Not a lot to report...

So, I love that on days that I consider to be "slow" writing days, I only pump out 1000 words. heh!

Last night I did a lot of planning on the whole enslavement section of the book. I'm thinking its going to last a little longer than first planned. After all Mitch does spend 3 weeks there before escaping. So I did a whole lot of pre-vis on the camp etc so that ate up most of my two hours...

Also I had the idea that Ellie has been guiding Mitch this whole time... I'm not sure if I want to go that route or not... We'll see.

What a tangled web..

I suppose I'm not going to do the story about that kid after all. Turns out I'm going to do the Crawford series book 1.

Gonna try and get 50K of it done in one month, on weekends only!

Crazy huh?

However, I did find out last night, that I average 42-44 words per minute. If I can keep that up ,I should be able to write two hours a day, on saturday and sunday, and meet my goal.

Inneresting!

Btw, current wordcount on the Telamon is 25,000!

NaNoWrMo

So I'm thinking of doing this just on the weekends.

I definitely think I wanna do it about the boy who keeps being reborn. It should be fun.

I dig the name Rion. As in Orion.

I would love to have the names of the major players be derivations of greek mythology. Also, the story itself should reflect the concept of Karma. Probably need to do some research into the cycle of Karma, so that will form the basis of the story.

I also think I would like his "Caretaker" to be the ultimate villain. He tries to drive Rion to learn how to access the memories of his past. In reality, he only does this because Rion is his own son and he wants his son back.

He warns him of those who hunt him and crave his immortality and that he must hide from them...

Another note to myself

Think about a story wherein they use children as assasins due to shorter prison lengths and unformed morals.

(Like Susan Colt who seems to have very little concept of what she does)

Finally getting some steam.

I'm up to around 19,000 words now. I actually managed to write several days in a row! Go figure.

Heading off to halloween horror nights tomorrow so I may not write much tonight. It'd be great to fit in a thousand words or so.

Mitch has FINALLY left the children behind. So sad. Truly heartbreaking. (Or at least it will be when I edit it. I kinda just flew through it to get it done)

Strangely, I wrote the scene where Mitch is attacked by the drug addicts and... hey... you know wait a sec. I was thinking that it didn't move the plot forward. Originally this was the scene that made Mitch decide to live in the ground. But I was thinking, is that really important? Not really.

So what if, after the week with the kids, mitch is exhilarated by the killing of the 5 men. That's character tension, instead of a throwaway factoid.

I love this blog!

Well that last post was depressing...

So yeah, Usha has cancer. That blows. I think for now I'm hopefully in a slow patch with it. We started her on a treatment that ... No one really knows what its going to do.

Regardless, this blog is about writing, not soul crushing dog death!

I wrote last night! After being out of commission for yet another week thanks to a horrible flu, I wrote!

I finally got sick of Mitch hanging out with the kids, so I decided to be a total cock to them. Mitch convinces them that he's there to stay and they're accepting him as a surrogate father and POW, he runs into some Robes. Heh. I'm such a dick!

Tonight'll be the last chapter with the kids and Mitch is off to ... What happens next? I think he gets abducted by the slavers... We'll see!

Wordcount: 17500

never a pausing point

I got the wordcount to around 15,000 and things are really singing... Then I get the flu. Then I realize Usha's cancer is not going to get better and they've given me 6-9 months if I shell out $5,000....

Needless to say, not writing much at the moment. Just want the fever to go away and have things get back to normal.

What a rough go.

So its been a pretty rough go of things lately with writing. I went through and tried to actually lay out what happens and do a small chapter summary so I don't go all half cocked and meandering again. Then I found out Usha's cancer came back and it just ruined a bunch more time...

Anyways...

I went through four full revisions of a chapter summary before finally settling on what I wanted.

So then, what do I do but sit down last night, and the FIRST thing I write has NOTHING to do with the fucking summary! lol I mean seriously. But, the chapter ended up being bad ass, and possibly even introducing a new antagonist who may pop up later.

I went on to write a few more chapters, leading me to write almost 4000 words last night!

So now the word count is 10,000 and I feel like I'm finally back on track.

Mitch FINALLY met up with Colt!!!