Now is waiting time...

Now that I've finished the book, I just have to wait for my mom and friends to edit it. The only things I can do now are write queries and find agents. I can't even send anything, because it isn't the final copy yet! Well, one of my friends who's an amazing artist told me that she'd be happy to do cover art and pictures of the characters sometimes too, and I took her up on that. She's reading the book now(or was, last time we talked) and she says that once she's done she'll work on a few cover ideas, as well as work on some characters. I'm interested on what they'll look like when she's done...I'm kinda bored now but I'll probably find something to do. I have a few ideas anyway...Plus, I COULD go to bed soon...lol.

bye! K.T. Koulos

Book is DONE!!

EEP EEEEP EEEEEP! DONNNNEEEEE!!! All I need to do now is get it printed, and let my mom and friend edit it, then I can let the next few days waste away on Sims 3!! YAY FOR WASTING AWAY DAYS ON SIMS 3! heehee...I'll calm down now, and go do what I have to do...and text my friend and tell her that my book was finished today! I finished writing the book on Christmas, I'll remember that...for those random things that people sometimes care about but not most of the time...

Almost there...EXCITEMENT!

Okay, so I'm at 59.6k words now...I had to write 2k a day just a few days ago...and now I have a week to write 5k! I'll still write as much as I can each day, but since it's 10pm Christmas eve and stuff, I'm gonna go to my room after eating something really fast and TRY to fall asleep. I can't wait to finish the book! I'll finally have a break from writing THAT...so I can write fanfiction, just for fun, instead! Or I can work on the books sequel, or better yet, I can work on ANOTHER book! I have to wait until my editors finish editing the book, then I have to go through and edit it myself. After that I think I'll write queries and send of the queries and hope someone likes my book!

Happy holidays, and good night!
K.T. Koulos

Making progress...Lots of progress.

I'm VERY excited to say that I'm at 50k words! actually, I'm at 51k...and I don't think I'm done writing 'tonight' yet! (even though it's actually a little past midnight...) I'm having a hard time forming the correct words, but I know what I want to happen, and I'm making the words come, after a bit of difficulty! If it's the same length of my last copy, this will only be another 14,000 words or so. That means I could afford writing a little less than 2,000 a day for the next 8! OR...I could just keep writing and write as much as I can in one day, and hopefully write the book to be slightly longer! It's kinda disappointing that I can't write a huge book, that's like, 800,000 words long, but shorter books can be good too! Plus, I think my plot's good enough and my writing style is good enough(and getting better) that it won't matter the length of the book or my age. My friend knows a teen in our grade who got a literary agent, so I can too! I'll shut up now, and keep writing until I'm falling asleep on my desk. Or until I REALLY wanna go to sleep...either way...bye for now!

Doing good!

Okay, so I'm on chapter 11 and I've been doing pretty good, but I haven't written that much today...I know that I can actually afford not writing all 2000 words today, and I've already written 1k, but I really SHOULD write all 2k. well, it's only a little after 5 and I stay up til around 11 usually, so I guess I'll just have to try to get my 2k done, and then probably keep going...the more I write each day and the closer I get to done, the better! (but I'm not gonna write 20 pages a day like Kaleb Nation says he has to do...) I can't wait until I finish it. I think tonight I may get to one of the really really big parts of the book, one of the huge twists, but that's only if I get to around 50k words, I think. Well, bye now!

I'm doing good now...

Yesterday I wrote around 3 or 4k words, and found out that I need to write 2k a day for the next 12 days, including today, until New Years Eve and Xmas. I think after that though, I'll be able to relax. I'll have it printed out for my mom to edit and I'll send it to my friend to edit and I'll either work on other books or read or play Sims. I may end up just playing Sims almost 24/7 minus when I'm hanging out with friends for 3 days straight. then I have to go back to school...maybe during February I'll start editing it myself, if my mom finishes editing her copy by then...I wonder if it'd be possibly to get it published by the end of 2010? Ooooh I really can't make that my goal...but my goal will be to find a literary agent by the end of 2010. I'll be a Junior by then! This is pretty exciting to think about...I started this book really early this year, and for it to be finished in less than a year would be amazing...of course, this is only the second copy...I may need to write ANOTHER copy of it...-faints-well, I'm gonna go write the last 200 words of my 2k for today, and maybe continue so I'll possibly be able to take a break on Xmas...bye now!

13 days, too many words...

So...my goal was to be able to finish this book, at least the writing of this copy, by the end of this year. 13 days away. I just wrote a thousand words in about an hour, and there's plenty more time tonight for me to hopefully churn out a good 2k, 3k, or 4k words, if not more. I need, actually, a little under 30,000 words to get it to what it was before, or close. 28k now, actually. I'm going to continue working on the book, and try to get to 40k words tonight...(I have 37.6k done). Bye!

I...hate...writers block!!

Okay, because I'm 15 and all and in highschool, I have finals. my finals are not this upcoming wednesday to friday but the next all that. BUT I'm going to force myself to study most of the time and not hang out with friends, and probably not write much over the next 2 weeks, starting tomorrow, until Friday night. I hope I do well on my finals!! after that, thank God, is winter break, and that means I'll have a break! over those 2 weeks, I will probably play Sims and write a LOT. I have over 34k words, which means I only have around 30k until it's as long as it was before!! I can't wait...I can't write right now because my sister is using my computer for a good reason, so I'm using her laptop. BUT these keys piss me off. anyway, once I put this up, I'm going to find other things to do for a bit until my sis finishes writing and all.

Going now...Byebye!

Never Mind... :D

Okay um...yah no. I had a writers RUSH tonight! I loved it! I wrote over 2.9k words tonight and got from having around 27k words to having 30k!! YAAAY! that's awesome, that's a bigger writing rush than I've had in a long time, since my first copy of the book, I think. I just hope all that I wrote tonight was good writing, not just shit. And I got out of a boring slump in it too! And my mood is way better! I REALLY need to get some sleep now, but I'll be back tomorrow, hopefully, and I may write something near that almost 3k, but since I'll have to do hw too, I don't know. hopefully! Cuz if it stays through tomorrow night, I...I dont' know, I'll just be really really excited!

