Yeah I gave in. I'm all over the place right now with my media. It's like playing where's Waldo - except with Nicole.
If you want updates on Rifts or any of the books I'm writing - you can get the skinny here - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nicole-Hamlett/270230679667759
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
And it's a wrap!
The first draft of Rifts is finished. I came in at 76,197 words. We'll see how much that fluctuates in editing.
I did the Snoopy dance and maybe the Cabbage Patch. God I love how it feels to finish a draft. :)
I did the Snoopy dance and maybe the Cabbage Patch. God I love how it feels to finish a draft. :)
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
NicoleHamlett.com is Live!
I have a swanky new website which is where I'll be updating. If you aren't following me there yet, you should be. :)
www.nicolehamlett.com is the address.
www.nicolehamlett.com is the address.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
We're Moving!
I am really super excited to tell you that nicolehamlett.com is moving to my new website soon! My friend Troy Pruyt who runs 78 Industries created an amazing, beautiful website for me that will allow for forums, product descriptions, the blog and all sorts of bells and whistles that I can't seem to wrap my head around.
Wooo! What this means is - the blog will still be here, but the address will change.
In an unrelated note - Rifts is open and I think I'm back to it. Huzzah. The goal was to have it published by August 1st. I think I slipped on that deadline quite a bit. However, not to fear - I have people working on nagging me to finish so we're going to get there and it may just be a few weeks late.
Wooo! What this means is - the blog will still be here, but the address will change.
In an unrelated note - Rifts is open and I think I'm back to it. Huzzah. The goal was to have it published by August 1st. I think I slipped on that deadline quite a bit. However, not to fear - I have people working on nagging me to finish so we're going to get there and it may just be a few weeks late.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Hunkering Down.... Or Not
The goal was to get the first draft finished by the end of this week. I uh.. didn't do that. However, I am on version five of Draft 1. O.O
It occurs to me that there is a reason that Huntress took nine months to write. Between the kid (who just got back last night), the job (which has been demanding quite a bit of attention) and um.. maybe dating (don't ask, it's not worth telling), Rifts hasn't gotten a whole lot of attention from me.
I'm trying to incorporate the feedback from the more positive reviews and I'm reading about creating a better flow. It used to be that Grace would "speak" to me and I'd write whatever she wanted me to. Well she doesn't always have her shit together and insists that I deal with it on my own. Which I struggle with.
Herein lies the biggest problem. In the midst of channeling Grace, I wrote something horribly magnificent for a cliff-hanger and actually just horrible. Because I can't slap it into the middle of my book without nuking the bejesus out of something in the end to top it, I have to fill in a hundred pages of - well - filler.
There is still character development to be done since I have new characters and she's spending a lot of time in Olympus during this book. (Sorry Colorado Springs, I still love you.) So I could make things happen but I find that I'm still exploring different plot concepts. Which - if I were a better, more disciplined writer - I would have done in the beginning.
Anyhow, it's coming along. Last word count was 37,198. I have four days off over the weekend and no significant plans other than hanging out with my child and pretending that I'm an attentive, well balanced mother. I am attentive... but the well balanced is an over-exaggeration of epic proportions. He accepts it so, I will too.
Maybe I'll strike gold in the inspiration department and get this baby wrapped up. Because then you know, I have to re-write the entire thing once or twice before it goes into editing.
It occurs to me that there is a reason that Huntress took nine months to write. Between the kid (who just got back last night), the job (which has been demanding quite a bit of attention) and um.. maybe dating (don't ask, it's not worth telling), Rifts hasn't gotten a whole lot of attention from me.
I'm trying to incorporate the feedback from the more positive reviews and I'm reading about creating a better flow. It used to be that Grace would "speak" to me and I'd write whatever she wanted me to. Well she doesn't always have her shit together and insists that I deal with it on my own. Which I struggle with.
Herein lies the biggest problem. In the midst of channeling Grace, I wrote something horribly magnificent for a cliff-hanger and actually just horrible. Because I can't slap it into the middle of my book without nuking the bejesus out of something in the end to top it, I have to fill in a hundred pages of - well - filler.
There is still character development to be done since I have new characters and she's spending a lot of time in Olympus during this book. (Sorry Colorado Springs, I still love you.) So I could make things happen but I find that I'm still exploring different plot concepts. Which - if I were a better, more disciplined writer - I would have done in the beginning.
I swear, I had an outline. But uh.. it got ignored and then burned into a steaming pile of ashes and refuse. Okay, maybe it was followed loosely.
Anyhow, it's coming along. Last word count was 37,198. I have four days off over the weekend and no significant plans other than hanging out with my child and pretending that I'm an attentive, well balanced mother. I am attentive... but the well balanced is an over-exaggeration of epic proportions. He accepts it so, I will too.
Maybe I'll strike gold in the inspiration department and get this baby wrapped up. Because then you know, I have to re-write the entire thing once or twice before it goes into editing.
...And your Funny LoL Catz Moment
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Grace in the Movies
So you're exclaiming WTF!? You got a movie deal? Hah, I wish. But no.
My friend Jon and I have fairly ridiculous conversations on a regular basis and I'm talking to him about getting a Publicist or a Manager - someone to deal with all of the marketing crap that I don't want to do or deal with. And invariably, our conversations lead to movies. This is what happened today. The names have not been changed to protect the innocent. Fuck him. He's not innocent. And I say that with as much love as one platonic friend can have for another.
Jon: books spoil their films so i tend to watch films :P
Me: I don't think that Grace is getting a film honey
Jon:mmm film honeys
look if some idiot paid for Book of Eli or Sucker Punch
you can have a goddamn movie
Me: I want a god damned movie!
Jon: that's better
Me: or at least someone to purchase the god damned rights to the movie
I also need a rich husband who will buy me a new laptop so I can write in the comfort of my deck chair
Jon: almost seems like it could be another kate beckinsale in tight rubber pants movie
Me: she'd have to wear Cargo pants, but yeah, I can see Kate as Grace
Jon: tight rubber cargo pants...work with me lol
Me: okay tight rubber cargo pants.
So if anyone decides to buy the rights - Please keep in mind that only Kate Beckinsale in tight rubber cargo pants will do. <.<
That is all.
My friend Jon and I have fairly ridiculous conversations on a regular basis and I'm talking to him about getting a Publicist or a Manager - someone to deal with all of the marketing crap that I don't want to do or deal with. And invariably, our conversations lead to movies. This is what happened today. The names have not been changed to protect the innocent. Fuck him. He's not innocent. And I say that with as much love as one platonic friend can have for another.
Jon: books spoil their films so i tend to watch films :P
Me: I don't think that Grace is getting a film honey
Jon:mmm film honeys
look if some idiot paid for Book of Eli or Sucker Punch
you can have a goddamn movie
Me: I want a god damned movie!
Jon: that's better
Me: or at least someone to purchase the god damned rights to the movie
I also need a rich husband who will buy me a new laptop so I can write in the comfort of my deck chair
Jon: almost seems like it could be another kate beckinsale in tight rubber pants movie
Me: she'd have to wear Cargo pants, but yeah, I can see Kate as Grace
Jon: tight rubber cargo pants...work with me lol
Me: okay tight rubber cargo pants.
So if anyone decides to buy the rights - Please keep in mind that only Kate Beckinsale in tight rubber cargo pants will do. <.<
That is all.
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