Please contribute your ideas regarding how magic might work in a fantasy world…

Day off. Writing was good. Everyone should try it. Now I will distract myself with good eats, and a bit of Good Eats, while I let the storyboard shuffle itself some more in my head.

I didn’t get my minimum done, but I am taking a day off from work tomorrow, so that will help. I am about a day ahead anyway. Chapter 10 is ready for viewing. Working table of contents is here. Other than this I have another chapter like 2/3 done but it is out of order so I had better not expose it yet. To those of you who have read some of the story and commented, thanks!

On today’s episode of “action novel writing”… A Poll!

Someone (ohhjuliet) had a cute moose pic so I had to steal it. And add my own caption of course. And here are a couple other pics just for fun.

Sorry about spamming everyone’s friends pages earlier… I moved the entries to the other journal where they are supposed to be. I skipped some chapters so I could get to some exciting plot bits. Now I have a choice of going forward more or coming back to fill in the blanks, which is handy.

Writing is coming along OK. Unfortunately, in order to get where I wanted to be, I used up all my ideas for chapters to come, so now I will need to come up with more plot devices, which means more working over my notes and cause/effect list in the hope that something else will fall out. For my friends also involved in nanowrimo, you proably want to make use of your time to write your own novels, though if you are stuck (and using a fantasy setting) browse my stuff if you think it will help. ...

2100 words. A decent length for a chapter. I skipped forward a bit in the story so it’s best if I don’t expose it yet. Added 300 words of notes too. Total: 9291 “real” count, 11714 including notes.

Just posted ch.5. In which Ayden’s new lady friend proves to have a life of her own. Chapter 05: Training day (1858 words) Ayden’s new lady friend is named Lise but goes by Kat (yes Emeraldas, I thought of you when naming her :) I am slowly making up for 3 slow days with 2 stronger days, but still behind the steady-rate goal of 10K today. So I am 18.6% novelist and tomorrow I shall be 22% novelist. Today: 1858 story, 279 notes, 2137 total 5 day total: 7191 story, 2117 notes, 9308 total ...

Here is a funny Flash cartoon about the end of the world and how we all get blown up by nukes, except for california or something. Takes a long time to load so watch it from work where the connection is fast. http://members.cox.net/impunity/endofworld.swf