Feral Intensity

I dropped my word count goal for April to 20k after spectacular fails to hit 50k the prior three months. Happy to report I exceeded April’s goal with a total of 20,878 words written.

That brings my total word count for 2013 to 65,279, and I’ve written on 60 days of the 120 so far this year.

A tad over 7k of those words were on a new WIP, the possible first of a series, depending on how it does.

Here’s a little excerpt:

Being half-shifter does have advantages. I followed my nose, avoiding walking over graves, stubbing my toe on a half-buried rock, and doing my best to ignore the sweat rising on the back of my neck. A freshly dead body didn’t command respect from the birds roosting in the pines, singing their little hearts out about the heat. All the way across the cemetery from the body, I discovered a blackened skull lying in a circle of ash on a grave in my own damn family plot. I resettled my cap and squinted at the weathered headstone to check the name: Jedidiah Carson. A warlock of no small reputation, and my illustrious forebear who’d helped settle Braveblood. “Well, shit.”

I’m driving one of my beta readers for it crazy trying to figure out who the MC’s romantic interest will be. Heh.

I also added 7,511 words to The Psionics, not counting character bios.

I’m expecting May to be even better in the putting words down category, planning to finish Silk & Sin, this new WIP, and write more for The Psionics.

A new acquaintance will be interviewing me for her blog too, so stay tuned for a link to that.