To write.

Date night was a success... Now lets see what we can do with a saturday afternoon!

Wednesday was just rough

But Thursday was just fine!

I couldn't write any Wednesday, technical difficulties, you understand. However, Thursday night I put down 3200(ish) words. Total is up to over 58K now, book is clanking along. Really wanna finish this bitch next week. Should be doable, I only need FIVE HOURS of writing time...

A very cool character emerged in only one chapter, named Richard Greene, after Richard Gren, the leader of the lost colony of Roanoake.

Anywho. I'll update this after the weekend. I don't see me getting much done on Friday(today). Tonight is date night!

Meh. I wrote, but not a lot.

Yesterday was a shit day start to finish. I still managed to write about 1400 words yesterday which ain't too bad really.

I did work through in my mind a little more about Ellie setting up the meeting between the assassin's guild and Alex and Simon, so there's that.

Hopefully I'll be back on track soon.

Note to self

I like the idea of Ellie pulling the strings to eventually meet mitch and bring him togethor with the assassin's guild.

Perhaps he meets Ellie before Simon and Alex.

She's realized that the robes are not all evil and want to take him out from the inside out and when Mitch pulled his stunt at the church, the stories and legends about him spread like wildfire through the ranks of the robes.

She needs a small force to go in and take him out. Simon, Alex, Mitch and others go in and take Rhodes out himself. Mitch will reveal himself, and Ellie has snuck them in as regular robes.

I'm on fire.

Holy hot damn on a spigot. Last night was beastly.

I got to write for about two hours and man oh man it did not go the way I thought it was going to go. I did around 5000 words AGAIN. I'm just flying along now.

Mitch got shot the HELL up so bad but its a fantastic way for his legend to be created.

I'm up to 56,000 words now. What huge progress in the last week huh?

Monday funday.

So I forgot to update this sunday, but I still managed to put down 1500 words on Saturday. That was a 5 day streak! I took a break yesterday, since all hell was breaking loose with the dogs and we had a bithday party to go to.

I'm not gonna beat myself up over it.

So tonight, gonna do some more.

I've had another idea, everytime I get at all stuck in my book, I'm going to shake things up. I realized if I'm not having fun writing it, no one's going to have fun reading it.

Having fun and writing cool scenes needs to be what I do.

Last night had a lot of business to attend to

So despite going out for a bit of vino, and coming home and making fajitas etc etc, I managed to write over 2000 words. I hope I can accomplish the same tonight, going out to a friends house, but I gotta keep going with this writing every day thing!

Over 10,000 words in three days so far...

I dont want to jinx it...

Last night was impressive for several reasons. Not the least of which was that I was able to write for two days in a row. In addition, I wrote for almost two hours. Above all, I wrote nearly 5,000 words last night!

All in all I'm really pleased with my more descriptive, better paced writing that I've been doing the last two days. It feels like when the pace is more glacial it really amps up in the action sequences.

I'm really quite pleased, now I need to knock on some wood and hope I write again tonight.

I refuse to give up...

Come hell or high water, I'm going to finish this god, damned, book.

I'm learning more and more that I have to be unafraid with my writing. As I've written the last 80 thousand words or so I've grown so much as a writer and learned so much. I've learned that at the exact moment that I dont know what to write because I'm trying to adhere to an outline, its time to jettison the outline.

If I need to take a day to just THINK about the book, I need to take that day. If I realize, half way through the book, that I don't like the way I've been writing it, do not go back and fix it. Fix it now, going forward, and then change it when you're done.

Monday, I sat down and realized that my outline for book 2 was a wash. With the events (that surprised me) from the previous few thousand words, it invalidated what I'm doing now. I also have learned that the only way for me to write is with an extremely loose outline. By getting specific with my outline, I'm not only shoehorning myself into a plot which seems to change almost daily, but I'm also focusing too much on the action.

One of the other things I realized is that my book is made up of nothing but action and I never take time to smell the roses, I merely trample them as I sprint past.

The long and short of it is last night I wrote 3500 words. A damn fine number if you ask me. Tonight lets see what we can do..

This is getting embarassing...

I didn't write for like... a long time... What a failure.

I finally wrote again last night and arranged the desk with ONLY telamon related stuff. I put away the theodore and jason stories and clenaed it up and made it conducive to writing just this story.

I wrote another 1200 words last night which is at least a start. Only got to write for 26 actual minutes, so I desparately need to fix that. Anyways, I'm at around 39,000 words. I'll get this ramped up again soon enough. Sigh.