Amy Ruttan

I’m over at Leah’s today right here.

 I’m talking about Halloween Costumes and she’s graciously giving away a copy of Masque. E-book of course.

I’ll be away tomorrow helping the kidlets get ready for Halloween, and baking lots of treats for my brood. I love Halloween. So have a safe and haunting but happy Halloween! Boo!

So I was supposed to go to a writer’s retreat with Christine d’Abo, J.K. Coi, Leah Braemel, Kimber Chin and Wylie Kinson this weekend. The kids got sick.

Dang it. I was hoping I could use the weekend away to get a HUGE chunk of my Urban Fantasy done.

I did anyways. I participated through Instant Messaging and managed to hit my 10k goal by Saturday evening. Friday I wrote about 2600 words and on Saturday … oh Saturday was like the days of old. I wrote 7806 words on Saturday.

When I started on Friday my manuscript was 10k, now my manuscript is 21k. I wrote some words yesterday. I also wrote the final scene in the book. Even though I haven’t figured out all the “stuff” to the story yet and I have a lot of [INSERT NAME HERE] markers I wrote the final scene and I feel really good about it.

REALLY good about it. Writing the last scene fired the muse, who was getting a little stalled because of the 10k in two days. Also writing the last scene was a first for me. Usually I am a sequential writer. Meaning I have to write the book in order from beginning to end. I’m not a cute and past type of gal. So jumping ahead and writing the final three (single spaced) pages first was again totally out of my comfort zone.

So how do you write things? Are you sequential or a cut and paster? And if you don’t write tell me something you’ve always wanted to try but are too afraid to or have you ever conquered a fear? I can tell you when I visited San Francisco in 2008 I touched a shark. My biggest fear.

I’m blogging the Romance Studio blog on Friday about music and how it effects my writing mood. Talking about play lists and the current albums burning my ear drums.

 Come tell me your music tastes here.

I’ve always thought I was a historical girl, or if I wrote outside of the historical box it tended to be erotic or romantica. I’ve started an Urban Fantasy. Romance is not the main focus this time. It’s set in our time, but with paranormal happenings. My heroine is a bit rough around the edges.

And it’s going really well.

I planned it to be NaNo story. I started writing last Friday to test the waters…well did I ever get my feet sopping wet. It’s day four of working (since I didn’t do any work on it on Saturday) and I hit 10k last night, with no end in the steam.

I’m thinking I can hit 20k this weekend, and at first I was worried I would have nothing left for NaNo; but no worries this is going to be an 80k book so I have plenty to work on for NaNo.

I also tend to write in third person POV and this story is in first person POV. I am totally in my heroines head, err the main characters head. No delving into other POVs for safety or to add words. Solely and deeply in her POV. That in itself is a challenge for me.

I have to say it is really super charging my Muse to step back from the genre I feel so passionately about and have some fun in another. I guess you can still sort of count my urban fantasy as romance as there is that small subplot, but it’s not the main focus. Oh there will be still some hot sex, just not the amounts I tend to put in.

All and all I’m kind of glad I crossed the line in the sand I drew for myself. It’s fun working out of my box. Ever decided to write out of your genre or work out of your comfort zone?

This is late posting but darn it I was busy today. My DH has been away for a week and I haven’t had a moment to myself. He came home today, and early too.

Anyways, sinful indulgences is what I was talking about at Naughty & Spice today. Come by and visit.

did you start listening the hard stuff?” asked my DH when I was listening to Breaking Benjamin.

Hmm. Well, I kind of always liked hard things, but not a whole lot.  

Lately I’ve been immersing myself in Breaking Benjamin and some monster ballads for my UF. Yeah, I know what the heck am I doing writing a romantic UF. I have no idea, but I’m loving it.

I’m also writing the WIP from my plotting binder. I do a scene a day. And that is a historical.

 So I’m writing at both ends of the spectrum again. *sigh* I said I wouldn’t do this to myself again, yet here I am.

Ever do this to yourself?

On a cool note, starting in November on the first Monday every month I’ll be blogging at The Raven about Canadian Hauntings. More deets to come.

My Oh Yum! Love Thy Neighbor was released today in a print anthology titled Finely Aged! YAY! Nothing like a release to start of a weekend … which will be full of edits.