Have been working since 7AM — and today flew. Book 4 took a dangerous turn this morning, as something I’d sort of tripped over in an earlier book took on a life of its own, and unfolded in front of me in a way I had never even imagined. There is a schism amongst my… Continue reading Good progress, good conflict… and a whiff of destruction on the wind
Category: Fantasy
Three steps forward, two steps back: Ohio 4, Chapter 7… and done, I think, with stuff brought forward from Ohio 3
I am, much to my delight, just about out of the stuff I saved from Ohio 3 to use in Ohio 4. It’s good stuff, and reworking it so that it fits the current worldbuilding is interesting, and fun… …But constantly ripping out old words as I insert the better new ones is not my… Continue reading Three steps forward, two steps back: Ohio 4, Chapter 7… and done, I think, with stuff brought forward from Ohio 3
Tiptoeing through the minefield… and being mocked by my Muse
I’d hoped to get 1200 words net today, but after a workday that started at six AM and included very little sleep the night before, I’m going to take what I got and go do things that don’t require so much brain. What I got, though… Holy Crap! I found out something absolutely enormous about… Continue reading Tiptoeing through the minefield… and being mocked by my Muse
The truth about elves… 2,266 words today, 27,056 words total, and a LOT of fun
Tolkien aside, I have always preferred small, fast elvish trouble-makers to tall, willowy, blonde high elves. And today I had a LOT of fun writing the little troublemakers, and got sheer joy reveling in knowing who they’re about to start making trouble for. Some of what landed in the book today was a cut-and-paste save… Continue reading The truth about elves… 2,266 words today, 27,056 words total, and a LOT of fun
Ohio-Novel Monday: Still working through the rewrite of the stuff I saved last Friday
I did a lot of words. Pulled stuff out, put stuff in, and at the end of it, I don’t have 1250 words to show for my time, but when you’re fixing and tinkering and replacing chunks of text, that’s the way it goes. I Iike this section. I love the characters, I love the… Continue reading Ohio-Novel Monday: Still working through the rewrite of the stuff I saved last Friday
Still fiddling with yesterday’s infusion of words rescued from Book Three
I’ve added, I’ve cut, I’ve rethought… and I made significant progress on Chapter 6. Just not much of a net gain. So now I’m at 171 words for the day, and 24,242 for the novel. And having moved through a lot of pages to get that very small gain, I’m now going to call it… Continue reading Still fiddling with yesterday’s infusion of words rescued from Book Three
Got good words, got good pages, but running late… so…
I’m just going to say that I love what I got, and but I’m running late, still have things to cover. 2243 words, and 21,109 total.
That RIGHT left turn in Albuquerque
First, the word count. On Ohio 4 today, I got 1264 new words (out of my planned 1250…), and on Book 4, I now have 18,426 total. This was, overall, an excellent writing day, in which stuff happened that I was not anticipating that was way better than the stuff I’d planned. My characters were… Continue reading That RIGHT left turn in Albuquerque
