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.

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.

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