Title: Cursed Legacy - Vezien
Words Total Previous: 55,679
Words Written: 1847
Challenge Total: 5348
Word Count: 57,526
Hero Mood: Worried
Heroine Mood: Worried
Story Snippet:
"There were kids in purgatory?" Sabriel gasped. "Good God, what did they do to end up there?"
Of course. She had no idea how it worked. "Everyone goes to purgatory, Sabriel. It’s where your fate is decided. Purgatory is just another word for waiting room. It’s what you imagine it to be. I saw it for what it is, a vast empty space, but when I touched one of the souls there, I saw their version and shared it for a little while." He’d spent a lot of time there, almost all of his childhood and part of his adulthood. First he’d played, then he’d talked. "It’s not the devil’s waiting room, it’s the only waiting room. Some souls like it there and don’t move on for a long time."
Title: Cursed Legacy - Vezien
Words Total Previous: 52,178
Words Written: 3501
Challenge Total: 3501
Word Count: 55,679
Hero Mood: Sleepy
Heroine Mood: Slightly shocked
Story Snippet:
She quietly opened the door and stepped out onto the porch. With a bit of luck she’d even see some wildlife. The moon was high and she smiled when the scent of mown grass and cool earth drifted into her nostrils. God, there was something to be said about quietly sitting on the porch with a cup of hot tea, enjoying the night. Her gaze drifted along the railing and she gasped when she became aware of Vezien sitting on her porch swing. He didn’t move, just sat, turned sideways, stretched out, his long legs crossed at the ankles. Talk about seeing wildlife. They didn’t come much wilder than him.
Note:
I deleted a good 5k words, because they didn’t work.
Part of this was already written, but never counted.
So yeah, I still have some catching up to do.
Title: Cursed Legacy - Vezien
Words Total Previous: 48,952
Words Written: 3226
Challenge Total: 16,582
Word Count: 52,178
Hero Mood: Very Horny
Heroine Mood: Freaked out
Story Snippet:
I’ve mostly edited and polished, so no snippet for now. Stuck on page 87 omg!
Seriously, I suck at this one at the moment. It’s been driving me mad.
I’m having to play a little catch up at the moment.
There was a pen show… and then a migraine… so nothing got posted, even though I added rather a LOT to this one.
That’s why the Day 12 progress is posted on the 13th. Otherwise I get totally confuddled.
Title: Cursed Legacy - Vezien
Words Total Previous: 43,243
Words Written: 5,709
Challenge Total: 13,356
Word Count: 48,952
Hero Mood: Very Horny
Heroine Mood: Freaked out
Story Snippet:
"Sorry about that," she croaked, sniffling. She blew her nose, only too aware what she must look like to him.
"Don’t apologize." He lifted her chin with his hand and met her tearful gaze. "Don’t ever apologize when someone hurts you."
She couldn’t stop a new flood of tears.
Vezien cursed and kissed her.
Sabriel gasped against his mouth, too shocked to stop him. She blinked the tears away, staring at him in utter confusion. He kissed the tears off her cheeks, so gentle, it almost made her cry again. Her breath came in gasps, her stomach did flip-flops - and her nose was still running. She couldn’t get over the fact that he didn’t draw back, nor did he pressure her. Sabriel rested her hand against his heart, stunned to feel it racing. He drew back slightly and looked at her.
"Don’t stop," she whispered.
I haven’t written a word on Vezien’s story, which bugs the hell out of me.
Instead I’ve been trying to shut up another one, which keeps yelling in my head.
In the end I figured as long as he’s screaming, he’s going to distract me from doing what I should be doing — so I’ll write him out of my head for now.
So todays update is not on Vezien, but on Taan instead.
Title: Cursed Legacy - Taan
Words Written: 4963
Challenge Total: 7647
Word Count - Taan: 3324 (+ 1639, Character interview)
Title: Cursed Legacy - Vezien
Words Total Previous: 42,454
Words Written: 789
Challenge Total: 2684
Word Count: 43,243
Hero Mood: —- None today. Fixes.
Heroine Mood: —- None today. Fixes.
Story Snippet: —- None today. I mainly did some fixes.
Title: Cursed Legacy - Vezien
Words Total Previous: 40,559
Words Written: 1,895
Challenge Total: 1,895
Word Count: 42,454
Hero Mood: Semi Frustrated
Heroine Mood: Confused
Story Snippet:
Sabriel slid slowly down the wall when the front door fell shut behind him. Her hand lifted to her lips, touching them as if they’d changed shape. They tingled. She could still feel his thumb there, couldn’t forget how he’d made her feel. She hadn’t wanted to feel anything. Not for him. Now she couldn’t get that look he’d given her out of her mind.
