bookfart: This may be asking for trouble...

Sunday, June 12, 2011

This may be asking for trouble...

But I've set a deadline for myself. I will be finished by the first day of fall. Which Google informs me is September 23rd. So I added that nifty little countdown timer to the right because countdowns are nifty.

And by "finished," I mean "finished assuming my book will be roughly 80,000 words." So there you are.

I plan on writing at least 300 words-a-day from now until the 24th excluding my birthday (!!!) and the eight days I'll be in Iowa for their Summer Writing Festival. I'm taking their Advanced Novel Workshop, and I am slightly terrified only because I have to write a synopsis of my B.I.P. and I have never written a synopsis before.

I am literally a pussy. Just kidding. I know what that means.

In any case, I'll try to update bookfart more often. Perhaps continue that long-overdue review of Masked? Who the fuck knows?

Marcus. Marcus knows.

Marcus is literally a pussy.

7 comments:

yrmamaWednesday, June 15, 2011
I'm going to be at the festival the week beginning July 10. And you? Who is your instructor? Don't sweat speaking Iowan too much, you'll pass.
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thepopeofbeersWednesday, June 15, 2011
I'll be in Iowa from July 23rd to 30th. My instructor is Robert Anthony Siegel. The only things I know about him I've learned from his Wikipedia page :p

What class(es) are you taking?
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burninglikeiceTuesday, June 21, 2011
BIRTHDAY!! I wish I could go down there and celebrate with you.

That countdown is rather ominous.
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thepopeofbeersWednesday, June 22, 2011
Countdowns are ominifty.
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burninglikeiceThursday, June 23, 2011
I haven't written or chosen what I'm going to hand in for my class yet. So we can slack together. As per usual.

Side note, September 23 is 3 days after my dad's birthday. Make your book completion a present to him.
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thepopeofbeersSunday, June 26, 2011
Maybe your dad should write a book for me. Our relationship is so one-sided.

:p
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burninglikeiceTuesday, June 28, 2011
My dad would probably just give you money to buy a book and then let you pretend he wrote it. He's all about using your imagination.
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About the Book

There are people with abilities they shouldn't have. Abilities that should not be possible. A man who can transform into a tiger, apple core eyes, and orange, black stripes, burning. A woman with metal fingers instead of flesh, scalpel-like. They are called Caps.

Kallie is a Cap. She's stronger than anyone she's ever known, and she aches to be the hero she could be. When the man who maimed her years ago is broken out of his padded cell, she knows he will find her again. She can regenerate, but John Doe plucked the fingers from her hand and swallowed each one. He took too much. She can already feel the phantom crawl of his tongue, and she will kill him before he tastes her for the last time.

Danny's the reason John Doe is free, and he did it because his boyfriend, Marcus, told him to. He does whatever Marcus tells him to because Marcus can see the future as well as he can the present, and right now his apple core eyes are fixed on the source of their abilities. Convinced the answer's in their blood, Marcus pegs John Doe as just the Cap to section and study. His abilities will keep his blood flowing long after his veins should have dried.

During the break out, Marcus is severely wounded, John Doe escapes, and Danny finds himself shouldering a plan he doesn't even understand. He still trusts Marcus, though, if nothing else, and knows of someone they could bleed instead. Someone Danny's only fought once before. She could regenerate like John Doe. He downs another vodka shot and tries to remember her name. And then it comes to him:

Kallie.