Today’s word count: 1455
Cumulative Write-a-thon word count: 31426
Day 14 and still going strong! (Please, feel free to reward my persistence with a pledge at the Write-a-thon page! :D) I didn’t quite make my word count today, though that’s more because I really need to go to bed soon (so I can wake up in time for kung fu in the morning) and not because I’m actually at a place where I really want to stop.
It’s all feeling adventure-y at the moment, and I feel like I’ve had a little humor today. Which is odd, since I haven’t had much funny up until now. But then again, a little funny is necessary; I don’t like it when a story is nothing but grim.
I’m trying something a little different this time, in that I’m making notes in previous chapters as I write. As things develop I’ll find scenes that need to be changed or modified or added; before I just tried to hand write the occasional note about it. Hopefully this will work a little better.
I’m also still trying to figure out how I’m ultimately going to put this story together. Right now I’m just writing it all out in chronological order, but I think ultimately it would be better to rearrange things a little bit. I’m just not sure how, yet. And I’m thinking probably some of the stuff I wrote about Hob’s (the main character) childhood is way more detailed than it needs to be, so streamlining that should help too.
Having so much fun!
Favorite sentence three sentences I’ve written today: “You’re not crying. Or screaming. Those are the reactions I’ve seen most often.”
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