He’d looked at her as if she were the most precious thing in his world.
How the hell was a woman supposed to resist that?
For long minutes she just sat and stared at the door, her mind a jumble of contradicting thoughts, trying to get over her attraction to him. And she was attracted. Sabriel wouldn’t lie to herself, didn’t try to reason her feelings away. There was something about him that pulled her in, something that made her care when she wanted to hate him. It was all a total mess.
My challenge for October is going to be 21k Words. Again.
The update is on the right, in the progress meters as well, but I figured I put it in here too.
However… I’m going to do it in the form of a Tweety.
Also… I’ve started to mess around on Twitter. Eeek.
And here is the Tweety Format again:
Title: Cursed Legacy - Vezien
Words Written:
Words Total:
Hero Mood:
Heroine Mood:
Story Snippet:
I will probably update the word count at midnight, which is about an hour from now. Last night the count stood at: 40559 (This is mainly for my own reference so I know how I am getting on!)
SoCNoC Total: 2618516 words written by 143 participants
The End of SoCNoc!
60,000 words! OMG!
I am damned amazed at myself. The book isn’t finished, but I’m very close to finishing the first draft.
Another 10-15k and I’m done.
The total words of SoCNoC will probably go up a little more as the US guys post their totals, but damn, that’s over 2 and a half million words written in one month!
Way to go, everyone who took part!
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 1003
Words Total: 60056
Hero Mood: Annoyed and desperate
Heroine Mood: Still sick
Story Snippet:
"We can’t take her up there."
Mason pretended to be asleep. Up where?
"Not much choice, Nathan. He’s a mess. He’s probably in worse shape than she is."
They were talking about Sorol, she knew it in her gut. Mason had no idea who the guy with Nathan was, but it appeared he knew where Sorol was.
"That bad? I know Cáel said they were interrogating him, but-"
"Nate, they ganged up on him. Each one doing as much damage as possible. When I saw him, he had a broken jaw, both arms were dislocated. He had a hard time breathing, so I assume his ribs are broken too. Hell, they killed him six times already. Brought him back each time only to kill him again."
Oh God. Mason lifted her head, staring at the newcomer.
"Damn," Nathan said softly. "She heard."
I’m planning to have 60k written by tomorrow night, nearly there.
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 2364
Words Total: 59053
Hero Mood: Dead
Heroine Mood: Sick
Story Snippet:
Whoever stood behind him pulled on his arms again, making him twist in the chair they’d put him in. He managed to hold back the scream this time. Over and over fists slammed into his head, breaking the skin, breaking bone. He couldn’t open his eyes anymore, they were both swollen completely shut.
Another brutal hit made him black out, but a bucket of water brought him back to his senses.
"None of that," he heard Acwellan say before a fist slammed into his jaw.
Sorol gasped with the pain, breathing was close to impossible now. Someone hit him with what he assumed was a baseball bat, finally breaking his jaw. Blood exploded into his mouth and he tried to swallow, but the agony almost made him choke. Then the bat slammed into his chest, breaking ribs, driving one of them clean into his heart.
"You fucking idiot! You killed him!" I wish, Sorol thought.
"He deserves it," Cáel spat, hitting him again.
The pain stopped and Sorol felt himself slide forward in the chair before everything went black.
Here we go again!
I’m starting to use up the snippets I scribbled over the course of this little excercise, so the story is starting to come together — and it’s nearing the end!
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 1788
Words Total: 56469
Hero Mood: Desperate
Heroine Mood: Weak
Story Snippet:
"Remember that cantankerous old miner?" Alvarez asked, grinning ear to ear.
"Victor Jones." Sorol groaned loudly. "How could I forget that bastard? He salted my rear end with that elephant gun of his."
Mason’s eyes widened. "What?"
"About four miles down the mountain used to be an old mining shack. The guy who lived there thought we were after his claim." Alvarez explained. "I used to nose around there in my wolf form, but Sorol can’t shift, so I pretended to be his dog."
"Right. Why were you checking out the guy? Were you after his gold?" Mason frowned.
Sorol and Alvarez exchanged a sheepish look.
"What?"