Semi-writers-BLOCK

boohoo. sad. I am having writers block. Not MAJOR writers block, but I feel as though I can't make myself...write right! I have written well enough today, but I need to write MORE, FASTER.

writers rush?

I don't know if this is a writers rush...probably not, but I DID finish my 1k words for the day! and now I still want to write, so I'm guessing it is! I don't care, I'm just happy to be getting so much written! So far, in two days I wrote over 3k words! That's awesome for me! I'd be even happier if I reached 2k tonight! Sadly, I don't know if I will, since I may be going halloween costume shopping and I have to do homework! I think I may stop writing soon, finish some homework, and go back to writing! anyway, I say bye for now so I can get a bit more written before I ditch my book for the school books.

*Quick Update*

Going to sleep now, or to read or something on my bed. Anyway, off computer. Today I wrote exactly 2,330 words and went on a site that seems VERY helpful...I can't wait until I finish writing this thing and can actually write some queries and send them out! I have a huge list of people I'm sending to, considering it's my first book and it would help if I sent it to a lot of people at once so I can have a higher chance to get my Agent! I'm in a good mood, though I'm tired, and I can't wait for tomorrow! Who knows how much I will write tomorrow!! So for now I say byebye! :D

I'm on a writing rush...or I just was and I just got off it.

Okay, so I COULD shut up and not update again tonight but I just wanted to update you guys AGAIN on this. I am still working on chapter 3, and it's only somewhere between 3k and 4k words, but just tonight I've written almost 2k. That makes me really, really, excited, because that's what I was writing back in May, when I did all those 69 posts and was still on my first copy. Now, it's way harder, since I'm trying to get a higher quality writing so I have to pay more attention to my words and not repeating a word too much too close together. This makes me really proud of myself! If I keep writing tonight, and get really high in words just written tonight, I'll be really excited! The more done now, the closer I am to finishing this copy of the book, the closer I am to getting an agent and feeling special and getting my book published! Which means moolah for me!(If I kept going it would mean a laptop for me that's big and expensive and awesome and an iPod touch and more awesome things :D, oh, and money saved up for college... :P )

Doing pretty good...

Another random post. I've been doing good, writing over 1k words a night, but I had a problem when I was sick earlier this week and didn't write for maybe 2 days. I think I made up one of those days almost, but it really doesn't matter, because it's not like I'm going to get in trouble! I had a writers rush, but what I just wrote is just a lot of Zoe(main character, if you don't know) thinking. Nothin much other than that. I'm at almost 24,000 though! At minimum, I want to write another 40,000 words in this story. AND I thought of a one-shot for my OWN book...but I can't put it in my book, because it just can't fit in anywhere. Anyway, I feel better now, thank goodness, and I'll be hopefully writing more than 1k per night for a lot of nights, so I can get this book out FASTER than that! Oi...I don't wanna think about what the next step is after I write it...considering it's having at least 2 or 3 people I trust editing it and others reading it...ahhh editinggg...THEIR editing equals my editing and editing their editings. then I have to reread it to make sure there's no major mistakes because I don't want any mistakes in mah book, and all that before I can write a query! BAH oh well. I'm gonna keep writing, try to get another 400 words at LEAST out of me tonight, probably more. bye!

semi-writing-rush back?

Well, I'm in a sorta-kind-writing-rush right now. I started writing at 4 tonight, and have almost 2k words written! yay! And I ended up getting rid of A LOT of events, shortening them and making everything closer together. All the events from Chapter's 5, 6, and 7 seem to be written in chapter 4 and 5, so far. That means that there's probably going to be less chapters. That's okay though, since I already had 28 chapters, making it into 23 or 24 won't hurt the book. I think this copy is better anyway. So, I've kinda broken my promises a lot. I just made it to 20,000 tonight, weeks after I said I would, but I'm hoping to be able to write it faster now. Like, I'll probably stop reading and playing so many games and I'll start writing way more, hopefully, I'll be able to force myself to finish at least 1k words a night, sometimes more, which means I'll hopefully finish it before the next 60 days passes! probably not, but still! It'd feel awesome to finish writing this book in 2009, the same year I started writing it! Anyway, since I'm almost done with 2k and I'm at around 21k right now, I'll try getting to 22k words tonight, and tomorrow reach 23k. I think 1k a day is a more realistic and reachable goal that 10k per week! So I'm going to finish that now...byebye!!

Another Chapter Finished!

So, just now, I almost wrote 2,000 words! I finished chapter 3 as well. almost 17,000 words done. I think this weekends goal will be 20k and I'll keep doing every OTHER weekends goal is another 10k. that makes more sense for me, at the moment. Anyway, I'm gonna go write some of chapter 4! I just have to skim over the OLD chapter 4 and organize what I want and don't want from then.

Sadly, I had a smaller bout of Writers Block

Again, I had writers block for the week. It was very small, and went on and off, but all through the week, when I could write, it wasn't at the super-speed it was at before, therefore, I only got to about 13,000 words. All this means is that tomorrow, after I finish my homework, I will have to continue to try to write a lot. If my mini-writers-block continues for the next whole week, I will lower my goals until I have another day off at school. my next extra day off of school is 2 mondays from now, and then that week we also have tuesday off...I'm guessing I may get to 30,000 by the sunday of that week. Just maybe. For now, I will make my next goal still be 30,000 and try to reach it next sunday.

WOOHOOO!

Yaaay! I made my goal! I kinda forgot about it until 8:30, an hour ago, and had about 1k words left, a little more, but I was really happy because I had a writing rush and finished writing that 1k+ in 60 minutes! YAAAY! I'm SUPER happy!! I also just finished ch. 2. :D I'm making a new goal for myself too.:

IF my writing rush continues for the next week, I want to write another 10k words, and reach about 20k, by next Sunday at 10:00. BUT if I have a lot of homework to do, I'll understand if I get 7.5k words done. My penalty(my mom gave me this idea to give myself a penalty or punishment for not reaching my goal) Will be to try to reach 30k by the weekend after next, if I don't reach 20k this weekend.

Summary: I'm gonna try to write 10k words a week. If I don't, I'm going to try to catch up over the next week. but, if my writing rush ends, I'll slow down or take a break. I don't wanna slow down though! I wanna keep myself writing!

