Celebration time! I just got past the 50,000 word count mark on my current novel. Woooo! I am about to reward myself with a bath, but first a little update on my writing since it’s Wednesday.

Over the weekend I tried out the extreme portability of my new lappy and took it on the train up the coast. I managed to write about a thousand words each way, which was a very profitable use of my time. I felt very bourgeois when I did it too, which I think is another plus.

Story wise I am heading into the big battle, the beginning of the end of the book. I’ve had screaming matches between characters, spell casting, spell casting going wrong, a reconciliation and sexual harassment. Soon it will all be on. And by on I mean, pronounced like Awn. Should be pretty darn good. Feeling psyched about it.

I am feeling a lot less psyched about finding an American agent. I am actually feeling overwhelmed by the wealth of information online. I may subscribe to a writer’s market kind of website in the end. It looks like a promising way to go. In the mean time I have been spending all my money on books so I might wait a bit.

(I also got Goth goggles to steampunk up my Kapcon LARP costume, they came today and look wicked awesome. I am chuffed.)

I feel like I should also be writing short stories, and reworking the first three chapters of Kiki and shopping WtWTCH? around more, but Rain is giving me no headspace for other stuff. Bolshy girl that she is she is demanding all my time and making thinking about other stuff hard. I’m both dreading and looking forward to finishing her story off.

The upside to my agent search of frustration is there is lots of good writing linky this week:

Cory Doctorow writes about sex in teen novels. Someone recently expressed surprise that I had a sex scene in my teen novel, I wanted to say something like this, but I didn’t manage it.

11 productivity tips that creative types already know.

Good solid advice from someone who knows.

This article about picking agents is full of sensible advice.

Funny: Instructions on how to write a bad novel. (Long but good.) You should really check out the whole poewar site actually, it’s full of awesome.