021
WORKING TITLE: Everdal GENRE: YA/NA Fantasy Status: Writing First Draft Days in current Status: 34 Days of actual writing: 10 Current Word Count: 26,519 Current Chapter Count Complete: 14 NEXT STEPS: Complete first draft - Estimated completion date: 3/31/2021
I’m not going to lie, I didn’t get nearly as much done as I had hoped I would since the last update, but the crazy winter storm that hit the Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and who knows were else kind of made it hard. My family and I went to California for a four day weekend and ended up getting stuck in San Diego for a full week, unable to get a flight home. I wrote a total of ZERO WORDS while I was gone. I decided the enjoy the family time instead of worrying about my word count. But, I am back on track and I am still aiming for March 31st as a first draft due date. Keep me in your prayers.
In the meantime, check out the fun photos from my trip!
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For Kristy Smith, writing is her passion and writing about vampires gets her blood flowin’. Growing up in Michigan and spending time in several parts of the world has provided her with unique perspectives and innumerable opportunities for storytelling.
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Turning Point – Adam is the resident vampire in a small college town in Michigan. It’s the same scenario every night: wander campus, snag a co-ed for dinner, get home before dawn. Rinse. Repeat–until an irresistible new professor appears. From the shadows, he follows her every footstep, lurking, until he witnesses a tragic accident. As life drains from the object of his desire, he is faced with an impossible choice: Should he intervene or not?
22 years later, Alice Peterson is well on her way to graduating from college. Her life and goals are set, and her future is bright. But Alice meets Adam and a tempestuous wind portends a different fate. Thrust into a world she thought to be fictitious, Alice must rely on wit, cunning and newfound powers if she hopes to survive. Adam will do what he must to keep Alice from learning too much about her past, including the unthinkable.
No good deed goes unpunished as familial bonds are pushed to their limit and new relationships are tested. Filled with action and bloodlust-fueled drama, read on to unlock the mystery when Alice reaches her Turning Point.
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Update #3 February 11, 2021
WORKING TITLE: Everdal GENRE: YA/NA Fantasy Status: Writing First Draft Days in current Status: 17 Current Word Count: 22,755 Current Chapter Count Complete: 13.5 NEXT STEPS: Complete first draft - Estimated completion date: 3/31/2021 This week was a slow week. I was only able to write 2 days since my last update. My goal short term goal: reach 25,000 words by Wednesday, February 17th. Wish me luck!!!
Meet Ethan Knight…
Celeste had known Ethan since the 3rd grade when his family moved in down the road. However, it wasn’t until the eleventh grade that they became real friends. It wasn’t until their senior year, when her world was about to turn upside down, that they finally expressed how they felt about each other.
Will it be to late?
Douglas Ford is the author of the recent collection of weird fiction, Ape in the Ring. His short stories have appeared in such venues as Dark Moon Digest, Tales to Terrify, Weird City, as well as The Best Hardcore Horror, Volumes 3 and 4.
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APE IN THE RING – From the author of The Reattachment comes a frightening and twisted collection of stories that demonstrates Douglas Ford’s imagination at its best.
In these stories, a woman uncovers the buried memory of how she once disappeared inside the house of a murderer; a father waits and waits for his son to come out of a playground structure, unprepared for what finally does emerge; a group of foster children play an unconventional form of divination while protecting a secret together; the closet of a hotel room hides an unspeakable voyeur; and in the title story, a carnival offers ritualized combat with something that may or not be an ape.
Douglas Ford wields language like a sinister surgeon with a night-black scalpel. These stories cut down to the bone, exposing the darkness that lies just beneath the surface of our everyday world. This collection is a midnight carnival of dark wonders, terrifying and fascinating in equal measure.
–Bram Stoker Award-Winning Author, Tim Waggoner
Ape in the Ring and Other Tales of the Macabre and Uncanny is a must have collection for every horror library. Douglas Ford crafts stories that are disturbing, dripping with atmosphere, and claustrophobically frightening. You will be thinking about this book long after you have set it down.
-Bram Stoker Award-Winning Author, Owl Goingback
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