BECAUSE I reached my goal and have, now that it's about 9:40, another 20 minutes to write, I will try to get ahead and write another few hundred words. However ahead I get in my writing will never affect my next word goal. Even if I just need to write another 100 words by the time I reach the week where I'm trying to get 40k words, I'll do it. BUT if I get to a point where my next goal is complete before I have to start working on it, lets say that I get to 50k that weekend that I have to write 40k, my next goal WON'T be 50k, since I kinda already completed it. INSTEAD, my goal for the next weekend will be 60k. wow...when I reach 70k(if it gets that high) I'll be 5k words longer than my last draft! YAY!

NOW I will write-write-write!

Awww...have to stop.

I have to go somewhere now, but so far I've finished another 1,600 or so words. at about 7,600. I'll try to write more tonight but I may not get a chance. If not, I'll continue after a club I'm going to and before my friend comes. I PROMISE myself that I'll get to 10k by Sunday!

This is gonna take a while...

So, I'm almost done rewriting the first chapter. and it's a total of 4,000 words than it originally was!! After deleting un-needed areas as I'm rewriting, I think my book will be at least 70,000 words long, if not 80,000. I'm kinda hoping it'll be 100,000 words though!! I'm going to get back to writing, because now that I just reached 6,000 words, I hope to make it to 10,000 tonight, if I don't get destracted. that'd be half of what I'd have written on the second copy, written in a night! (and a tenth of what I WANT to write for the rewrite...). It'll probably take just another 500 0r 700 words to finish the first chapter.

AAAHHHH! PROCRASTINATION HAS TAKEN A HOLD OF MEEEE!!

AAAAH! I'm procrastinating. Not by writing this. By playing Sims. and doing homework. but really, homework isn't procrastinating. anyway, I've decided one thing. I WILL finish writing chapter one(in the first books timeline) TONIGHT! I promise to myself that I will write and write and write and STOP being a procrastinator like I am. Eh, or at least I'll try to be LESS of one. I'm downloading pictures onto the Sims site because I write a legacy there, but it's long from finishing, so I'll probably have no time to write the leg chapter and hopefully finish the books chapter. I think I'm already close to done anyway...for the first chapter. I'd tell you where I am but you're not allowed to read it. I'll give all of you...the few of you that read this...the prologue though!! It's just a small thing but hey, it's something! And if you like the prologue, PLEASE have your friends and others read it. Try to get me some hopefully-future-book-buyers! anyway, here's the prologue of the second draft, as of now:

Loss haunts. The pain of loss, of losing him, after losing so many people dear to my heart before is too strong. I couldn’t deal with it if that happened to me again. He wasn’t perfect, no one was, but he was close enough for me. I can’t imagine never seeing those amazingly green eyes smiling at me, those full, beautiful, lips showing white, perfect, teeth through a wide smile.

Without him, life wouldn’t be life, it’d be an empty shell consisting of passing time, events I couldn’t care less about, and sadness, unless I decided to end my life soon after his.

how do you like it? please post a comment!!

Rewriting still!

Ello! sorry I haven't been updating anyone lately; I haven't done much work on my book. I'm glad to say, though, that I've been doing pretty well on the rewriting. the new book I started last night, called Evernight, is absolutely amazing. The author, Alyson Noel, is absolutely an amazing author. Just the first SENTANCE made me think 'woah...this rocks.' I'm gonna put the first sentance or paragraph or whatever here for you to read:

"Guess who?"

Haven's warm, clammy, palms press hard against my cheeksas the tarnished edge of her silver skill ring leaves a smudge on my skin. And even though my eyes are covered and closed, I know that her dyed black hair is parted in the middle, her black vinyl corset is worn over a turtleneck (keeping in compliance with our school's dress-code policy), her brand-new, floor-sweeping, black satin skirt already has a hole near the hem where she caught it with the toe of her Doc Martens boots, and her eyes appear gold but that's only because she's wearing yellow contacts.

I also know her dad isn't away on "business" like he said, her moms personal trainer is way more "personal" than "trainer," and her little brother broke her Evanescence CD but he's too afraid to tell her.

but I don't know any of this from spying or peeking or even being told. I know because I'm psychic.


NOW who can tell me how AWESOME that writing is? seriously she's one of the best authors I've ever read. I think I may just need to add her to my list of authors who's books I want to collect. Anyway, I don't remember if I mentioned that I made the first page in my original copy of my book into 2,000 words. And the font is one size smaller on the rewriting than in the original and it STILL takes up more pages!! I can't wait to completely finish writing this book and actually FINISH it.

Pen Name Change

Short entry: I've changed my pen name.

Katie Koulos, K.T. Koulos. I like the second :D easier to sign if I ever have to practice autographs, which I've never done before :D

Rewriting. yay?

So, quite some time ago, I started rewriting my book. The prologue alone is much better than the original. I have time today, I think I'm gonna work on that or this short story I felt like writing. I may start a blog with just short stories, not sure though. I don't write that many of them. I may as well start one, and just keep it there. BTW, if you know anyone who is interested in this kinda stuff, please pass on my blog!! The more readers the better!!

Wow...(#2?)

wow...I just read the most useful thing in ages for writing on Nathan Bransford's blog. Every time I look at it, I have to kick myself and remind myself that I have to rewrite my entire book because my entire book is horrible compared to what it COULD be. It's going to take me forever to fix the whole book well enough to get it published...in the mean time, I think I may start a NEW one. I promised myself I wouldn't ditch that book, and I totally am NOT ditching it, but still...

No, I won't start a new one. I can probably go get my printed copy and edit the whole thing a LOT better now. (or I can read the blog and remind myself how to write my book way better then edit it a LOT tonight...)-sigh- I wonder if I'll get a full night's sleep tonight.

Wow...

Huh...I just realized that I haven't been on here in forever. Anyway, still nothin new. I'm STILL editing it...-yawn- This is the WORST part of writing. But ya know what? I'm willing to live with that boring part. Writing is still fun.

The pool has good music choice!!

