Comments on: A nice little cliffhanger

By: BeccaBooG

BeccaBooG — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:51:59 +0000

Wow. That was a hell of a chapter. Wonderful! I loved the interaction between Kettan and Will. It was so intense and well described.

By: Gabby

Gabby — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:46:53 +0000

About 500 more words beefing up previous scene. I think it’s good now for 1st draft… although not sure that anything ANYONE did was believable… LOL I’ll have to sleep on it. Maybe I’ll wake up with the solution (that would be kind of convenient).

By: Danielle

Danielle — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:48:58 +0000

I’ve pretty much abandoned word counts, since I do all my first drafts with old-fashioned pen and paper and I really, REALLY don’t want to tally it up by had (math is not my strong suit)… however, I’ve started putting dates on what I write, and I’ve gotten a good 2 pages in today, front and back. Since that’s what I’ve written in between class notes, “Wuthering Heights,” and a satire paper… I’m pleased.

Moreover, what I crammed into those two pages was the introduction of a secondary narrator, one who’s hunting down my primary narrator and her cohorts Sherlock Holmes-style. It is proving quite interesting. And I’m not sure exactly where it’s going– yet.

I love it when the muse cooperates (knock on wood.)

By: Elmi

Elmi — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:31:21 +0000

Wrote 337 words tonight, although I think I might write some more after dinner. It was extremely frustrating, because I do not like the scene at all, but I’m forcing myself to just get words on the page – easier to change what is there than what isn’t, right?
It’s the first really big conflict that our hero needs to overcome, but the emotional foundation and reasons for it feel all wrong (it’s a fight between my MC and the one person she has to impress but… doesn’t.) I’m thinking that maybe I don’t understand him well enough. Or maybe I’m forcing the story/conflict in a direction that is unnatural simply because I need that big bang right about now… *Sigh* I wish I have already taken HtTS, it feels like I’m walking in the dark.

By: Gabby

Gabby — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:02:50 +0000

Congratulations to both of you! That must take a weight off your shoulders.

By: Gabby

Gabby — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:01:11 +0000

Larrk, I’m doing that too the past couple of days. Minor bad guy showed up in my scene but I realized I didn’t know what he was doing and why. Figured I’d better figure it out before I go any further.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:08:36 +0000

300 o nWIP. Trying to convince the 4yo to leave his house in the middle of the night, but it’s cold, he’s thirsty, and he’s afraid of the dark.

It’s been slow going since I still can’t nail down the ending in my head. I’ve also been sick for over a week now which has stalled a lot of things. But good news is my husband starts training for a job in March!

By: Larkk

Larkk — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:48:26 +0000

505 words.
Who is my antagonist? What does he want? How did he get to be where he is now? What does he look like? And what is his name?
Got started on that, after writing scene cards all weekend for the revision. Those went well

I liked Bill/Will Grey from his very first scene and I’m glad he’s going to be playing a bigger role!

By: Ieva

Ieva — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:18:22 +0000

My muse is coming up — slowly, but gently — with new stuff to do. Yesterday, it was nothing (death in husband’s family got things sorta stalled), but today, my Muse and I are filling the blanks with 300+ words. It’s like the the setting is emerging from pure white (very appropriate for the deep deep snow we’re having here).

Event-wise, my protagonist, Bee, is slowly remembering the one whom she met in the forests, and fighting not to remember. After all, she’s married and supposedly happier, and supposedly wiser now.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:07:52 +0000

KavI: 678
D&DII: 801
RFW: 1264
And 2k of OFL revision, and some structural work on KavI revision, starting to ask questions about the first dozen scenes or so, ready for working out what needs to happen on revision. KavI should be finished by the end of next week…