Category: Worlds and Worldbuilding
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Ohio 5: Grandma’s Secret and some pasts remembered – 685 words, 9191 total
Turns out my MC’s late and much-lamented grandmother had a secret she was keeping from those nearest and dearest to her. This secret might explain a scene in the very first book. The grandmother’s personality, by the way, is spun off of my maternal great-grandmother, who lived to be almost 103, and who was a…
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Plugging along on Ohio 5: Some good stuff, some that’s probably expository… 306 words, 8508 total
Part of today’s work is going to end up being edited heavily during the one-pass revision. Because it was world-building. Thinking with my fingers, walking my way through why what’s going on matters and how those actions work, and what their consequences have been. It was right in the chapter, and parts of it will…
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Today was FUN, wordwise.
I discovered some new things about the town yesterday, and today I got to spend some time building those spiffy bits out. The Lesser God of Barbecue made an appearance. My MC’s primary ally discovered she knew something he didn’t about the town, at the same time that’s she’s discovered a weird little thing she…
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Ohio 4 Slow start, but some nice conflict — 852 words
This morning didn’t go as I’d planned (scheduling conflicts and a calendar screw-up that broke a couple of planned things), and I was way late getting started on the words. But the local high-school football stadium found its way into the story, and tomorrow, I’ll be writing some scary, magic-y things happening there. Things that…
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“No plan survives first contact with the enemy…”
Or second contact… Or third… The quote may come from Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, or Carl von Clausewitz, or Dwight D. Eisenhower… or just some dude who knew shit. But it’s true — and it isn’t just true about war. It’s true about any sort of creation that requires spontaneous adaptation to unknowable but…
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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…
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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…