So, yesterday or Tuesday, I can't remember, I went to the pool. In the middle of swimming, I hear the song 'Fallen' by Sarah Mclachlan. One of my favorite songs, and on my list!! A little bit later, I hear Your Guardian Angel by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus! That's also on my list!!!! I hear other songs, but none that I can remember other than those two. No...wait...I also hear The Reason by Hoobastank, also a favorite of mine and on my book-songs list!!! I think this is humourous!!

Lots of editors...again.

Yet again, I'm gonna talk about having my book edited. If you don't know, I'll catch you up on who's edited it, who will, and who is editing it now. sooo...

Kait edited it first

Then my friend Audra printed a copy and edited it, though I told her not to...ah well.

Then I started editing it, and I'm not even halfway through

BUT my friend name Rose is editing it now. Or she's done but I haven't gotten it yet.

Me, Audra, and Rose all edited it on the printed copy Audra printed for me. the NEXT thing I do is I have to go through and mesh together the printed copy and Kait's copy, and the original, until I find it perfected.

After that, my mom insists on editing it.

Then I have to edit it again to make sure she didn't change something I wanted the way it was.

I check over it all once again, just to make sure it's perfect, then.

That equals 8 times. and that's before I send it off to literary agents. When I DO, if I get rejected, I have to fix it and send it to some other literary agents, until someone finally accepts it...Even then, people edit their books as they're getting it published, so yeah...editing is a long process. I hope that I have the book out in a year or 2 though! That'd be AWESOME!

Family got hyper....

So, somehow, a lot of my family didn't know I was writing a book or getting it published(basically, no one there except my grandparents, mom, and sis.) So my youngest cousin, let's call her M, get's really happy. Here's the closest thing I remember to this little conversation. Grandma is grandma, A is my boy cousin, M is my girl cousin, and Me is me. obviously.
M: So I can tell my friends that my cousin is actually getting a book published in book stores?
Me: Uh...not yet. I'm not really sure yet.
Grandma: So do you need to take it somewhere?(as in, in person.)
Me: No, yiayia(I'm Greek, that's Greek for grandma if you didn't know), I can do the whole thing on the internet!
Grandma: Well, tell me if you need to pay for anything, I will pay for it.
A: Did you already get the publishers?
Me: Not yet...I'm editing.
Grandma, to A, as I say 'I"m editing': No, she's editing it.
A: What's it about?
Me: A gir-
A: I'm not buyin it! I'm not buyin it!(joking)

I felt special :D I can't remember the rest of the questions. What I do remember a lot of was 'she's writing a book? Katie, you're writing a book?' 's. Yeah. I still felt special :D I'm RARELY the center of attention with my family, and I usually don't like it, but right then, I felt special. Especially since M was so excited about it. That REALLY made me happy.

I need to catch up now...lol

hola. Kait finished editing and sent me it, and I went through and read/fixed the areas she said were wrong in comments. I have to finish editing my own copy now and then continue with the plan. About 20 days from now, I hope I'm gonna be able to send it off...busybusy...

Still Editing...but good news HAS come!

Blah...Still Publishing...but I WILL make myself do it multiple times....It's just gonna take a LONG time. Kait told me that she finished editing it, but she can't send it because of internet issues until it works...(she said today or tomorrow I'll get it) but I don't mind. The other friend finished and gave it to me printed in 113 pages. That's the one I'm editing, on top of her editing marks. I'm only on page 10. I have PLENTY more to edit and I can TOTALLY wait to get Kait's. Once I mesh them into one copy that could be considered edited 3-4 times(Kait's, the other friends, mine, and mine while I was mixing them together) I MAY send it off to someone else...so they can edit it and I can mesh THEM together until it's perfect again. Then I'll edit it for hopefully the last time. Unless I feel like it isn't perfect. Then I'll send it off for someone to edit...again. I read something on Nathan Bransford's blog about making sure it's perfect, and how to get an agent...he says that once it's perfect, an author needs to do something ELSE before they try to get it published. I may do that, but I may not...depends...but hopefully I'll find an agent by the end of this gonna-be-busy summer. Or at least TRY to find an agent. depends :D

Eep! I'm waay happy!

I'm waaay happy for apparently no reason, other than I really want to send the book off to agents!! You have no idea how hard it is to keep myself from sending an unedited version to the literary agents...thankfully, I'm able to convince myself that I need to have it edited by at LEAST my friend...I may do that and then just another friend and be done...skip the mom part. :D. Other than that, I have to start writing fanfiction again, especially my favorite fanfiction I've written so far and my chapter of a shared one...

Playlist, More happy news, and a bunch of editors, oh my!

Ok, so I chose the top 10 songs. To give you a little hint of what the book could possibly be about (a VERY little hint...lol) Here's the list of songs:

Nobody's Home by Avril Lavigne
She's Everything by Brad Paisley
Jesus Take The Wheel by Carrie Underwood
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams by Greenday
The Reason by Hoobastank
When You Look Me In The Eyes by the Jonas Brothers(Jobro haters, don't kill me!)
Everything by Lifehouse
Your Guardian Angel by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Fallen by Sarah McLachlan
A Place In This World by Taylor Swift(Taylor Haters, please don't kill me!)

Each of those songs is just about PERFECT for the book. At least, a section of it...

The OTHER happy news is that my friend, who's editing it first(kait) has finished reading it!! She loves it!!! And she wants one of the characters...lol. it's ok though! I want him too!! :D

The last thing on the list, about a bunch of editors, is just me listing out who's editing it...

Kait went first, obviously then...
I am going through once before sending it off again to...
My Mom, who's basically doing the same thing as Kait...-shrugs- may as well be careful. Then...
Me again! Checking my moms and getting rid of any really unwanted or unneeded sections. I think there MAY be a few more...they are...
Mah Sista, but probably not her
Me again, to edit sister's, if she does do it
My friend, Audra, again, if she wants to, and...
Me, for a VERY last time.

After that me writes a query and sends it off..redoing the query in certain areas for every agent I send it to. I hope I can get to this step by the beginning of school next year!!

Lotta songs...

