Feathered #2 – 19,000 words

I’ve had a very slow writing week this past week, mostly due to school holidays (the kids driving me crazy) and that my mother is in town and staying with us.

As a result I haven’t had a chance to get to the computer much, so I only managed a mere 5,000 words.

Today I did buy a keyboard for my iPad though, so I’m hoping that I’ll be able to steal some minutes here and there while I’m sitting on the sofa. That’s the plan anyway. Although I’m not sure how my writing process is going to work yet using the iPad, since the document is in Word.

I *think* I’m going to put the chapter I’m working on into Evernote and use that to focus on, before transferring it back to the word doc when I’ve finished, but I might experiment with a few other methods over the week as well to see what works best.

In the meantime, here’s another sneak peek.

100 words from Chapter 2:

The iron gates of the Michael’s house were already open, expecting her, and she drove up the long driveway, parking the car next to the neatly trimmed hedge. It had been a while since she had last been here, she shivered. The memory of what had happened to her, Zan and Henry last summer still clung to her as she stepped onto the front porch.

“Ruby, my dear. A pleasure, as always.” The wrinkles around Henry’s eyes softened as he gazed at her admiringly, before he pulled her inside for a warm embrace. “Your mother told me you were on …”