Category: Fiction

  • DTD — 498 words, and the walls come a-tumbling down

    The story is shifting under my feet, but what I got tonight was solid. I have to remember to make sure my main characters are concerned about their man down…but for right now, Ki has finally decided to come clean about who he is. And even in coming clean, he isn’t going to give Aleksa…

  • DTD — 500 even, and something that floored me

    My male lead just destroyed something amazing in order to keep the Balegarn from using it against him. I didn’t expect this to happen at all, and the fact that something so immense happened this early in the story shocked me. And my female lead is unnerved by assumptions the hero is making about their…

  • DTD — 469 words, and the not-quite-dead-yet hired gun

    Oh, man. Threw all sorts of mad twists into the story tonight—hadn’t planned for any of them (just planned for the concept of twists here) and they showed up in lines like chorus girls, kicking their feet in synch and grinning like loons. The story edges into the evil of the Balegarn, hinted at and…

  • DTD — 298 words, and continuing Blood On The Wall

    Took a long time to find my angle tonight—and the guy I was going to kill off didn’t die after all. What happened to him is a lot worse, though no one knows it just yet. And I’ve given myself an excellent jumping-off point for tomorrow’s work. I quit before I hit 300 tonight—first, I…

  • DTD—287 Words, and blood on the wall

    I made it to the explosion. I didn’t get as far as the death. But my characters are coming together, and the scene is developing a nice shape. So I’ll probably end up killing off my unfortunate guy tomorrow…or maybe the next day, because I don’t see him being someone who’s going to go down…

  • DTD—461, and dialogue that’s too heavy

    The conversation between my two MCs at the moment feels pedantic. I cut it a bit short—my characters are headed someplace, and things are about to get hideously ugly…but at the moment, they’re talking about things that are thematic, and important, but as I wrote them felt awfully heavy-handed. S’okay. That’s the sort of thing…

  • DTD— 520 Words. First admission of truth.

    Aleksa gets an admission from Ki that something she’d already basically figured out is true. I’m basically happy with what I got tonight. But mostly, I’m happy I got anything. The past few days, this little bit of writing has been the sum total of my accomplishments. I haven’t tracked down the source of my…

  • DTD—467 words, and Aleksa’s hypothesis

    When Ki proves evasive, Aleksa proposes her on theory explaining Camel Coat, the extra head, and certain other oddities she has observed. I’m back to struggling with Aleksa’s background. I have her a professor now, but I keep leaning toward moving her back to field archeology, where she started when I came up with the…

  • DTD — 556 words, and leading up to a first truth

    Aleksa faces her adversary/ rescuer across dinner, hoping for an explanation for the chaos that has descended on her in the past three days. I used the scene to plant some tiny teasers from her past, and a couple of little clues of things that will show up in the future. Writing went very well,…

  • DTD — 387 words, and the captive considers her plight

    A light night. I haven’t been getting enough sleep, and today I’m really feeling it. So I ran with Aleksa for a bit, as—alone and for the moment safe—she’s forced to consider what’s coming after her and the possibility that her life will never be normal again. I’ll do more in that vein tomorrow. She…