"Well, Jones had a daughter." Alvarez said haltingly. "Real pretty. Not like the hags in the camps, but a real beauty of a girl."
Mason lifted a brow at Sorol.
He stiffened. "Ah no, don’t look at me like this. I was just there to distract the old man. The dog had the hots for her, not me."
Alvarez growled at him.
Sorol grinned. "Down, Lassie."
Seeing them squabble like this made her laugh again. "Lassie was a girl, Sorol."
His grin became even broader. "I know."
Not really slack, just not posting progress as much as I should.
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 4679
Words Total: 54681
Hero Mood: Beliggerent and worried
Heroine Mood: Bewildered but elated
Story Snippet:
He flashed a wolfish grin and Sorol wanted to grab him and throw him out. Damn that guy. They’d made a sport out of snagging each other’s conquests and Alvarez with his dark latin looks had triumphed more often than Sorol cared to remember. “Of course, I have to admit Sorol has impeccable taste in women. I should know, I usually run off with them.”
Mason laughed, which had Sorol glower at both of them. “Oh don’t be such a stick in the mud, Sorol. He’s joking!”
“He’s not,” Sorol muttered.
Mason gave Alvarez a wide-eyed look. “No?”
“I made off with a handful in the past.” Alvarez confirmed.
“You try to make off with this one, and I’m going to have a wolf skin rug,” Sorol promised.
Alvarez grinned and winked at Mason. “I think he’s serious.”
It is done! 50k in 3 weeks, not bad going, methinks!
However the story isn’t finished… lets see how much I manage to write in the last week!
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 2340
Words Total: 50002
Hero Mood: Oblivious
Heroine Mood: Half Dead
Story Snippet:
“Don’t do this. Please.” Dixie hoped her plea would change his mind, but deep down she could sense something evil in him. Oddly, Mason seemed afraid of him. All this time she’d wanted Sorol, and now he was here and she looked terrified. Dixie couldn’t work it out. Why didn’t she say something? “Mason, I can’t let him take you.”
She struggled to say something, but Sorol cut her off with a brutal kiss.
Dixie shook with terror. This was the man her sister claimed to love? A man who seemed to scare her half to death? “Don’t. Please don’t take her.”
“Out of my way.” Sorol wrenched her away from the door, tossing her behind him as if she were garbage.
Dixie slammed into the wall and slid down it, stunned. She saw him open the door, then everything went black.
After slackage, I’m catching up a bit. Neatly at the 50k though, so I think I can afford a little slackage.
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 3575
Words Total: 47342
Hero Mood: Devastated
Heroine Mood: Worried
Story Snippet:
“I should have stopped the bastard! I saw him, but Erzas went for him before I got there. Sorol took his head, Rag. He laughed at me, and disappeared.” Chaia’s eyes glittered with hatred. “He took his head.”
“Wait. Are you saying he left with it?” Raguel stared at the Nephilim.
“That’s what I’m saying.”
“Why would he do this? He’d feel as devastated as you do.” This made no sense. They couldn’t kill each other without feeling the loss of the soul, which generally prevented them from even trying. “You’re absolutely certain it was Sorol?”
Chaia lifted his eyes to Raguel, glaring at him. “I watched him cut Erzas’ head off, Rag! Of course I’m sure!”
 There are still a few hours to go, but I’m semi drunk so I better stop scribbling.
However, I’m getting very close to the 50k and I’m only half way through the month.
Yay me!
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 3073
Words Total: 43767
Hero Mood: Elated
Heroine Mood: Puzzled
Story Snippet:
Acwellan nodded. “Let’s get Raguel to put someone on watch here. He might come back.”
Cáel gave a harsh laugh. “He’s rogue. Not stupid.”
“Yeah.” Acwellan picked up an ancient looking pot and held it out to Cáel. “And he’s sentimental. From the way this is displayed, it means something to him.”
“Greek?”
“I’d say so.”
Acwellan was right. Sorol was sentimental. Cáel stared at the pot. Someone had made that, there were still handprints on it. Too small to be a man’s hand, too big for a child. A woman’s print, if he wasn’t mistaken. “You know… you might just be right. He will be back for that pot. I bet Arioch would recognize that handprint on it.”
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 3642
Words Total: 39886
Hero Mood: Tired
Heroine Mood: Playful
Story Snippet:
“What about you? Any secrets I should know about?” She knew there had to be. Maybe if she made light of it, he’d tell her. “Got any other girls stashed away someplace? An elephant sanctuary perhaps? Oh, I know! You wear contact lenses!”
