Time for another Weekend Report. Friday, stayed late at work, not because of any work I was doing, but because I was reading Spam-L and other anti-spam foo and lost track of time. Friday was a busy day but the rest of the week wasn’t. I think I got Baja Fresh and Pho take out because they were right near each other. On arriving home, watched TV and didn’t do much that was productive. ...
Here are 6 random things about me, to feed the meme that is going around… 1. I wrote 50K words for my novel in November. I probably will finish at some point; I estimate it is 2/3 done or so. Or, I might turn the story and setting into a campaign for D&D, who knows. 2. I have been married 11 years. I consider myself poly, but M is not, so I will remain mono for the forseeable future. ...
I win! Total: 50947 words That includes Notes: 5363 words but I don’t care, they are good notes. It doesn’t include two pages of family tree, one continent map, one half-of-city map, and makes no account for blood, sweat, and tears (well, perhaps it does with the sweat part).
47204 words.. I am so close. Unfortunately we have a second-thanksgiving type visit tomorrow and I will probably get next to jack done, so the remaining ~3000 will be cranked out late tomorrow night and Sunday.
Just finished a difficult bit of writing. Things should start going a bit faster after this. Here is a snip of it if you want to check it out. Lise said, “Perhaps you’re right, Ayden.” She turned on her side, propping up her head with her hand, bringing her nose-to-nose with him. “You made me feel better anyway. Thank you.” Then she kissed him on the cheek, and got up. “Good night, Ayden.” ...
After two meager (one might say “paltry”) nights of 522 and 748 words, tonight was better. It was all NOTES but there are 1100 more words of notes, all of them plot ideas. I will probably not include the “kidnap” plot in the finished product, because it was not really going anywhere (due to me not figuring out who the BAD GUY actually is or what he wants) and also because it involves the duke’s army riding out to rescue the kidnapped nobles and my main character is just along for the ride and not doign anything. ...
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!