Hola. I'm trying to make a list of songs for the book, which I've decided to call Watching Over Me, and it's going well! A little too well, actually...Less than halfway through all my songs, and I have 24 songs. Once I go through all of it, I'm gonna have to choose songs that are too broad...but I'll still probably have a huge list! lol...this is gonna take a while! Oh! and it's OFFICIALLY SUMMER! Now with finals done with, I can start blogging again and start working on my story again! even just 3 days off felt like forever...though I talked about it to a lot of people...-shrugs-

Editing plans...sorta

I can't really set dates on when I want to finish editing it, cuz my friend is editing it, and then my mom is, plus me doing it twice, so I don't know exactly when it'll be done, but I'm hoping by the end of this month!! I've already got friends who want to read it, and it's making me really happy!! yayness!! I can't wait to send it off!! On a separate note, I'm making a sorta playlist of songs I adore for this book...one of them is a dead giveaway, but it is literally perfect for the book. Your Guardian Angel by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Another is Fallen by Sarah McLachlan. I'm gonna make a complete list of about 10 or 12 awesome songs, and when I make a website(I hear it helps to have a website for selling books) I'm gonna put them in. ooh...another song could be The Reason by Hoobastank. yaaay for good songs!!

YESH!!

-dances- mah book is done! Mah book is done! Mah book is DONE, DONE, DONE!! yaaaaay!! And I finished it exactly at 11:31 tonight!! told ya guys I'd finish it within 40 minutes :D I shall go to sleep now, and be well rested for a day full of studying and a break from writing for the next 4 days. But, as soon as I finish that last final on Friday, that Spanish final, I'll be editing my butt off. OH! I should tell you the final word count of my story.

Without the chapter headings, there are exactly 65,029 words. Over 2,000 paragraphs and 338,000 characters, and almost 5,000 lines. Oh, and about a month of writing and writing more and more. :D. This is possibly my biggest accomplishment ever. -proudness-

last REAL chapter doonnnnne!

YAY! I finished chapter 28, while staying up late!! Now I'm writing the epilogue, and I think I'll be able to finish it tonight, if my mom doesn't make me go to bed soon. I bet it'll only take about 40 minutes to write! By 11:30 I'll hope to be done with it! I forgot to say, I have 64,104 words so far! I think with a 900 word epilogue I'll be safe!

Huh...guess not...

I also forgot that the MTV awards are on and they're showing the trailer for New Moon. I guess I'll just take a break then too...ah well!!

It’s literally long enough!

Yay! It’s over 6000!! Actually, right now, it’s 6105!!! And that’s not even the end yet!! I still have at least another 2000 words to shove out of me and on paper!! I’m sad to be a day late though…Oh well!! I was close enough! Anyway, I have 7.5 hours left until me has to go to bed, since school is tomorrow, –sigh-. Anywayz, I’ll be writing the rest of the night away!! Or I’ll be studying…

Oh! Plan! I’ll just write for the next hour and a half(plenty of time) and at 4, I’ll stop and spend the rest of the night studying my ass off. And talking to friends. Mostly studying. Ok, it’s time for me to shut up and get back to writing. Chapter 28, here I come!

AGH!!

just tried emailing and many other ways to put it up...nothing working...hope I can think of something fast! Ok. Now I did. And it worked. FictionPress.com to the rescue! -downloaded everything needed onto there- sure, I'm gonna have to fix it and all later on, but for now, fictionpress will have to do. I'll try to at least finish 27 during the party, then I can stay up late and finish the book, if it's not yet finished, when I get home. yay!

-sigh-

Mah sisters graduation party is today. And I don't have time for writing at the moment. Instead, I shall send EVERYTHING to myself by pasting it onto a gmail email, and hope that I can get some time to write on my grandma's laptop...I have to set back mah goal to tomorrow. -sad-

Happy and Healthy!

YAAY! last night I wrote the climax. Or part of it. As you already know. Well, it's almost time for the end of the whole book!! just another 1000 words or so!! well...that's until the minimum...it'll probably be a few hundred or thousand more than the minimum though

26, and the CLIMAX is done!!

yaaay! I've been saying I'd get the climax done soon for ages, and finally, I did! It's only really about 1,500 words long, which is way less than I wanted, but added with a little random junk at the beginning, it made a complete chapter. Plus, there's at LEAST another 2,000, maybe 4,000 words worth of aftermath to write about. Including...crap...I almost said the end of the book...that woulda been bad, I guess...even though no one reads this...whateva!

Ugh...sick...

-sigh- I wrote very little today...mostly because I spent most of my afternoon in bed hoping I wouldn't throw up again. That or throwing up. -sad- anyway, now I feel good enough and I finished the book I was reading, so I'm gonna try to get the rest of 26 written. And maybe more. depends. Good thing is I'll be staying home tomorrow even if I feel better(and if mom makes me go, I can just tell them that I barfed and they'll send me home :D) Anyway, 4,000 or so words left, and 2 days...crap...hopefully once I fall asleep and wake up again, whenever that is, I'll be in a writing mood. a HUGE writing mood. A writing mood that means finishing the book, preferably.

1 day, 2 chapters!!

yaaay! You know how I had taken forever to finish 24? Well, not the same deal with 25. finished in about 2 hours! NOW the total word count is 56,546!!!!! And 25 isn't even the prologue, cuz I remembered that I wanted to add something else earlier!! What I got is pretty good, I'd say. YAAAY! now I have to go to bed though...-sigh- I will promise myself now that I want to at LEAST finish 26 tomorrow, and that the climax will be at least 2 chapters long! Unless I write a 4,000 word chapter for the climax...-shrugs- whateva

24 done! Word Count!

As it says above, 24 is now complete! I’m WAY behind, but I still have 4 days, and a chapter a night will have me done on time! I’m going to start working on 25 tonight…I have a hour and a half, about, hopefully I can finish most of it!!

The word count right now is 54,272!!! YAAY! only about 6,000 words left!!!

-sigh- Home at last!!

aah, I'm back home, at last, and ready to write the next four hours away!! First comes trying to rewrite what I had yesterday, and then comes finishing 24 and maybe 25!! yaaaaay!! I don't know how much longer I'm gonna make it until the climax though...It's gonna be soon, but not TOO soon, me thinks.

AAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

OMFG!!!! IT'S ALL GONE!!! All of chapter 24 just.....GOOONE!!! the damn document saved as an EMPTY thing, not even in the right FORMAT!! it's ALL gone!!!! ALL!!!! 1,500 words of work just GONE!! And I can't remember what I wrote!!!!! AAAAAAAARGHHHHH!! can I damn kill this stupid computer?!??!!?!?!?!?!?!!?!!?!?!?!!?! -gets an ax- as soon as I finish this book, it's going to friends so they can save it wherever so I don't have to loose ALL of it suddenly and randomly.

Suffering for the Arts...At least, I count creative writing as an art!

Ah, I'm suffering for my art, as in, I'm going to be exhausted and I should probably have started studying a while ago for finals, but at least I'm getting a lot of my book done! Staying up late may not always be good, but I'm almost done with ch 24!! I'm going to try to finish it NOW, and then I'll finish at least a chapter tomorrow, though if I get to the climax, which I think I will be getting to in 25 or 26, I may want to finish it. I'll probably make the climax really really detailed, I mean, I need another 8000 words at LEAST! Or maybe I'll add another chapter or two of fluff after the climax? Or maybe I'll take a few chapters for after the climax! yaay! I think I'll get it!! Now I'll shut up and get to writing a few more sentences before my mom makes me go to bed...-sigh-

23, and goal complete!!

YAAAY!! I wrote ch. 23 to be over 3,000 words!! That's way more than I needed, but now the book is at 52,070 words!!! YAAAAY!! I'm SO close to getting it done!! and I'm in a writing mood right now!!!! poop...it's almost 3...I have to pause on my writing so I can do hw...

Like they told me a time...

-sigh- I missed the parade, but I COULD have gotten up earlier, if anyone in the family had bothered to tell me what time the parade was at. but nope. my family is WAY to smart to tell me anything. Anyway, it's kinda good, since I have way more time to annotate and write...ugh...I have to annotate. Remind me to NEVER let them put my book on an English curriculum, please. I don't want kids hating my book.

Goals changed a bit, sortakinda....

I did what I said I'd do...I don't have a certain # of chappies I want to finish anymore, I just want to get:

May 25, 50,000 words
May 30, 60,000 words

and then that's basically it. anything I write after that will just be for adding words to it to make it so I can edit it without worrying about deleting words and making it too small.

Busy Busy Busy

I may end up needing to back up my goals again...but I'm not going to do that until I have to go to bed, in about 8 or so hours. Until then, I also have a parade to go to and book to annotate...but I'll try to finish ch 23 now, annotate, write ch 24, finish annotating, write ch 25...anyway, I'm WAY close to my goal, and if I make 23 really long, I think I may be done by ch 27 or even earlier!! THAT may even be pushing it!! I'm thinking of just deleting the amount of chapters I want to get done, and just say I want 50000 by today, and 60000 by next Saturday...Maybe I'll spend next month, after the finals and between fanfic writing, editing it, and then once that's over I'll send it off to a REAL agent. I don't have the cash to get it professionally edited, so I hope I'm a good editor...lol.

NEW word count for Prologue to ch. 22!!

48,850!! yaay!! And that's just adding a bit of detail!!!

22 done!! plus word count!!

Yay!! 22 is now done, finally!! There are a total of(not including the ch #'s and word prologue) 48,803. Yay! If I write the other chapter to be almost 3000 words, and continue like that, maybe I'll be able to make it work? Or maybe I can go back now and add details into what I just wrote...I'll do that!!

-hits self on head-

I did it again. I was GOING to work on it, but I found an excuse not to...This time, it was that I was hot and I went to the pool then slept over at my friends house...and I still ended up writing over 1000 words at her house alone!! Now I'm home, and it's not too hot, too cold, or too anything(except too foodless...-hungry), so I am going to finish the last 500 or so words of 22 and NOW I have to finish ch.s 23 and 24 tonight too...did I mention that it's almost 8, and I have plans for tomorrow?? lol...I'll be waay tired when I'm doing hw tomorrow too, but oh well...I hope I can finish the novel on time still!! If I don't make it to 60,000 though, it'll still be publishable, just as a novella...(adult novel less than 60,000 words). Maybe I'll be able to finish the novel by...next week, hopefully, since it's my goal. CRAP! I JUST CHECKED THE DATE!! I HAVE TO WRITE CH. 25 BY TOMORROW TOO!! Oh well, I'll be able to make my word goal for tomorrow easily!!

Another busy day...

My sister graduated today, I did homework, wasted time, and went on blogtv to watch Kaleb Nation, The Twilight Guy, Either way, it's 30 minutes to bed, and I still haven't done most of my homework...AKA, a population graph, worksheet, and finishing a whole book. dammit!! Me has to hurry, probably stay up an hour late, and I STILL won't have an extra day to write!!! Good thing--I don't have plans for the weekend, except memorial day, so I'll write 2 a day!!! yaaaay!!! bye!!

Aww...no boom! but 21 is done! (PLUS! word count now!)

holaaa! I finished the chapter, and it's a whole 500 more than the minimum word count per chapter. The total word count is 46,709, and it takes up 61 word doc pages. Yaaay!

AGH!

Ugh...my mom wouldn't let me go to my friends concert, because she didn't want to get up because Id0l was on. -rolls eyes- And my friend was here, then I got side-tracked by something else related to publishing...-groans-. I'm gonna stop giving excuses and try to fit about 500 words in before 10:30. I may as well stay up 30 minutes late...maybe I'll have a brain boom and end up staying up until 11!! Maybe I shouldn't do that...whateva! -works-

-sigh-

I've become side tracked, and hw took way too long. I plan on watching Idol momentarily, helping a friend with homework, writing whenever I can, and going to a band concert! I think I'll enjoy the concert, and I'll have stuff for before it and during rides, ect, to do,(try to catch up on annotations). I would be doing that now, but I wanted to write!! It'll take me forever, but I'm gonna make myself do less thorough annotations than I'm doing now...one, two, or three per page, probably...now me must go, cuz my friend is here!!

Wish I were home...