“Contact lenses?” He stared down at her. “Why would I wear contact lenses?”
“The black eyes. You never told me what that was about.” Mason cupped his jaw in her hand. “You might not know it, but… they turn black sometimes. Like now.”
His hand lifted to his eyes. “Damn.”
“Well? What is it about? Why do they turn black?”
“They don’t.” He looked away. “They’re always black. I’m faking the human eyes.”
Those incredible blue eyes were fake? “What?”
I’ve had a monster session today.
Very proud of myself for hammering out all that.
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 7492
Words Total: 36244
Hero Mood: Worried
Heroine Mood: Still sick
Story Snippet:
Sorol snorted at that. “Yeah, right.” He nodded at the bruises. “Does that feel like I am?”
“No.” Rakan moved his shoulder and winced. “Fuck, what did you hit me with?”
“Funny you should say that. I’ve wondered the same thing.”
The Nephilim grimaced. “What do you expect me to do now? Let you go?”
“Yeah. I didn’t want to fight you in the first place.” Sorol said, a wry grin on his lips. “Figured you must have been hunting something. Leaving you for it to find and kill… Then I get back here and find a Ghul trying to eat you. Not very appetizing.”
“No shit.” Rakan looked around. “Where did it go?”
“Ran. Told it if it had eaten your fingers, I’ll be back to get them.” He grinned. “Guess the thought of being gutted wasn’t too appealing.”
Slow day today, worked long, so much less time to write.
I’ll try to make up some tomorrow.
Snippet time again, had some scenes that needed out of my head.
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 812
Words Total: 28752
Hero Mood: In agony
Heroine Mood: Sick
Story Snippet:
Sorol braced himself for the next assault. They’d been taking turns for the past three days, never giving his wounds and fractures time to heal. He had no doubt his face was a mess. His fingers were mashed and broken, his arms twisted, both his shoulders dislocated. They’d driven a spike through his left foot and broken the right one.
“I say we get Naiche up here, or even better, Nastael. Let a Rephaim dig the information out of his brain.” Acwellan stepped closer.
Sorol jerked, but said nothing. They all hated the Rephaim, and Nastael had more telepathic ability in his little finger than twenty Nephilim thrown together. He didn’t want the guy digging around in his brain, ever.
One of the three men in the room grabbed his wrists, wrenched them up and behind him. Sorol screamed with the agony they inflicted.
“Whoa. Musta hurt.” Vezien muttered, then grinned viciously. “Do it again.”
Well, I think I managed about 11k over the weekend, I think that’s a record for me.
Damn, I really want a laptop so I can sit outside in the sun and write!
I might even get some color, then!
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 5334
Words Total: 27940
Hero Mood: Frustrated
Heroine Mood: Smug
Story Snippet:
Sorol gave a shout of laughter, hearing her mischievous question. “You don’t give up, do you?”
“Nope. You’ll give in, some day.” Her eyes sparkled and she winked at him. “By the way, I’ve ruined a few pairs of your socks.”
“Ah.”
“And I’ve cut the bottom off another pair of sweatpants.” She held out her leg to him, which was clad in a pair of black pants. Minus the cuffs. “And I’m afraid Chooka has adopted me.”
He grinned. “Anything else I should know?”
She scrunched up her face as if thinking hard. “You’re out of coffee, so I depleted your tea.”
“Can’t leave you alone for five seconds, can I?”
“It was more than five seconds. Three days, fourteen hours and,” she turned his wrist to look at the watch he wore, “twenty three minutes.”
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 6065
Words Total: 22606
Hero Mood: Laid back
Heroine Mood: Tired
Story Snippet:
“If I keep asking, you might eventually slip up and say yes.” She chuckled. “Maybe I should start the day by asking you. One morning you’re going to be so out of it, you’ll just say yes to get me off your back.”
His reason for refusing was resolved, but she didn’t know that. “So you’ll trick me, and then we have a shotgun wedding?”
“Hey, whatever works!” Mason grinned, then became serious. “I wouldn’t trick you.”
“I know you wouldn’t.” Sorol hugged her close, but his phone started ringing again and he gave an irritated groan, turning his head toward the sound. “Will you give up, dammit!”
“Why are you arguing with your phone?”
“I’m not arguing with my phone. I’m merely refusing to answer, because I’m a little tired of lectures.” Sorol let go of her and headed toward his phone. He stared down at it, then stomped his heel into the casing until the ringing stopped. “There. Much better.”
