Yesterday, I got very little done. A coupla spot edits, a few good lines on the thing with the rosemary (one of these days I’ll figure out the title) and a section that I rewrote about four times. No, too angsty. No, too short. No, too likely to be conflated with autoerotic asphyxiation, a concern […]
Monthly Archives: November 2006
And we have 50K! EAT THAT, NANO! *does the dance of a whole lotta words* I got them to Anuket City. I have to go back and kick a few places into shape, but I got them there in 50K. Now, I just need to figure out what happens once they get there… And yes, […]
46K, and countin’. I’m not writing entirely consecutively, but the gaps are fairly narrow ones, usually spanning a few lines of dialog or a description, and I keep going back and filling in as I figure out what should go there. I suspect the book has two distinct halves–before and after they get to Anuket […]
Is that 40K going by? I think it is! My favorite moment of the last few thousand words occurs as Brenner and Caliban are being held captive by a demon-deer: “Well, so, you’re a demonslayer, then,” said Brenner eagerly. “What do we do now?” Caliban sighed heavily. “We die.” “What? You’re the bloody Knight-Champion!” “I’m […]
Ben has apparently decided that I need an escort to the bathroom. Every single time. Since I am drinking immense quantities of tea in my quest to find out exactly what does happen next to our intrepid heroes, this means that he’s following me back and forth about once every twenty minutes or so. Once […]
37K! Have another chunk. There’s a break in the narrative here, because the intervening chunk is rougher than usual and I suspect it needs a lot more kicking. When we rejoin our heroes, they’re starting down the road to Anuket City. Relations, never great to begin with, have broken down completely. Caliban is surlier than […]
31K. I keep crankin’ this out, and I may actually get back on track for Nanowrimo. I must be inspired. I had to actually get out music instead of NPR. Since all I’ve got is Tool, Firewater, and Tom Waits, this may have a warping effect on the next chapter, which is already full of […]
Okay, okay–this is actually good for me, because I have to kick at it to the point where I am not completely humiliated by posting it. Have a chunk. It picks up directly where the other one left off. It’s rather long. It’s REALLY rough, but I’ve already apologized for that a couple of times, […]
Ahem. I’m sure you’re desperately sick of hearing about my writing by now, but nevertheless. I have finally written a story where the heroine, in a moment of desperate peril, on a runaway horse, can legitimately find herself thinking “It’s a math problem. If a horse traveling at twenty-six miles an hour going west is […]
I’ve passed the word count on the bluebird story in…three days. Sheesh. Shows what inspiration’ll do, I guess.