If I went home now(I'm at my grandma's) I would have just about 4 hours to write before going to a concert...but I have to annotate the rest of a book, so that actually means that I have probably only 2 or 3 hours. Anyway, I'll have enough time to finish 21, and at least START 22. If I could finish it, I'd be only a day or so away from getting to the amazingness that is 50,000 words!! I really hope I can get 60,000 done kinda soon-ish, like, within the next 5 days or so, and I hope to get the whole book done(hopefully at least 65,000 words total) by the end of this month, so that's 11 days!! yaaaaay!! before I finish my freshman year, I could have a book done! And, hopefully, I could probably get an agent or something by the end of August or September! Shoot...I have to have my mom majorly edit my book, and then a friend or two, plus me doing it like, 3 times...make that by the end of this year I'll hope to get an agent. lol. I'll start looking for an agent as soon as the editing is done...I'm gonna shut up and tell my grandma I want to walk home now...bye!!

Make that a LOT late...

It's an hour and a half since I was supposed to go to sleep. I finished ch. 2o, which was barely done when 10 hit, and I got half of 21 done. Damn, I started tearing up...-sad- I'm back to writing sad stuff for a while...I'm at 44,132 words, but that's not including chapter 21 so far. total, it's at 45,141, or something like that. Talk to ya tomorrow, when I hopefully finish 21 and get to 22!! OH! ANOTHER POINT!! I made my word and chapter goal, for ch. 20 and 40,000 words!! yaay!! And it's a day early! yaaay! I bet I'll finish it before Finals!!!

I stay up a little late yet again...

again, to finish a chapter, I'm staying up late. I swear, I haven't gotten a full night of sleep in forever...but you know what? I love writing this story, so I'm totally okay with it!! lol...anyway, I'm getting right up to the point I want to get to, that a certain follower (coughcough, you know who you are) knows about. Wait, now I finished the chapter...it cuts right in the middle!! I'm gonna start chapter 21 right now, to get this part out.

wow...I'd be smart if I told you what the book is about...

My book is about a goth girl who's been abused for 9 years, since her mom died when she was 7. It starts with her dad being caught, and her going to live with her grandma, who tried to make her a preppy, pink-loving, good girl. When she meets a goth friend, she's allowed to dress however she wants, but then, after meeting a guy who she can't help talking to, things start to change, again...

Poll up!

I know only 2 people follow this blog right now, but I just put up a poll for the title, with 4 choices. Don't worry, I'm working on ch. 20, aka, THEEE CHAPTER, now. Then I should probably do my homework though...-shrugs-

word count!

I forgot to tell you to the word count for Prologue to this chapter(aka, 19). it's 41,915, if you don't count the chapter numbers and the word 'Prologue,' like I"m not doing. With them all, it's 41,935. It's less than a hundred away from be a whole 4,000 more than the plan!!(it WOULD be at 38,000 right now if I didn't write at least a little more for all chapters) AAANNNND, chapter 20 is THE CHAPTER!! THEEEEE CHAPTER!!!! I can't tell you what happens in THEEEEEE CHAPTER, but it's a big turning point!! I can't wait!!!! Oooh, and a lot of people at my school want to read it...I wish I could give them the first chapter or something....but that'd be a LOT of paper, and me no likey wastey papery. Anywayz, since it's morning, my grandma's bugging me to go downstairs and get ready for school(I had like, 5 minutes...sheesh...she thinks I take a half hour for the simplest things...I'm not a prep!)

Staying up late, though it makes morning hell, is worth it.

Long title...and it basically says all that I was gonna say here...just by staying up an extra hour, which I do by laying down in bed not sleeping anyway, I finished 19!! I'm so happy! If I can make myself write a chapter or two a night, like I've been doing, I'll be done with this story in no time! (plus, finally, my stories about to get to a really good part, me thinks!! I'll probably edit half of it out...which would mean adding back in details...-sad-...I hope I can get it long enough...whateva!!

19's almost there!!

I can NOT believe that in just about an hour, I wrote 1,146 words!! No, in less than an hour!! I SHOULD be going to sleep, but I just had a brain boom(if you don't know what it is, it's my version of Jimmy Neutrons brain blast, except mine makes me type and write fast and have good ideas!! yay for brain booms!!!)

18(happened yesterday)

I forgot to post yesterday that I finished ch. 18!!! It's about 40,000 words now, only 200 words away, and I already got that bit in ch. 19 if you count that!! My sister got bored, so I gave her pro-18 to edit, and she's being such a critic! Agh! Whatever though, I mean, I'm gonna take this, look it over, and stuff, and make sure it's still right...she's just commenting on things anyway. I'd rather have her say something then leave it be!! Anyway, I hung out with her friend, now mine, all day at the Library, and I may be doing that most of the day tomorrow too, depending on lots of things, like how I feel...basically, I probably WILL make my goal, I just donno if I'll have to double-time on the 20th. I hope not!! Maybe if I finish 19 today, and 20 tomorrow, I can get everything ahead by a day! yaay! (since I have like, 3 minutes, probably not...lol...)

17!!

Yay!! I actually made myself get up and write a chapter after waaay too much time felting and doing other stuffs!!! I finished 17, which as already almost done, and then I started answering Q's on yahooanswers for not reason...I had an excuse to go on though!! I needed help with a scene!!!

16, rewriting, and new goals, sigh.

yaay! finally, after days of holding it off, I completed chapter 16. AND, I had a friend of mine read part of the first chapter, and she pointed out two small things in it, that ended up helping me write 2 full new paragraphs to add detail and other scattered sentences in the area!! All together, I'm over 35,000 now!! yaay!! On the other hand, I'm going to hang out with that friend, and without a laptop to write on, I'm pretty much making myself reset the goals...-sigh- So, here are the new goals:

40,000 words and ch. 2o by May 20th
50,000 words and ch. 25 by May 25th
60,000 words and as many chapters as needed by May 30th
If I can make myself write them fast enough to get the goal I'm working on now done before the 20th, I may reset them, or I'll just finish everything early :D. probably the second :D

Dang fun/cool things!!

Agh! I keep getting side tracked!! I still haven't finished 16, and tomorrow my goal was to finish everything!! -sigh-...At least today is Friday!! crap...I'm gonna be busy most of Saturday...AGH! dang cool/fun things!!!! :D I guess I'm gonna change my goal...but I'll tell you guys once I know if I can keep those new goals...

