When She Calls, I add more words ;).

[marfisk]

My new words only reflect for today, but I've been doing quite a bit of work on When She Calls as you can tell by comparing to my previous total. I'm afraid this story may be more depressing even than Bring Out Your Dead, if in a completely different way. However, Andon continues to learn not only that he should have taken responsibility for what he was supposed to be doing, but that he cannot change the future or the past even if he does take responsibility. The gods and the dead care little that he's recognized his poor decisions as the reason for his family's horrible death nor will his careful attention change the fact that his sister is dying as well. Still, at this point he's almost too responsible and good. No problem. He just needs to remember that the last time he went to the goddess for help, she turned him away at the door. That'll properly realign his focus in the wrong direction :). Isn't being the architect of the universe grand? And to think, all his suffering, all his pain, is just to make him into the willing victim of an assassin in book two. Writing is very weird :).

Can you tell I'm just glad the words are coming when I want them to? This might not be the end of today's words, but I have some edits to do and some time to spend with my family so thought I'd drop this in now and let later take care of itself.

And stats:
New Words: 655 words
58 scenes
27 complete - 47% of the novel
31 Scenes remain
42421 Remaining word count
79368 Estimated length - with an average of 1368 words per scene.
36947 Current Total

Comments

[marfisk]

LOL, yeah, I guess that did sound bad. It's complex, it's cultural, and it's religious. Like all my novels, no matter how traumatic, this one will end with the characters achieving some sort of peace...the surviving ones at least.

Eep! I've become Disney!

[eimarra]

This is Disney? A world where everyone accepts a goddess with assassins who work for her?

/me boggles

[marfisk]

Umm, maybe not that part :). Actually, I was thinking in terms of knocking off characters' parents either early in the book or before it starts. This will be my third (?) novel with dead parents before the book is half over.

[eimarra]

AH! cf: Nemo, Bambi, and the like. I thought you meant the happily ever aftering.

[marfisk]

Nah, that's my own twisted optimism coming into play :D.