Midnight’s Heir [draft #5] yearly words: 26,239 current music: (movie on in background) opening line: Her knees knocked together despite her position on the sofa. closing line: His ebony eyes narrowed into slits. “If I was home right now, I’d beat him up myself.” reason for stopping: end of chapter favorite phrase: She hadn’t known [...]
Also tagged characters, daily, dialogue, excerpt, favorite, harlan vampire series, writingopening count: 10,495 daily count: 4,224 current music: singing birds opening line: Adam said, “Yes, sir.” closing line: As her blood flowed into his mouth, he groaned. reason for stopping: I would have kept going, but I was wiped out – and it was midnight! way time for bed. favorite phrase: “You don’t know what [...]
Also tagged characters, daily, dialogue, excerpt, favorite, harlan vampire series, oy vey, writingThis picture is an example of how I organize my writing and research files: In the top directory, you’ll see a folder titled ‘FAQs’ – that is absent in the rest of the directories. That’s because I don’t use that folder any more. While Evernote was still in beta, I started using it, and now [...]
Also tagged characters, daily, harlan vampire series, worldbuilding, writingWhen I first got the idea for Midnight in late 1996, I knew I wanted to write a different kind of ‘vampire story’. I never meant for the story to be the typical vampires-are-demons, the embodiment of our worst fears, gothic-chiller type story; I wanted to write about humans having a vampire problem. My characters, [...]
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