Sigh...

I'm VERY disappointed with myself. I haven't been writing in a while...over the last three days or so, I've only written around 700 words!! Today will be different though...I'm working on finishing 16. Unless I can finish 17 today as well, and then 18 and 19 tomorrow, and 20 the next day, I won't be able to make my goal...chapter wise. Word wise, I'll be fine if I do 2 longer chapters and 1 normal one...or just 4 normal ones...Whatever, me is going to write now!!

Tired....Oh-So-Tired

Me es soooo tired...but I'm gonna try to write the chapter tonight anyway....first, though, is a shower to wake me up!!!

Wow...He's Very Supportive...(not)

I told my ex today at the end of school while we were chatting that I was writing a book. When I told him I already know some literary agents I hope will help me, he was like, 'You got literary AGENTS?' and then later on he was like, 'good luck wiht that' in that unsupportive, joking, way. Pshaw...when I'm famous(or at least have cash from the book) I'll mention on something something like, 'I TOLD YOU MATT!!!' just cuz I can :D

(And in REAL book news, I have little hw, so after I finish it all, I'll be starting the next chapter. Hopefully I'll be able to write 2 chapters tonight.)

Ah, morning...-gag-

yaaay! I got 2 followers!! Normal bloggers would be like, 'agh! why is no one following me!' or something, but I didn't expect even 1, so this is good!!! And, it's moooorning...blah. I hate mornings. They're boring and crap. On the good side, everyone is gonna see my hair for the first time, discluding 2 of my best friends. Hm...it says discluding isn't a word, and it wants me to change it to something like, 'undiscerning' well, isn't that a double negative?? So it's really saying....'cerning' or whatever?? these people make no sense to me...Anyway, I've got no more time this morning, so I can finish getting ready...see ya later peeps!!

Complete Goal(words and chapters) complete!!

I stayed up 15 minutes late so I could finish writing chapter 15 and put up this. I'm at 33,016. Tomorrow, I'm going to try to write chapter 16, and start chapter 17 if I have time. Hopefully I do!!

Song and Title Ideas For The Book

Hey! I was just listening to a song, and realized that it's the perfect song for part of my book!! It's called 'Everything' by Lifehouse. Another song I realized that was perfect was 'By Your Side' by Tokio Hotel. Those are two of many, that I'll probably find later. I know that if I choose to make a list of related songs, 'Everything' will be on it.

About the Title part, I wanted to tell you guys that I already had an idea, but I may put up a pole, in case I think of others that are good. The current one is Watching Over Me.

Word Goal 1 Completed!

Hey! I just wrote chapter 14, and still need to write chapter 15, but I'm glad to announce...

I'm at 30,800 words!! Yaaay!! My next chapter I hope to make be long enough to bring it to about 33,000 words, so I may end up being totally off with chapter and word goals, and have 60,000 done by chapter 25, or something like that!! Next time you'll hear from me will probably be tonight, again, because I still have 3 hours to write!

See ya later,
Katie Koulos

Literary Agent Hype!

Even though I haven't even written half the book, I'm still excited about it, and I'm searching for literary agents that I think may be interested in it. I've found a whole agency that I think one or two agents may like it, and I found another separate area that would hopefully like it and accept it. Kaleb Nation gave a site to people on BlogTV that want literary agents. When I'm done with the book(hopefully by the end of the month or next month) I'll probably send it off to them and others. (Maybe someone in Little Brown, Harper Collins, or another one of my favorite authors' publishers!) This is a busy school week, that I'm starting tomorrow, but I hope I'll have time to keep my set goals, and figure out how long my book will be!!

See ya guys later, I'll try to blog about if I made my goal tomorrow.

My Book Goals!

Hey guys!! It's Katie,(duh)

I'm going to tell you guys my goals here, so you know them, and because I'm bored :D.

By chapter 15, I want to have 30,000 or more words, and I hope to get that done by today or tomorrow.

On chapter 20, I want 40,000 or more words, and I hope to get that done by May 16th.

On chapter 25, I want 50,000 or more words, and I hope to get that done by May 21st.

In the rest of the chapters, I hope to make it to 60,000, preferably 85,000, words, and I hope to finish my book all together by the end of June, at the least, and preferably, the end of May.

Any time I reach a goal, I will blog about it, and tell you word count, and possibly what's happening that isn't related to the book, like what ideas I have, or if I got a lot of fanfiction writing done. If I miss a goal, I'll blog about it, what kept me, and adjust my goals to make the others more reachable.

Welcome!!

Hey!

I'm Katie, and I aspire to be an author. It's the one thing I'm dying to be, more than anything. This blog is probably going to be ignored be all, but just in case it's not, I'm going to explain this all.

I used to hate reading, let alone writing, all together, until I read a book in early 7th grade, when I was twelve years old. This book alone took me ages, and after I finished it, I started reading other books, by random authors, no real series or genre. Later that year, I fell in love with a series, and then another, and, as time passed by, I found a love for writing, too. My first story was written grammatically boring, and much too short. In August of 2007, I read the Twilight books, and fell in love. These books brought me much further into the writing world. I write fanfictions on fanfiction.net, and have been doing so for over a year. These helped me, because I was able to see how other people felt about my ideas, and was able to look back at them all, and see, by amount of reviews and by my own taste, how my writing style has changed, and what I wanted to work on to make me a better author.

I started to have ideas about real books that I could actually write when I was 13, and have no idea when I had the first idea, but I never tried to write one until I turned 14. When I chose my idea, I had low hopes for myself. In my mind, I had no hope of writing a detailed, well written, book, I didn't think I could keep myself interested in my own novel, and thought I'd give up on it before I reached 20,000 words. At this point, my hopefully-to-be-novel is 28,116 words long, and 13 chapters long. Each chapter I wrote got a minimum amount of words, that I stuck to and went over, of 2,000 words each.

This blog is where I'm going to post how my books going, how my search for a literary agent is going, once I start it, and then, if I get a literary agent, my publishing process. My goal for this blog is, for the moment, to write an entry or two a week, but if nothing big happens, I won't usually blog. This blog, because of it's length, is done.