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.

Wow its been a while again.

Last night I finally wrote again. Times have been really tough lately and I've not been doing myself any favors...

That said, I hit the 30K word count in the Telamon last night. Almost back up to the 40K I had in the previous version. Sigh. If nothing else, it proves i can write an entire book in four months.

Mitch is still in the slaver camp, on, I believe, day 2. Nash is still crazy, and Pablo (The leader of the camp) is a right bastard!

Some first section retooling.

So now that Mitch is in the slaver camp, I have been thinking a bit about where to go. The new character, Nash, is actually a robe pretending to be crazy ( and a slave ).

I think he'll be in on the slave escape and then reveal himself. Last night's writing went really well, did 1700+ words of chapter 20, plus several pages of planning for the escape and where Mitch goes from here.

I think I have a really great roadmap for how Mitch ends up in Tennessee again.

Up to about 28000 words now! 37% of the way through the book! (Of course, I'm thinking its going to end up around 120K words at the going rate...

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.