“You know,” Mason stared at the completely obliterated cell phone, “you could have just turned it off.”
Well I got up at 8 this morning, and it’s 9 in the evening now. Wrote most of the day, aside from making food, talking someone through email setups and stuff, and… drinking a lot of coffee.
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 6909
Words Total: 16710
Hero Mood: Part horrified, part tempted
Heroine Mood: Frustrated and determined
Story Snippet:
“Yeah.” She leaned against the doorjamb and he could feel her eyes on him, despite having his back turned. “You were thinking about it, downstairs. That’s what that expression was about. I didn’t offend you. You were actually thinking about what it might be like to marry me.”
He jerked his head up, slamming it firmly into a shelf. “Ow, fuck!” Sorol rubbed the back of his head and gave her an incredulous look. How the hell had she figured that out? “What the hell gave you that idea?”
She grinned when he kept rubbing the back of his head. “Hurt, did it?”
Sorol sliced a black look at her. Dammit, yes, it had.
However, it was the semi final on The Apprentice and I got sucked into watching it lol.
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 635
Words Total: 9801
Hero Mood: Puzzled and exhausted
Heroine Mood: Relaxed and curious
Story Snippet:
She’d let him sleep half hour after that one, worried he might suffer otherwise, but the drug hadn’t worn completely off… Mason glanced at Sorol, who lay on his stomach, resting his head on one arm, the other arm on the other side, on top of the pillow. He looked positively worn out.
I only did disjointed scenes today, but it’s writing, so it counts.
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 2152
Words Total: 9166
Hero Mood: Despairing
Heroine Mood: Scared
Story Snippet:
“Maisie, he’s not coming back.” Nathan said gently.
“What? Why?” Where was he? Mason suddenly couldn’t breathe. Sorol was gone? He’d just… left? Or… “What did you do to him!”
“Nothing, I swear. He sent me to make sure you’re all right.” There was a shifty look in his eyes that belied his words. “Maisie, I’m here to help. I promise.”
Maisie. No one had called her that since… since… Her eyes widened. “Oh my God. I remember you! You’re ninja guy!”
Still doing it!
But I was slower today. Got tired.
Still, any progress is progress, right?
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 1953
Words Total: 7014
Hero Mood: Speechless
Heroine Mood: Wicked
Story Snippet:
“Dixie…” he groaned, wanting to get his hands on her but the chains were too short. “Dammit, Dixie, kiss me.”
She did, softly. “My name isn’t Dixie. It’s Mason.”
Sorol’s eyes snapped open. “What?”
“My name is Mason.”
Okay, I’m participating in the SoCNoC Challenge at the moment, so I figured I’ll combine it with the Tweety.
The challenge is to write 50,000 words between 1st and 30th June, preferably a new novel, a bit like the Nanothingymegickwhatsit.
So here is my daily, in the form of a Tweety.
Title: Cursed Legacy - Sorol
Words Written: 5061
Words Total: 5061
Hero Mood: Pissed off but confident
Heroine Mood: Mega frustrated
Story Snippet:
Sorol came back to the bed and knelt at her feet, keeping his distance. "Say you want me."
Mason shook her head, sobbing. "Please, please make it stop."
"Say you want me and I will," he ground out.
"I hate you!" She strained toward him, her foot touching his thigh, massaged the muscles there in an effort to turn him on.
He looked down at her foot. "Oh yeah, that’s really convincing."
"Touch me, dammit! You did this, now make it stop!"
"No." He smiled, watched her and moved out of reach. "Even if I did screw you, it wouldn’t stop. Deal with it."
It wouldn’t stop? What the hell had he given her? "How… long?"
Sorol got up. "Not that long. It’ll be over in a day or two."
A day? Two? Horror filled her. She couldn’t stay like this for two days, it would drive her insane. "Get an antidote!"
I’ve blogged on Wicked Wenches today, regarding music and writing, which is our theme of the week.
Also, over on Amanda’s blog, The Berry Patch, I really liked the way she does her updates on her WIP’s. So much so… I might just do a Three Week Efficiary Exercise Tallying Yarns.
A Tweety.
For my Tweety posts, naturally I need a new category, which we shall name… Tweety. (Well duh, you didn’t think I’ll call it Sylvester, did you?)
The Update Posts shall have the following format:
Title:
Words Written:
Words Total:
Hero Mood:
Heroine Mood:
Story Snippet:
