We had a great long weekend, with Brigid and Nick joining us Thursday afternoon through Sunday afternoon. Did some wedding planning (well, I did wedding cake and wedding reception dinner tasting, Brigid and Lisa did the wedding planning). Always great to have the kids here. I know Nick got some words in, and I got […]
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Novel Dare – Day 22
First Report (1:27 PM) – Overall I guess I can’t complain, though I will. I managed a bit over 2K words this morning, which gets me up to nearly 37,000 words for the whole. But I admit that the work today was difficult in an odd way. I have a plan for where I want […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 21
Congrats to Lisa on cresting the 50K mark! You just can’t beat her, you know? # Morning (7:00 AM) – It was a good morning, with just over 1,400 words logged. The main character has gotten himself fully ensnared, and it looks bad for him. Wonder how he’ll get out of this one? On a […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 20
Morning (7:04) – Picked up a good 1,098 words this AM. Not Silverthornian, but I’m not complaining. the main character is in peril, and a plan has been launched to save him even if he doesn’t quite know it. Tiny plot obstacle will need to be overcome here at my next sitting, but it _should_ […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 19
Morning (7:13) – Managed an official 959 morning words via the Microsoft Word judge. The second character, Kinji Hall, takes a step back and ties into her support infrastructure in the form of a night out with a best friend. she’s not feeling good about something, and the friend is going to help her see […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 18
So I picked up 2,610 words today, coulda/shoulda done better, but I’m not going to complain. Story is still moving, and I know pretty much where we’re going starting in the morning–which should portend good progress tomorrow, too. This was a milestone day, too, as we crossed 30,000 words for the package.
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 17
Five tough hours, only about 300 words or so in productive moving forward. I have done a lot of thinking through motivations of the “big bad guys” here today, though. The problem here stemmed from me asking myself a fairly simple “what if” question about an AI element of the world I’m creating. The answer […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 15
Managed a hair’s breadth less than a thousand words this morning, the good news and bad news is that a lot of this was an expository dump of story infrastructure in almost outline level detail. It’s bad news in that I’ll need to go back and expand it out–present it in better and more interesting […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 14
Just over 800 words this morning, which meets my minimum expectation. I spent much of the morning fleshing in a little of the details of recent pages, which expanded word count in a good way, but I feel like I’m shying back from the next big movement of the story. We’ll see what tomorrow brings. […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 13
The main character finds a way to deepen his plot twist, and the second lead gains a fresher life (to me anyway). This will be helpful as we move into the end game. The third character waits in the wings, nearly ready to play his part. This is getting fun again. # Just over 1200 […]
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