Went back to Kettan tonight in the next scene, “Where The Bodies Ain’t Buried,” and to a neat mystery for her and Will to struggle with…one that the reader is going to be in on, but that has some cool implications for things going wrong in a big way soon.
I got a little carried away—it was such fun to write fiction again after a week without. Wrote 1092 words, and I’m pretty happy with what I got.
Hoping to be regular with smaller word counts the rest of this week, but things are such an incredible zoo right now I can’t be sure I’ll manage that.
I’m getting LOTS of writing done. 3-4,000 words a day. It’s just not fiction.
If you’re doing WABWM, how are your words coming?
What came out tonight in the interlude was Nate and Blade, trouping across the Bleak. I don’t know where they’re going yet, but it can’t be good.
And I discovered details about Nate that I didn’t know.
And learned a term of his—one he shares with Blade. Arting.
I wrote it, having already discovered what it meant, and shuddered.
This part of the book may be too dark. It stays through the first revision, though. What’s going on here is critical to defining why Nate is one of the villains of the story, not one of the dark heroes (who will be coming), and I have to leave it in to come to a full understanding of who Nate and Blade are, and what they’re working towards.
As written, though, it just may be too much.
Anyway, 394 words.
How are your words coming along?
Have been working what feels like forever today, but took a while off to settle in with TalysMana. Got 630 words, and finished the scene.
I know this one is going to require some heavy revision when I get to that point. It all seems plodding to me.
But I did get the foundation set, cleared up Kettan’s understanding of where she’d screwed up, and had a little fun with Will.
The next scene needs to be an interlude. I’m thinking it’s about time to make it an interlude that creates the basis for the other folks I’m bringing into the story, including the Contest character.
(Contest rules go out in just a few minutes, by the way.)
So.
If you’re playing Write A Book With Me, how are you doing?
So now Kettan is in the unenviable position of fixing her awful mistake, and while Will is with her, she’s the only one who can undo the mess she made of everything, and set things right—but without setting everything back the way it was to begin with.
So she has a problem, and no clear solution.
I got 670 words tonight, and enjoyed the writing. (Last week was hideous, and I’m glad to put it behind me.) Tomorrow night, I should be able to get her solution down on paper.
How’s the writing going for you?
Today I wrapped up the second half of the scene “What Kind Of Day Has It Been?” with Kettan discovering WHY everything went wrong. Have posted the scene, and it’ll be out soon to the folks who are caught up on the story, and in sequence to those just getting started.
While I’m pleased with the overall progress through the scene, it came out thin. Even as I was writing it, I could feel the detail it was lacking…but I also had the push to get what mattered in the scene down before it eluded me.
This happens a lot. First draft is a constant tension between catching the ideas and making them real on the page—and making sure they’re beautiful. It’s a bit like chasing butterflies. Every time you stop to admire one for too long, to take in everything that’s wonderful about it, a dozen more slip through your net.
Fortunately, once you have them all on your little garden of butterflies, you get to go back and find all the details you didn’t have time for the first time through.
990 words tonight.
And that was my night.
How are your words coming along?
