Day 3

Today: 1054 honest prose, 241 in notes Total: 3453 story, 1911 notes, 5364 total I am technically at my minimum pace of 10%, but including my notes is a bit like cheating. They will grow into real story bits too, hopefully much more than the notes themselves, but I haven’t typed *those* words yet. :) For friends who are interested (or just incredibly bored), chapter 1 is ready to be exposed. Chapter 00 Kingdom of Endwin, a brief history (480 words) Chapter 01 Hot tea, cold reunion (1129 words) If you do read it, please leave a comment just saying you read it. Or, ask me questions about the characters and setting if you like :) ...

November 4, 2003 · 1 min · gconnor

Word count day 2

Notes and nonsense: 419 Geography: 92 Cause and effect continued: 327 Big old map: 0 Presentable prose: 1928 Kingdom of Endwin, a brief history: 480 Hot tea, cold reunion, pt 2: 658 On the run: 790 Total for today 1928 (2347 incl notes) Total so far 2399 (4069 incl notes)

November 3, 2003 · 1 min · gconnor

Beta test

Want to be a test audience? If so… Please read the following conversation. This is not the actual story… I have removed the thoughts and facial expressions. I want to find out if someone overhearing just the voices would think. K: “Hello Denny,” D: “Kimne, hello, you look well,” K: “You too. Please sit.” D: *pause* *chair moves* “Thank you.” *pause* “You know, I was quite surprised to see you yesterday.” K: “I guess so, Denny,” D: “Folks around here don’t call me Denny; it’s usually Den or Densaye,” K: “Is it. I guess I never learned your real name, when we, ah, met in Camos.” D: “Ah, I’m sorry about that…” *pause* *dishes rattle* “Keep the change,” Girl: “Thank you!” K: “How did I know you were going to say that?” D: “What?” K: “Nothing, just a habit I picked up from you. I thought you were being extravagant, like as if to impress me, always dealing in silver and refusing to take copper. Looking back now I can see the real reason.” D: “Ah, yes.” *pause* “So you mentioned that, ah, you have a son now?” K: “Yes. Fine young boy he is. Ayden is his name. Quite like his father, in a lot of ways,” D: “Good to hear. Have you told him…” *pause* “Have you told him, ah, what happened to his father?” K: *pause* “Just that he died, quite painfully at that. May Sulam grant him rest.” D: “Ouch. Well, that’s for the best, I suppose. I am sure you are a wonderful mother to him.” K: “Yes, it has been hard, but we make do. I probably would not have come this far without Orell and Kanita. They have been wonderful.” D: “That’s good to hear. I am happy that you are well. I’ve thought of you often, but I never imagined that you had a son and raised him on your own.” *pause* “My heart grows heavy at the thought of the hardship you have endured. I would certainly not wish that on anyone.” K: *pause* “I know. I know, and thank you for saying so.” *teapot rattles* “So, enough about me, what have you been up to? You have sons, of your own now!” D: “Yes. Ardasho is the oldest, then Daytha, then Ormonn. Ardasho is probably a year and a half to two years younger than your Ayden.” K: “That’s… wonderful!” D: “Well, Morela and I are quite proud of them. Ardasho and Ormonn are both training hard; they want to travel to Aldavor and be officers in the King’s Guard.” K: “Ah, just like their father, yeah?” D: “Better than me, actually! They’ve been studying some new methods from Kin’tas too. Scary stuff.” K: “That’s great. I’m sure they will do quite well.” *chairs move* “Well I had better get back. It was good to see you again.” D: “Thank you, and you too. Please take care of yourself, and take care of Ayden.” K: “Of course, and you take care as well,” “Safe travels to you!” ...

November 2, 2003 · 3 min · gconnor

Novel started, sort of

Finally, some text I can show people. Kingdom of Endwin, a brief history 486 words. Also, lost some time this morning drawing maps and 93 words of non-prose geography notes.

November 2, 2003 · 1 min · gconnor

Writing this month

I have generated about 1000 words of outline and other material (568 family tree+683 cause and effect). None of it goes in the finished product but I feel like it’s a good start. I also have a page and a half of scrawl that traces my hero (45) to his great-great-great grandfather. It is a huge file and loading time is slow due to my DSL. It won’t make sense without the notes (which I’m not going to show you, neener neener). Gen 1-4 (500K jpg) 25 sec Gen 4-6 (1.7M jpg) 85 sec ...

November 1, 2003 · 1 min · gconnor

Choose your own adventure!

Yes, you too can be vicariously part of my nanowrimo experience without writing a word. Just answer the poll below. May the best plot win! (If you are not a logged-in LiveJournal user, the poll won’t work, but you may leave a comment with your answers)

November 1, 2003 · 1 min · gconnor

lame again

I am obviously way behind my goal of 2000 words a day. I blame my job for this. This site launch was not supposed to totally eat like six whole days of my life, and two more sizeable chunks of evening time. I consider my job quite rewarding, even though it is not always fun, and l am usually satisfied, and proud of myself and my team. However, this week I feel like I have been sorely used. I am a hero at work, but there is a cost. ...

November 15, 2002 · 2 min · gconnor

10k

10,000 words as of this morning. Added a bit to the end of one and the beginning of the next. Writing: Home (1805 words) Writing: The next day (2323 words)

November 14, 2002 · 1 min · gconnor

Story stalled

Story writing has stalled for a bit, due to work. (We met a huge deadline, it was brutal due to last-minute issues, and the wildfire seems to be 80% contained :) I feel a bit guilty for leaving Veldan hanging. The month is almost half over and I am only like 18% done. Oh well, I will try to make up for some lost time. Need to come up with some adversity for Veldan to face, or some adventure other than training. Need to figure out how he feels about things and what motivates him - such as the character worksheet items.

November 14, 2002 · 1 min · gconnor

Recap so far

Dusk (2387 words) this one is pretty much done Extra material: exercises for mages in training (125 words) background material Elori (259 words) background material Elori background data (188 words) background material Visualization exercise (1059 words) This is a flash-forward Home (742 words) This should come after Dusk Timeline, updated (408 words) more background material Total: 5168 words And yes, I have a script to figure this out for me, now, not just the total but the breakdown of each chapter or article. Isn’t that great?? Isn’t caffeine WONDERFUL!?!? ...

November 4, 2002 · 1 min · gconnor